21 Oct
2022
21 Oct
'22
10:47 a.m.
Hi all,
I have a question about a variation on Becky Hill's Big Easy, which I see
as:
Big Easy Becky Hill
A1: Bal Ring, Neighbor Swing (often changed to N B+S)
A2: LLFB, Robins Alle 1.5
B1: P B+S
B2: Circle L 3/4, Bal ring, pass thru
An easy variation I like, say, to introduce the courtesy turn early in the
evening and to have the Larks not have to be relegated to keeping basically
in one spot for 7/8ths of the dance, has:
A2. N Prom, robins alle 1.5
B2. Circle L 3/4, bal, cali twirl
It's enough of a change - especially for one of these easy glossary dances
- that I figure someone may have claimed it as a new dance, and was looking
for author and title. I didn't see this variation listed in The Caller's
Box website.
Thanks,
Julian Blechner
he/him
p.s. Folks may know me as "Ron". I've been using a new first name. Pronouns
are the same. I'm slowly trying to change my online presence, get a new
website, etc.
21 Oct
21 Oct
12:13 p.m.
The only change I’d suggest is Robins Allem R since that is the free hand after a swing.
Lisa
Sent from my iPhone
On Oct 21, 2022, at 11:47 AM, Julian Blechner via
Contra Callers <contracallers(a)lists.sharedweight.net> wrote:
Hi all,
I have a question about a variation on Becky Hill's Big Easy, which I see as:
Big Easy Becky Hill
A1: Bal Ring, Neighbor Swing (often changed to N B+S)
A2: LLFB, Robins Alle 1.5
B1: P B+S
B2: Circle L 3/4, Bal ring, pass thru
An easy variation I like, say, to introduce the courtesy turn early in the evening and to
have the Larks not have to be relegated to keeping basically in one spot for 7/8ths of the
dance, has:
A2. N Prom, robins alle 1.5
B2. Circle L 3/4, bal, cali twirl
It's enough of a change - especially for one of these easy glossary dances - that I
figure someone may have claimed it as a new dance, and was looking for author and title. I
didn't see this variation listed in The Caller's Box website.
Thanks,
Julian Blechner
he/him
p.s. Folks may know me as "Ron". I've been using a new first name. Pronouns
are the same. I'm slowly trying to change my online presence, get a new website, etc.
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11:52 p.m.
I wonder if Julian's notation assumes Robins right allemande unless
otherwise specified. I'm only guessing. Julian?
On Fri, Oct 21, 2022, 1:15 PM Lisa Greenleaf via Contra Callers <
contracallers(a)lists.sharedweight.net> wrote:
The only change I’d suggest is Robins Allem R since
that is the free hand
after a swing.
Lisa
Sent from my iPhone
On Oct 21, 2022, at 11:47 AM, Julian Blechner via
Contra Callers <
contracallers(a)lists.sharedweight.net> wrote:
Hi all,
I have a question about a variation on Becky Hill's Big Easy, which I
see as:
Big Easy Becky Hill
A1: Bal Ring, Neighbor Swing (often changed to N B+S)
A2: LLFB, Robins Alle 1.5
B1: P B+S
B2: Circle L 3/4, Bal ring, pass thru
An easy variation I like, say, to introduce the courtesy turn early in
the evening
and to have the Larks not have to be relegated to keeping
basically in one spot for 7/8ths of the dance, has:
A2. N Prom, robins alle 1.5
B2. Circle L 3/4, bal, cali twirl
It's enough of a change - especially for one of these easy glossary
dances -
that I figure someone may have claimed it as a new dance, and was
looking for author and title. I didn't see this variation listed in The
Caller's Box website.
Thanks,
Julian Blechner
he/him
p.s. Folks may know me as "Ron". I've been using a new first name.
Pronouns are the same. I'm slowly trying to change my online presence, get
a new website, etc.
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8:15 a.m.
When I wrote Ashokan Hello, I realized that the left-hand turn was counterintuitive after
a neighbor swing. But I needed it to be left because the next moves are a right-hand
balance and box the gnat. I decided that the forward and back (between the swing and the
turn) canceled the handedness. Obviously if it leads into a two-hand balance (the norm
these days), the turn can be with either hand.
