15 Jan
2025
15 Jan
'25
5:23 p.m.
Hello,
I've got a circle mixer that I collected 15-20 years ago. The caller may
have been Becky Hill, maybe not. It's for a 32-bar waltz. I'm searching for
the title and author.
Starts with a ring of couples all facing the center:
A1 Balance forward & back, roll away (ladies/robins moving in front from
Left to Right), Repeat
A2 Repeat twice more
B1 As couples, face center connected by usual hands (gents/larks right,
ladies/robins left). Balance while turning away back (together), then
(letting go) turn symmetrically away to face out and take other hands.
Balance away and together, turn symmetrically away to face each other
B2 Take the ballroom position, take two waltz steps (step, close, step,
close) into circle, then two steps out, then free waltz four waltz steps,
ending by unfolding to reform a circle.
Thanks for whatever help you can provide!
Jerome Grisanti
Jerome Grisanti
660-528-0858
http://www.jeromegrisanti.com
"Whatever you do, or dream you can, begin it. Boldness has genius and power
and magic in it." --Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
16 Jan
16 Jan
5:10 p.m.
Maybe several persons composed this at various times
On Thu, Jan 16, 2025 at 2:27 PM Jim Thaxter via Contra Callers <
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“Dance A While” from about 1968 says Oslo Waltz is a
Scottish-English
Family Waltz. This type of family waltz folk dance is found in almost every
European country.
In other words, it’s a folk dance.
On Wed, Jan 15, 2025 at 11:10 PM Sue C. Hulsether via Contra Callers <
contracallers(a)lists.sharedweight.net> wrote:
Hmmm, now I'm curious. I was thinking Family
Waltz was something similar
but different. Probably the reality is that they are all pretty blurred,
with lots of names for lots of variations.
Sch
Sue Hulsether
shulsether(a)mac.com
newdayhoedown(a)icloud.com
www.suehulsether.com
608-632-1267
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On Jan 15, 2025, at 10:47 PM, Jacob or Nancy Bloom via Contra Callers <
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My understanding has been that this is a traditional Danish dance, called
a Familiavalz (which means Family Waltz). Is that incorrect?
Jacob Bloom
On Wed, Jan 15, 2025, 10:22 PM Jerome Grisanti via Contra Callers <
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Wow, ask and you shall receive! Thanks for all
the references and tips!
I actually own several of those sources, books I've skimmed once or twice
but not lately.
I'm calling as the last dance of the evening at a regular series event,
but this particular event also honors a long-time dancer from the
Louisville community who died last summer. Several of us think she would
appreciate the waltz mixer.
On Wed, Jan 15, 2025, 9:31 PM Winston, Alan P. via Contra Callers <
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Posts and Spinners! Nice, Sue. That's
better than my "Travelers" and
"Stayers", which I guess could have been "Visitors and Hosts".
(I have to say I've found this inevitably fragile if you have drunk
people or a lot of kids or just people who don't want to leave the partner
they lined up with, and you can end up with a bunch of Posts who have no
Spinners and a flood of spinners stuck behind someone who isn't traveling.)
-- Alan
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I think I heard Peter Amidon say once something like this: “this dance
doesn’t really have a name, it’s kind of the ubiquitous circle waltz
mixer.” So I call it Ubi Waltz.
However, i have had a few people emphatically tell me it’s called the
Oslo Waltz. It’s possible that some people believe that the Oslo Waltz
has a couples’ waltz for the entire B2.
Author? no clue.
Also, I tend to call this dance a lot with private party gigs and
One-Shot-Deal gigs and even with kids, and I label the two roles: Posts
and Spinners.
Love.This.Dance.
sue
Sue Hulsether
New Day Hoedown LLC
www.suehulsether.com<http://www.suehulsether.com>
newdayhoedown(a)icloud.com
shulsether(a)mac.com
608-632-1267 Cell
P.O. Box 363, Viroqua, WI 54665
On Jan 15, 2025, at 4:24 PM, Don Veino via Contra Callers <
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It's in the NEDM Sashay the Donut book, pg 26 as "Circle Waltz Mixer".