Tony Parkes
Billerica, Mass.
www.hands4.com<http://www.hands4.com/>
New book! Square Dance Calling: An Old Art for a New Century
(available now)
From: Bob via Contra Callers <contracallers(a)lists.sharedweight.net>
Sent: Saturday, October 22, 2022 8:31 AM
To: contracallers(a)lists.sharedweight.net
Subject: [Callers] Re: dance name? - Big Easy variation
Per my card on The Big Easy, it’s an allemande left after the long lines and before the
partner swing. But I’m away from my books for a while and can’t go back to the source. I
bet I got it from The Rosen Hill Collection.
Her note on the dance says ‘This is a very easy version of “Ashokan Hello” by Tony Parkes,
for use as a first contra dance of the evening where newcomers are plentiful.‘
\Bob
On Oct 21, 2022, at 21:53, Jerome Grisanti via Contra Callers
<contracallers@lists.sharedweight.net<mailto:contracallers@lists.sharedweight.net>>
wrote:
I wonder if Julian's notation assumes Robins right allemande unless otherwise
specified. I'm only guessing. Julian?
On Fri, Oct 21, 2022, 1:15 PM Lisa Greenleaf via Contra Callers
<contracallers@lists.sharedweight.net<mailto:contracallers@lists.sharedweight.net>>
wrote:
The only change I’d suggest is Robins Allem R since that is the free hand after a swing.
Lisa
Sent from my iPhone
On Oct 21, 2022, at 11:47 AM, Julian Blechner via
Contra Callers
<contracallers@lists.sharedweight.net<mailto:contracallers@lists.sharedweight.net>>
wrote:
Hi all,
I have a question about a variation on Becky Hill's Big Easy, which I see as:
Big Easy Becky Hill
A1: Bal Ring, Neighbor Swing (often changed to N B+S)
A2: LLFB, Robins Alle 1.5
B1: P B+S
B2: Circle L 3/4, Bal ring, pass thru
An easy variation I like, say, to introduce the courtesy turn early in the evening and to
have the Larks not have to be relegated to keeping basically in one spot for 7/8ths of the
dance, has:
A2. N Prom, robins alle 1.5
B2. Circle L 3/4, bal, cali twirl
It's enough of a change - especially for one of these easy glossary dances - that I
figure someone may have claimed it as a new dance, and was looking for author and title. I
didn't see this variation listed in The Caller's Box website.
Thanks,
Julian Blechner
he/him
p.s. Folks may know me as "Ron". I've been using a new first name. Pronouns
are the same. I'm slowly trying to change my online presence, get a new website,
etc.
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11:19 a.m.
I have a couple of Tony's books, but I just checked, and not the one
containing Ashoken Hello. I'd be curious the choreo for that.
I've heard a few callers call The Big Easy, and most recently it was Liz
Nelson, locally, early in an evening with a gaggle of new dancers, and she
prompted it with the allemande Right.
The one on The Caller's Box has it as a Left.
I guess the other issue, which, now that I'm thinking about L vs R in
details, is that from Robins role, an alle R puts it at 38-40 beats of
clockwise rotation, which 26-28 beats is consecutively.
Hm.
Changing the alle to a DoSiDo solves that, keeps the timing and keeps it as
glossary moves, and flows well from a promade.(alts: pass thru across +
twirl, or R+L Thru)
A1: N B+S
A2: N Prom, Robins DSD 1.5x
B1: P B+S
B2: Circle L 3/4, Bal, Cali Twirl
This dance searched brings up Yoyo Zhou's "Larks in the Afternoon"
A1: same
A2: Larks Alle L 1.5x, Robins DSD 1x
B1: same
B2: same
And also is similar to Linda Leslie's Berlin Contra:
A1: same
A2: LLFB, Robins DSD 1.5
B1: same
B2: Bal Ring, 2s Arch, 1s Dive
(Essentially, the Big Easy but Robins DSD. Now I'm curious which dance came
first?)
And of course, Diane Silver's Easy Peasy:
A1: same
A2: LLFB, Larks Alle L 1.5
B1: same
B2: Circle, bal, cali.
Adding in a chain and/or a star and dropping the promenade and I have at
least a dozen other dances in my box. (Appetizer, Push the Button, Too Hot
To Trot, Simplicity Swing, Spend Some Time Together, Harmony Supper Line,
Dick & Mary's Departure, Baby Rose, et al)
... but this niche of "simple dance with a courtesy turn, one role doesn't
stay mostly in one spot, no star, no chain" is something I know I've looked
for programming gigs and left wanting.
I'll leave this thread going as more callers see it and have dances to
think of. I may temprarily dub the DSD version "The Big Hello".
-Julian
On Sat, Oct 22, 2022, 9:16 AM Tony Parkes via Contra Callers <
contracallers(a)lists.sharedweight.net> wrote:
When I wrote Ashokan Hello, I realized that the
left-hand turn was
counterintuitive after a neighbor swing. But I needed it to be left because
the next moves are a right-hand balance and box the gnat. I decided that
the forward and back (between the swing and the turn) canceled the
handedness. Obviously if it leads into a two-hand balance (the norm these
days), the turn can be with either hand.
Tony Parkes
Billerica, Mass.
www.hands4.com
New book! Square Dance Calling: An Old Art for a New Century
(available now)
*From:* Bob via Contra Callers <contracallers(a)lists.sharedweight.net>
*Sent:* Saturday, October 22, 2022 8:31 AM
*To:* contracallers(a)lists.sharedweight.net
*Subject:* [Callers] Re: dance name? - Big Easy variation
Per my card on The Big Easy, it’s an allemande left after the long lines
and before the partner swing. But I’m away from my books for a while and
can’t go back to the source. I bet I got it from The Rosen Hill Collection.
Her note on the dance says ‘This is a very easy version of “Ashokan Hello”
by Tony Parkes, for use as a first contra dance of the evening where
newcomers are plentiful.‘
\Bob
On Oct 21, 2022, at 21:53, Jerome Grisanti via Contra Callers <
contracallers(a)lists.sharedweight.net> wrote:
I wonder if Julian's notation assumes Robins right allemande unless
otherwise specified. I'm only guessing. Julian?
On Fri, Oct 21, 2022, 1:15 PM Lisa Greenleaf via Contra Callers <
contracallers(a)lists.sharedweight.net> wrote:
The only change I’d suggest is Robins Allem R since that is the free hand
after a swing.
Lisa
Sent from my iPhone
On Oct 21, 2022, at 11:47 AM, Julian Blechner via
Contra Callers <
contracallers(a)lists.sharedweight.net> wrote:
Hi all,
I have a question about a variation on Becky Hill's Big Easy, which I
see as:
Big Easy Becky Hill
A1: Bal Ring, Neighbor Swing (often changed to N B+S)
A2: LLFB, Robins Alle 1.5
B1: P B+S
B2: Circle L 3/4, Bal ring, pass thru
An easy variation I like, say, to introduce the courtesy turn early in
the evening
and to have the Larks not have to be relegated to keeping
basically in one spot for 7/8ths of the dance, has:
A2. N Prom, robins alle 1.5
B2. Circle L 3/4, bal, cali twirl
It's enough of a change - especially for one of these easy glossary
dances -
that I figure someone may have claimed it as a new dance, and was
looking for author and title. I didn't see this variation listed in The
Caller's Box website.
Thanks,
Julian Blechner
he/him
p.s. Folks may know me as "Ron". I've been using a new first name.
Pronouns are the same. I'm slowly trying to change my online presence, get
a new website, etc.
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11:21 a.m.
... and I was on my old gmail. I'll fix that sometime, promise.
-Julian
On Sat, Oct 22, 2022, 12:20 PM Ron Blechner via Contra Callers <
contracallers(a)lists.sharedweight.net> wrote:
I have a couple of Tony's books, but I just
checked, and not the one
containing Ashoken Hello. I'd be curious the choreo for that.
I've heard a few callers call The Big Easy, and most recently it was Liz
Nelson, locally, early in an evening with a gaggle of new dancers, and she
prompted it with the allemande Right.
The one on The Caller's Box has it as a Left.
I guess the other issue, which, now that I'm thinking about L vs R in
details, is that from Robins role, an alle R puts it at 38-40 beats of
clockwise rotation, which 26-28 beats is consecutively.
Hm.