On Wed, Jan 15, 2025 at 5:22 PM Jerome Grisanti via Contra Callers <
contracallers(a)lists.sharedweight.net<mailtolto:
contracallers(a)lists.sharedweight.net>> wrote:
Hello,
I've got a circle mixer that I collected 15-20 years ago. The caller
may have been Becky Hill, maybe not. It's for a 32-bar waltz. I'm searching
for the title and author.
Starts with a ring of couples all facing the center:
A1 Balance forward & back, roll away (ladies/robins moving in front
from Left to Right), Repeat
A2 Repeat twice more
B1 As couples, face center connected by usual hands (gents/larks right,
ladies/robins left). Balance while turning away back (together), then
(letting go) turn symmetrically away to face out and take other hands.
Balance away and together, turn symmetrically away to face each other
B2 Take the ballroom position, take two waltz steps (step, close, step,
close) into circle, then two steps out, then free waltz four waltz steps,
ending by unfolding to reform a circle.
Thanks for whatever help you can provide!
Jerome Grisanti
Jerome Grisanti
660-528-0858
http://www.jeromegrisanti.com<http://www.jeromegrisanti.com/>
"Whatever you do, or dream you can, begin it. Boldness has genius and
power and magic in it." --Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
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3:18 p.m.
“Dance A While” from about 1968 says Oslo Waltz is a Scottish-English
Family Waltz. This type of family waltz folk dance is found in almost every
European country.
In other words, it’s a folk dance.
On Wed, Jan 15, 2025 at 11:10 PM Sue C. Hulsether via Contra Callers <
contracallers(a)lists.sharedweight.net> wrote:
Hmmm, now I'm curious. I was thinking Family
Waltz was something similar
but different. Probably the reality is that they are all pretty blurred,
with lots of names for lots of variations.
Sch
Sue Hulsether
shulsether(a)mac.com
newdayhoedown(a)icloud.com
www.suehulsether.com
608-632-1267
This email sent via mobile device
On Jan 15, 2025, at 10:47 PM, Jacob or Nancy Bloom via Contra Callers <
contracallers(a)lists.sharedweight.net> wrote:
My understanding has been that this is a traditional Danish dance, called
a Familiavalz (which means Family Waltz). Is that incorrect?
Jacob Bloom
On Wed, Jan 15, 2025, 10:22 PM Jerome Grisanti via Contra Callers <
contracallers(a)lists.sharedweight.net> wrote:
Wow, ask and you shall receive! Thanks for all
the references and tips! I
actually own several of those sources, books I've skimmed once or twice but
not lately.
I'm calling as the last dance of the evening at a regular series event,
but this particular event also honors a long-time dancer from the
Louisville community who died last summer. Several of us think she would
appreciate the waltz mixer.
On Wed, Jan 15, 2025, 9:31 PM Winston, Alan P. via Contra Callers <
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Posts and Spinners! Nice, Sue. That's
better than my "Travelers" and
"Stayers", which I guess could have been "Visitors and Hosts".
(I have to say I've found this inevitably fragile if you have drunk
people or a lot of kids or just people who don't want to leave the partner
they lined up with, and you can end up with a bunch of Posts who have no
Spinners and a flood of spinners stuck behind someone who isn't traveling.)
-- Alan
________________________________________
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Sent: Wednesday, January 15, 2025 6:14 PM
To: Don Veino; contracallers(a)lists.sharedweight.net
Subject: [Callers] Re: Searching for Title & Author
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I think I heard Peter Amidon say once something like this: “this dance
doesn’t really have a name, it’s kind of the ubiquitous circle waltz
mixer.” So I call it Ubi Waltz.
However, i have had a few people emphatically tell me it’s called the
Oslo Waltz. It’s possible that some people believe that the Oslo Waltz
has a couples’ waltz for the entire B2.
Author? no clue.
Also, I tend to call this dance a lot with private party gigs and
One-Shot-Deal gigs and even with kids, and I label the two roles: Posts
and Spinners.
Love.This.Dance.
sue
Sue Hulsether
New Day Hoedown LLC
www.suehulsether.com<http://www.suehulsether.com>
newdayhoedown(a)icloud.com
shulsether(a)mac.com
608-632-1267 Cell
P.O. Box 363, Viroqua, WI 54665
On Jan 15, 2025, at 4:24 PM, Don Veino via Contra Callers <
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It's in the NEDM Sashay the Donut book, pg 26 as "Circle Waltz Mixer".