Changing the alle to a DoSiDo solves that, keeps the timing and keeps it
as glossary moves, and flows well from a promade.(alts: pass thru across +
twirl, or R+L Thru)
A1: N B+S
A2: N Prom, Robins DSD 1.5x
B1: P B+S
B2: Circle L 3/4, Bal, Cali Twirl
This dance searched brings up Yoyo Zhou's "Larks in the Afternoon"
A1: same
A2: Larks Alle L 1.5x, Robins DSD 1x
B1: same
B2: same
And also is similar to Linda Leslie's Berlin Contra:
A1: same
A2: LLFB, Robins DSD 1.5
B1: same
B2: Bal Ring, 2s Arch, 1s Dive
(Essentially, the Big Easy but Robins DSD. Now I'm curious which dance
came first?)
And of course, Diane Silver's Easy Peasy:
A1: same
A2: LLFB, Larks Alle L 1.5
B1: same
B2: Circle, bal, cali.
Adding in a chain and/or a star and dropping the promenade and I have at
least a dozen other dances in my box. (Appetizer, Push the Button, Too Hot
To Trot, Simplicity Swing, Spend Some Time Together, Harmony Supper Line,
Dick & Mary's Departure, Baby Rose, et al)
... but this niche of "simple dance with a courtesy turn, one role doesn't
stay mostly in one spot, no star, no chain" is something I know I've looked
for programming gigs and left wanting.
I'll leave this thread going as more callers see it and have dances to
think of. I may temprarily dub the DSD version "The Big Hello".
-Julian
On Sat, Oct 22, 2022, 9:16 AM Tony Parkes via Contra Callers <
contracallers(a)lists.sharedweight.net> wrote:
When I wrote Ashokan Hello, I realized that the
left-hand turn was
counterintuitive after a neighbor swing. But I needed it to be left because
the next moves are a right-hand balance and box the gnat. I decided that
the forward and back (between the swing and the turn) canceled the
handedness. Obviously if it leads into a two-hand balance (the norm these
days), the turn can be with either hand.
Tony Parkes
Billerica, Mass.
www.hands4.com
New book! Square Dance Calling: An Old Art for a New Century
(available now)
*From:* Bob via Contra Callers <contracallers(a)lists.sharedweight.net>
*Sent:* Saturday, October 22, 2022 8:31 AM
*To:* contracallers(a)lists.sharedweight.net
*Subject:* [Callers] Re: dance name? - Big Easy variation
Per my card on The Big Easy, it’s an allemande left after the long lines
and before the partner swing. But I’m away from my books for a while and
can’t go back to the source. I bet I got it from The Rosen Hill Collection.
Her note on the dance says ‘This is a very easy version of “Ashokan
Hello” by Tony Parkes, for use as a first contra dance of the evening where
newcomers are plentiful.‘
\Bob
On Oct 21, 2022, at 21:53, Jerome Grisanti via Contra Callers <
contracallers(a)lists.sharedweight.net> wrote:
I wonder if Julian's notation assumes Robins right allemande unless
otherwise specified. I'm only guessing. Julian?
On Fri, Oct 21, 2022, 1:15 PM Lisa Greenleaf via Contra Callers <
contracallers(a)lists.sharedweight.net> wrote:
The only change I’d suggest is Robins Allem R since that is the free hand
after a swing.
Lisa
Sent from my iPhone
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On Oct 21, 2022, at 11:47 AM, Julian Blechner via
Contra Callers <
contracallers(a)lists.sharedweight.net> wrote:
Hi all,
I have a question about a variation on Becky Hill's Big Easy, which I
see as:
Big Easy Becky Hill
A1: Bal Ring, Neighbor Swing (often changed to N B+S)
A2: LLFB, Robins Alle 1.5
B1: P B+S
B2: Circle L 3/4, Bal ring, pass thru
An easy variation I like, say, to introduce the courtesy turn early in
the evening
and to have the Larks not have to be relegated to keeping
basically in one spot for 7/8ths of the dance, has:
A2. N Prom, robins alle 1.5
B2. Circle L 3/4, bal, cali twirl
It's enough of a change - especially for one of these easy glossary
dances -
that I figure someone may have claimed it as a new dance, and was
looking for author and title. I didn't see this variation listed in The
Caller's Box website.
Thanks,
Julian Blechner
he/him
p.s. Folks may know me as "Ron". I've been using a new first name.
Pronouns are the same. I'm slowly trying to change my online presence, get
a new website, etc.
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23 Oct
23 Oct
10:53 a.m.