On Wed, Jan 15, 2025 at 5:22 PM Jerome Grisanti via Contra Callers <
contracallers(a)lists.sharedweight.net<mailtolto:
contracallers(a)lists.sharedweight.net>> wrote:
Hello,
I've got a circle mixer that I collected 15-20 years ago. The caller may
have been Becky Hill, maybe not. It's for a 32-bar waltz. I'm searching for
the title and author.
Starts with a ring of couples all facing the center:
A1 Balance forward & back, roll away (ladies/robins moving in front from
Left to Right), Repeat
A2 Repeat twice more
B1 As couples, face center connected by usual hands (gents/larks right,
ladies/robins left). Balance while turning away back (together), then
(letting go) turn symmetrically away to face out and take other hands.
Balance away and together, turn symmetrically away to face each other
B2 Take the ballroom position, take two waltz steps (step, close, step,
close) into circle, then two steps out, then free waltz four waltz steps,
ending by unfolding to reform a circle.
Thanks for whatever help you can provide!
Jerome Grisanti
Jerome Grisanti
660-528-0858
http://www.jeromegrisanti.com<http://www.jeromegrisanti.com/>
"Whatever you do, or dream you can, begin it. Boldness has genius and
power and magic in it." --Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
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15 Jan
15 Jan
11:47 p.m.
My understanding has been that this is a traditional Danish dance, called a
Familiavalz (which means Family Waltz). Is that incorrect?
Jacob Bloom
On Wed, Jan 15, 2025, 10:22 PM Jerome Grisanti via Contra Callers <
contracallers(a)lists.sharedweight.net> wrote:
Wow, ask and you shall receive! Thanks for all the
references and tips! I
actually own several of those sources, books I've skimmed once or twice but
not lately.
I'm calling as the last dance of the evening at a regular series event,
but this particular event also honors a long-time dancer from the
Louisville community who died last summer. Several of us think she would
appreciate the waltz mixer.
On Wed, Jan 15, 2025, 9:31 PM Winston, Alan P. via Contra Callers <
contracallers(a)lists.sharedweight.net> wrote:
Posts and Spinners! Nice, Sue. That's
better than my "Travelers" and
"Stayers", which I guess could have been "Visitors and Hosts".
(I have to say I've found this inevitably fragile if you have drunk
people or a lot of kids or just people who don't want to leave the partner
they lined up with, and you can end up with a bunch of Posts who have no
Spinners and a flood of spinners stuck behind someone who isn't traveling.)
-- Alan
________________________________________
From: Sue C. Hulsether via Contra Callers <
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Sent: Wednesday, January 15, 2025 6:14 PM
To: Don Veino; contracallers(a)lists.sharedweight.net
Subject: [Callers] Re: Searching for Title & Author
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I think I heard Peter Amidon say once something like this: “this dance
doesn’t really have a name, it’s kind of the ubiquitous circle waltz
mixer.” So I call it Ubi Waltz.
However, i have had a few people emphatically tell me it’s called the
Oslo Waltz. It’s possible that some people believe that the Oslo Waltz
has a couples’ waltz for the entire B2.
Author? no clue.
Also, I tend to call this dance a lot with private party gigs and
One-Shot-Deal gigs and even with kids, and I label the two roles: Posts
and Spinners.
Love.This.Dance.
sue
Sue Hulsether
New Day Hoedown LLC
www.suehulsether.com<http://www.suehulsether.com>
newdayhoedown(a)icloud.com
shulsether(a)mac.com
608-632-1267 Cell
P.O. Box 363, Viroqua, WI 54665
On Jan 15, 2025, at 4:24 PM, Don Veino via Contra Callers <
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It's in the NEDM Sashay the Donut book, pg 26 as "Circle Waltz Mixer".
On Wed, Jan 15, 2025 at 5:22 PM Jerome Grisanti via Contra Callers <
contracallers(a)lists.sharedweight.net<mailtolto:
contracallers(a)lists.sharedweight.net>> wrote:
Hello,
I've got a circle mixer that I collected 15-20 years ago. The caller may
have been Becky Hill, maybe not. It's for a 32-bar waltz. I'm searching for
the title and author.