Not on The Caller's Box, but, I realized this morning:
A1 Reel, by Chris Weiller:
Becket:
A1: Circle Left 3/4, Balance, Partner Cal Twirl
A2: New Neighbour Balance & Swing
B1: R&L Thru, Ladies RHT 3/2
B2: Partner Balance & Swing
Another similar dance, which I had forgotten I had written and hadn't
published a variation Turtle Twirl, which I had written down as a variation
on A1 Reel:
A1: N B+S
A2: Pass Thru Across, N Cali Twirl, Robins Alle R 1.5x
B1: P B+S
B2: Circle L 3/4, Bal Ring, P Cali Twirl
is the one I originally shared "new"?
Likely, I'll keep the version in my box because it serves a different
purpose. I suppose every caller has to make decisions on what's a variation
and what's in their box!
-Julian
On Sat, Oct 22, 2022 at 12:21 PM Julian Blechner <
juliancallsdances(a)gmail.com> wrote:
... and I was on my old gmail. I'll fix that
sometime, promise.
-Julian
On Sat, Oct 22, 2022, 12:20 PM Ron Blechner via Contra Callers <
contracallers(a)lists.sharedweight.net> wrote:
I have a couple of Tony's books, but I just
checked, and not the one
containing Ashoken Hello. I'd be curious the choreo for that.
I've heard a few callers call The Big Easy, and most recently it was Liz
Nelson, locally, early in an evening with a gaggle of new dancers, and she
prompted it with the allemande Right.
The one on The Caller's Box has it as a Left.
I guess the other issue, which, now that I'm thinking about L vs R in
details, is that from Robins role, an alle R puts it at 38-40 beats of
clockwise rotation, which 26-28 beats is consecutively.
Hm.
Changing the alle to a DoSiDo solves that, keeps the timing and keeps it
as glossary moves, and flows well from a promade.(alts: pass thru across +
twirl, or R+L Thru)
A1: N B+S
A2: N Prom, Robins DSD 1.5x
B1: P B+S
B2: Circle L 3/4, Bal, Cali Twirl
This dance searched brings up Yoyo Zhou's "Larks in the Afternoon"
A1: same
A2: Larks Alle L 1.5x, Robins DSD 1x
B1: same
B2: same
And also is similar to Linda Leslie's Berlin Contra:
A1: same
A2: LLFB, Robins DSD 1.5
B1: same
B2: Bal Ring, 2s Arch, 1s Dive
(Essentially, the Big Easy but Robins DSD. Now I'm curious which dance
came first?)
And of course, Diane Silver's Easy Peasy:
A1: same
A2: LLFB, Larks Alle L 1.5
B1: same
B2: Circle, bal, cali.
Adding in a chain and/or a star and dropping the promenade and I have at
least a dozen other dances in my box. (Appetizer, Push the Button, Too Hot
To Trot, Simplicity Swing, Spend Some Time Together, Harmony Supper Line,
Dick & Mary's Departure, Baby Rose, et al)
... but this niche of "simple dance with a courtesy turn, one role
doesn't stay mostly in one spot, no star, no chain" is something I know
I've looked for programming gigs and left wanting.
I'll leave this thread going as more callers see it and have dances to
think of. I may temprarily dub the DSD version "The Big Hello".
-Julian
On Sat, Oct 22, 2022, 9:16 AM Tony Parkes via Contra Callers <
contracallers(a)lists.sharedweight.net> wrote:
When I wrote Ashokan Hello, I realized that the
left-hand turn was
counterintuitive after a neighbor swing. But I needed it to be left because
the next moves are a right-hand balance and box the gnat. I decided that
the forward and back (between the swing and the turn) canceled the
handedness. Obviously if it leads into a two-hand balance (the norm these
days), the turn can be with either hand.
Tony Parkes
Billerica, Mass.
www.hands4.com
New book! Square Dance Calling: An Old Art for a New Century
(available now)
*From:* Bob via Contra Callers <contracallers(a)lists.sharedweight.net>
*Sent:* Saturday, October 22, 2022 8:31 AM
*To:* contracallers(a)lists.sharedweight.net
*Subject:* [Callers] Re: dance name? - Big Easy variation
Per my card on The Big Easy, it’s an allemande left after the long lines
and before the partner swing. But I’m away from my books for a while and
can’t go back to the source. I bet I got it from The Rosen Hill Collection.