Starts with a ring of couples all facing the center:
A1 Balance forward & back, roll away (ladies/robins moving in front from
Left to Right), Repeat
A2 Repeat twice more
B1 As couples, face center connected by usual hands (gents/larks right,
ladies/robins left). Balance while turning away back (together), then
(letting go) turn symmetrically away to face out and take other hands.
Balance away and together, turn symmetrically away to face each other
B2 Take the ballroom position, take two waltz steps (step, close, step,
close) into circle, then two steps out, then free waltz four waltz steps,
ending by unfolding to reform a circle.
Thanks for whatever help you can provide!
Jerome Grisanti
Jerome Grisanti
660-528-0858
http://www.jeromegrisanti.com<http://www.jeromegrisanti.com/>
"Whatever you do, or dream you can, begin it. Boldness has genius and
power and magic in it." --Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
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10:17 p.m.
Wow, ask and you shall receive! Thanks for all the references and tips! I
actually own several of those sources, books I've skimmed once or twice but
not lately.
I'm calling as the last dance of the evening at a regular series event, but
this particular event also honors a long-time dancer from the Louisville
community who died last summer. Several of us think she would appreciate
the waltz mixer.
On Wed, Jan 15, 2025, 9:31 PM Winston, Alan P. via Contra Callers <
contracallers(a)lists.sharedweight.net> wrote:
Posts and Spinners! Nice, Sue. That's better
than my "Travelers" and
"Stayers", which I guess could have been "Visitors and Hosts".
(I have to say I've found this inevitably fragile if you have drunk people
or a lot of kids or just people who don't want to leave the partner they
lined up with, and you can end up with a bunch of Posts who have no
Spinners and a flood of spinners stuck behind someone who isn't traveling.)
-- Alan
________________________________________
From: Sue C. Hulsether via Contra Callers <
contracallers(a)lists.sharedweight.net>
Sent: Wednesday, January 15, 2025 6:14 PM
To: Don Veino; contracallers(a)lists.sharedweight.net
Subject: [Callers] Re: Searching for Title & Author
BEWARE: This email originated outside of our organization. DO NOT CLICK
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I think I heard Peter Amidon say once something like this: “this dance
doesn’t really have a name, it’s kind of the ubiquitous circle waltz
mixer.” So I call it Ubi Waltz.
However, i have had a few people emphatically tell me it’s called the Oslo
Waltz. It’s possible that some people believe that the Oslo Waltz has a
couples’ waltz for the entire B2.
Author? no clue.
Also, I tend to call this dance a lot with private party gigs and
One-Shot-Deal gigs and even with kids, and I label the two roles: Posts
and Spinners.
Love.This.Dance.
sue
Sue Hulsether
New Day Hoedown LLC
www.suehulsether.com<http://www.suehulsether.com>
newdayhoedown(a)icloud.com
shulsether(a)mac.com
608-632-1267 Cell
P.O. Box 363, Viroqua, WI 54665
On Jan 15, 2025, at 4:24 PM, Don Veino via Contra Callers <
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It's in the NEDM Sashay the Donut book, pg 26 as "Circle Waltz Mixer".
On Wed, Jan 15, 2025 at 5:22 PM Jerome Grisanti via Contra Callers <
contracallers(a)lists.sharedweight.net<mailtolto:
contracallers(a)lists.sharedweight.net>> wrote:
Hello,
I've got a circle mixer that I collected 15-20 years ago. The caller may
have been Becky Hill, maybe not. It's for a 32-bar waltz. I'm searching for
the title and author.
Starts with a ring of couples all facing the center:
A1 Balance forward & back, roll away (ladies/robins moving in front from
Left to Right), Repeat
A2 Repeat twice more
B1 As couples, face center connected by usual hands (gents/larks right,
ladies/robins left). Balance while turning away back (together), then
(letting go) turn symmetrically away to face out and take other hands.
Balance away and together, turn symmetrically away to face each other
B2 Take the ballroom position, take two waltz steps (step, close, step,
close) into circle, then two steps out, then free waltz four waltz steps,
ending by unfolding to reform a circle.
Thanks for whatever help you can provide!
Jerome Grisanti
Jerome Grisanti
660-528-0858
http://www.jeromegrisanti.com<http://www.jeromegrisanti.com/>
"Whatever you do, or dream you can, begin it. Boldness has genius and
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9:26 p.m.
Posts and Spinners! Nice, Sue. That's better than my "Travelers" and
"Stayers", which I guess could have been "Visitors and Hosts".
(I have to say I've found this inevitably fragile if you have drunk people or a lot of
kids or just people who don't want to leave the partner they lined up with, and you
can end up with a bunch of Posts who have no Spinners and a flood of spinners stuck behind
someone who isn't traveling.)
-- Alan
________________________________________
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Sent: Wednesday, January 15, 2025 6:14 PM
To: Don Veino; contracallers(a)lists.sharedweight.net
Subject: [Callers] Re: Searching for Title & Author
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I think I heard Peter Amidon say once something like this: “this dance doesn’t really
have a name, it’s kind of the ubiquitous circle waltz mixer.” So I call it Ubi Waltz.
However, i have had a few people emphatically tell me it’s called the Oslo Waltz. It’s
possible that some people believe that the Oslo Waltz has a couples’ waltz for the entire
B2.
Author? no clue.
Also, I tend to call this dance a lot with private party gigs and One-Shot-Deal gigs and
even with kids, and I label the two roles: Posts and Spinners.
Love.This.Dance.
sue
Sue Hulsether
New Day Hoedown LLC
www.suehulsether.com<http://www.suehulsether.com>
newdayhoedown(a)icloud.com
shulsether(a)mac.com
608-632-1267 Cell
P.O. Box 363, Viroqua, WI 54665
On Jan 15, 2025, at 4:24 PM, Don Veino via Contra Callers
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wrote:
It's in the NEDM Sashay the Donut book, pg 26 as "Circle Waltz Mixer".
On Wed, Jan 15, 2025 at 5:22 PM Jerome Grisanti via Contra Callers
<contracallers@lists.sharedweight.net<mailto:contracallers@lists.sharedweight.net>>
wrote:
Hello,
I've got a circle mixer that I collected 15-20 years ago. The caller may have been
Becky Hill, maybe not. It's for a 32-bar waltz. I'm searching for the title and
author.
Starts with a ring of couples all facing the center:
A1 Balance forward & back, roll away (ladies/robins moving in front from Left to
Right), Repeat
A2 Repeat twice more
B1 As couples, face center connected by usual hands (gents/larks right, ladies/robins
left). Balance while turning away back (together), then (letting go) turn symmetrically
away to face out and take other hands.
Balance away and together, turn symmetrically away to face each other
B2 Take the ballroom position, take two waltz steps (step, close, step, close) into
circle, then two steps out, then free waltz four waltz steps, ending by unfolding to
reform a circle.
Thanks for whatever help you can provide!
Jerome Grisanti
Jerome Grisanti
660-528-0858
http://www.jeromegrisanti.com<http://www.jeromegrisanti.com/>
"Whatever you do, or dream you can, begin it. Boldness has genius and power and magic
in it." --Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
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9:14 p.m.
I think I heard Peter Amidon say once something like this: “this dance doesn’t really
have a name, it’s kind of the ubiquitous circle waltz mixer.” So I call it Ubi Waltz.
However, i have had a few people emphatically tell me it’s called the Oslo Waltz. It’s
possible that some people believe that the Oslo Waltz has a couples’ waltz for the entire
B2.
Author? no clue.
Also, I tend to call this dance a lot with private party gigs and One-Shot-Deal gigs and
even with kids, and I label the two roles: Posts and Spinners.
Love.This.Dance.
sue
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On Jan 15, 2025, at 4:24 PM, Don Veino via Contra
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It's in the NEDM Sashay the Donut book, pg 26 as "Circle Waltz Mixer".
On Wed, Jan 15, 2025 at 5:22 PM Jerome Grisanti via Contra Callers
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Hello,
I've got a circle mixer that I collected 15-20 years ago. The caller may have been
Becky Hill, maybe not. It's for a 32-bar waltz. I'm searching for the title and
author.
Starts with a ring of couples all facing the center:
A1 Balance forward & back, roll away (ladies/robins moving in front from Left to
Right), Repeat
A2 Repeat twice more
B1 As couples, face center connected by usual hands (gents/larks right, ladies/robins
left). Balance while turning away back (together), then (letting go) turn symmetrically
away to face out and take other hands.