Her note on the dance says ‘This is a very easy version of “Ashokan
Hello” by Tony Parkes, for use as a first contra dance of the evening where
newcomers are plentiful.‘
\Bob
On Oct 21, 2022, at 21:53, Jerome Grisanti via Contra Callers <
contracallers(a)lists.sharedweight.net> wrote:
I wonder if Julian's notation assumes Robins right allemande unless
otherwise specified. I'm only guessing. Julian?
On Fri, Oct 21, 2022, 1:15 PM Lisa Greenleaf via Contra Callers <
contracallers(a)lists.sharedweight.net> wrote:
The only change I’d suggest is Robins Allem R since that is the free
hand after a swing.
Lisa
Sent from my iPhone
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On Oct 21, 2022, at 11:47 AM, Julian Blechner via
Contra Callers <
contracallers(a)lists.sharedweight.net> wrote:
Hi all,
I have a question about a variation on Becky Hill's Big Easy, which I
see as:
Big Easy Becky Hill
A1: Bal Ring, Neighbor Swing (often changed to N B+S)
A2: LLFB, Robins Alle 1.5
B1: P B+S
B2: Circle L 3/4, Bal ring, pass thru
An easy variation I like, say, to introduce the courtesy turn early in
the evening
and to have the Larks not have to be relegated to keeping
basically in one spot for 7/8ths of the dance, has:
A2. N Prom, robins alle 1.5
B2. Circle L 3/4, bal, cali twirl
It's enough of a change - especially for one of these easy glossary
dances -
that I figure someone may have claimed it as a new dance, and was
looking for author and title. I didn't see this variation listed in The
Caller's Box website.
Thanks,
Julian Blechner
he/him
p.s. Folks may know me as "Ron". I've been using a new first name.
Pronouns are the same. I'm slowly trying to change my online presence, get
a new website, etc.
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7:03 p.m.
In a similar vein, here are three of mine:
Gene’s Genius (1989)
A.1 N B&S
A.2 M AL 1.5, P swing
B.2 RLT, Circle L 3/4, pass thru
B.1 w/new Ns, RH star x1
B.2 w/orig Ns, LH star x1
Heritage Reel (1988)
A.1 N B&S
A.2 LLF&B, M AL 1.5
B.1 P B&S
B.2 Half prom across, W chain
Solstice Special (1991)
A.1 N dosido & swing
A.2 LLF&B, M AL 1.5
B.1 P R shoulder round & swing
B.2 Half prom across, circle L 3/4, pass thru
And for those who were wondering, here’s the original version of Ashokan Hello (1992):
A.1 N RH bal, box gnat, swing
A.2 LLF&B, W AL 1.5
B.1 P RH bal, box gnat, swing
B.2 Circle L 3/4, bal, #2 arch, #1 duck to next
All these are in my book Son of Shadrack, available at hands4.com (Advt.)
Tony Parkes
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Subject: [Callers] Re: dance name? - Big Easy variation
Not on The Caller's Box, but, I realized this morning:
A1 Reel, by Chris Weiller:
Becket:
A1: Circle Left 3/4, Balance, Partner Cal Twirl
A2: New Neighbour Balance & Swing
B1: R&L Thru, Ladies RHT 3/2
B2: Partner Balance & Swing
Another similar dance, which I had forgotten I had written and hadn't published a
variation Turtle Twirl, which I had written down as a variation on A1 Reel:
A1: N B+S
A2: Pass Thru Across, N Cali Twirl, Robins Alle R 1.5x
B1: P B+S
B2: Circle L 3/4, Bal Ring, P Cali Twirl
is the one I originally shared "new"?
Likely, I'll keep the version in my box because it serves a different purpose. I
suppose every caller has to make decisions on what's a variation and what's in
their box!
-Julian
On Sat, Oct 22, 2022 at 12:21 PM Julian Blechner
<juliancallsdances@gmail.com<mailto:juliancallsdances@gmail.com>> wrote:
... and I was on my old gmail. I'll fix that sometime, promise.
-Julian
On Sat, Oct 22, 2022, 12:20 PM Ron Blechner via Contra Callers
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I have a couple of Tony's books, but I just checked, and not the one containing
Ashoken Hello. I'd be curious the choreo for that.
I've heard a few callers call The Big Easy, and most recently it was Liz Nelson,
locally, early in an evening with a gaggle of new dancers, and she prompted it with the
allemande Right.
The one on The Caller's Box has it as a Left.
I guess the other issue, which, now that I'm thinking about L vs R in details, is that
from Robins role, an alle R puts it at 38-40 beats of clockwise rotation, which 26-28
beats is consecutively.
Hm.
Changing the alle to a DoSiDo solves that, keeps the timing and keeps it as glossary
moves, and flows well from a promade.(alts: pass thru across + twirl, or R+L Thru)
A1: N B+S
A2: N Prom, Robins DSD 1.5x
B1: P B+S
B2: Circle L 3/4, Bal, Cali Twirl
This dance searched brings up Yoyo Zhou's "Larks in the Afternoon"
A1: same
A2: Larks Alle L 1.5x, Robins DSD 1x
B1: same
B2: same
And also is similar to Linda Leslie's Berlin Contra:
A1: same
A2: LLFB, Robins DSD 1.5
B1: same
B2: Bal Ring, 2s Arch, 1s Dive
(Essentially, the Big Easy but Robins DSD. Now I'm curious which dance came first?)
And of course, Diane Silver's Easy Peasy:
A1: same
A2: LLFB, Larks Alle L 1.5
B1: same
B2: Circle, bal, cali.
Adding in a chain and/or a star and dropping the promenade and I have at least a dozen
other dances in my box. (Appetizer, Push the Button, Too Hot To Trot, Simplicity Swing,
Spend Some Time Together, Harmony Supper Line, Dick & Mary's Departure, Baby Rose,
et al)
... but this niche of "simple dance with a courtesy turn, one role doesn't stay
mostly in one spot, no star, no chain" is something I know I've looked for
programming gigs and left wanting.
I'll leave this thread going as more callers see it and have dances to think of. I may
temprarily dub the DSD version "The Big Hello".
-Julian
On Sat, Oct 22, 2022, 9:16 AM Tony Parkes via Contra Callers
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When I wrote Ashokan Hello, I realized that the left-hand turn was counterintuitive after
a neighbor swing. But I needed it to be left because the next moves are a right-hand
balance and box the gnat. I decided that the forward and back (between the swing and the
turn) canceled the handedness. Obviously if it leads into a two-hand balance (the norm
these days), the turn can be with either hand.
Tony Parkes
Billerica, Mass.
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Subject: [Callers] Re: dance name? - Big Easy variation
Per my card on The Big Easy, it’s an allemande left after the long lines and before the
partner swing. But I’m away from my books for a while and can’t go back to the source. I
bet I got it from The Rosen Hill Collection.
Her note on the dance says ‘This is a very easy version of “Ashokan Hello” by Tony Parkes,
for use as a first contra dance of the evening where newcomers are plentiful.‘
\Bob
On Oct 21, 2022, at 21:53, Jerome Grisanti via Contra Callers
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wrote:
I wonder if Julian's notation assumes Robins right allemande unless otherwise
specified. I'm only guessing. Julian?
On Fri, Oct 21, 2022, 1:15 PM Lisa Greenleaf via Contra Callers
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The only change I’d suggest is Robins Allem R since that is the free hand after a swing.
Lisa
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On Oct 21, 2022, at 11:47 AM, Julian Blechner via
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Hi all,
I have a question about a variation on Becky Hill's Big Easy, which I see as:
Big Easy Becky Hill
A1: Bal Ring, Neighbor Swing (often changed to N B+S)
A2: LLFB, Robins Alle 1.5
B1: P B+S
B2: Circle L 3/4, Bal ring, pass thru
An easy variation I like, say, to introduce the courtesy turn early in the evening and to
have the Larks not have to be relegated to keeping basically in one spot for 7/8ths of the
dance, has:
A2. N Prom, robins alle 1.5
B2. Circle L 3/4, bal, cali twirl
It's enough of a change - especially for one of these easy glossary dances - that I
figure someone may have claimed it as a new dance, and was looking for author and title. I
didn't see this variation listed in The Caller's Box website.
Thanks,
Julian Blechner
he/him
p.s. Folks may know me as "Ron". I've been using a new first name. Pronouns
are the same. I'm slowly trying to change my online presence, get a new website,
etc.
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