Balance away and together, turn symmetrically away to face each other
B2 Take the ballroom position, take two waltz steps (step, close, step, close) into
circle, then two steps out, then free waltz four waltz steps, ending by unfolding to
reform a circle.
Thanks for whatever help you can provide!
Jerome Grisanti
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6:47 p.m.
Hi Alan,
Circle Waltz is in CDM 5 - 1957.
Happy dancing,
John
John Sweeney, Dancer, England john(a)modernjive.com 01233 625 362 & 07802 940 574
http://www.contrafusion.co.uk for Dancing in Kent
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Subject: [Callers] Re: Searching for Title & Author
This is also in the English Folk Dance & Song Society "Community Dances
Manuals", also as "Circle Waltz". I think that's in an early-1960s
volume.
-- Alan
6:03 p.m.
This is also in the English Folk Dance & Song Society "Community Dances
Manuals", also as "Circle Waltz". I think that's in an early-1960s
volume.
-- Alan
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It's in the NEDM Sashay the Donut book, pg 26 as "Circle Waltz Mixer".
On Wed, Jan 15, 2025 at 5:22 PM Jerome Grisanti via Contra Callers
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wrote:
Hello,
I've got a circle mixer that I collected 15-20 years ago. The caller may have been
Becky Hill, maybe not. It's for a 32-bar waltz. I'm searching for the title and
author.
Starts with a ring of couples all facing the center:
A1 Balance forward & back, roll away (ladies/robins moving in front from Left to
Right), Repeat
A2 Repeat twice more
B1 As couples, face center connected by usual hands (gents/larks right, ladies/robins
left). Balance while turning away back (together), then (letting go) turn symmetrically
away to face out and take other hands.
Balance away and together, turn symmetrically away to face each other
B2 Take the ballroom position, take two waltz steps (step, close, step, close) into
circle, then two steps out, then free waltz four waltz steps, ending by unfolding to
reform a circle.
Thanks for whatever help you can provide!
Jerome Grisanti
Jerome Grisanti
660-528-0858
http://www.jeromegrisanti.com
"Whatever you do, or dream you can, begin it. Boldness has genius and power and magic
in it." --Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
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5:58 p.m.
I think that this is a very old traditional dance. I call it the Oslo
Waltz. We do it at the end of every Dance Week at the Ashokan Center.
Great way to say goodbye to everyone after a fabulous week. When people
get back to their partner the band switches to Ashokan Farewell and
everyone free form waltzes with their original partner.
This is how I do it:
Bal and roll away 4x
Holding hands with new Partner - slide into the circle, out of the
circle and let go and spin
Holding hands with same partner - slide out of the circle, into the
circle, etc.
Slide in, Slide in
Sllide out, slide out
Waltz in place in a circle with P 1x
Hold hands in the big circle and repeat from the beginning
Here's a good Youtube video:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1MS0bHEvYyI
Casey Carr
On 1/15/2025 5:23 PM, Jerome Grisanti via Contra Callers wrote:
Hello,
I've got a circle mixer that I collected 15-20 years ago. The caller
may have been Becky Hill, maybe not. It's for a 32-bar waltz. I'm
searching for the title and author.
Starts with a ring of couples all facing the center:
A1 Balance forward & back, roll away (ladies/robins moving in front
from Left to Right), Repeat
A2 Repeat twice more
B1 As couples, face center connected by usual hands (gents/larks
right, ladies/robins left). Balance while turning away back
(together), then (letting go) turn symmetrically away to face out and
take other hands.
Balance away and together, turn symmetrically away to face each other
B2 Take the ballroom position, take two waltz steps (step, close,
step, close) into circle, then two steps out, then free waltz four
waltz steps, ending by unfolding to reform a circle.
Thanks for whatever help you can provide!
Jerome Grisanti
Jerome Grisanti
660-528-0858
http://www.jeromegrisanti.com
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5:56 p.m.
Hi Jerome,
I have been dancing and calling it for fifty years. We just call it the
Circle Waltz. You can see it in this video:
https://youtu.be/pUjGzhDc9m0
Instructions at:
https://www.barndances.org.uk/detail.php?Title=Circle_Waltz
Happy dancing,
John
John Sweeney, Dancer, England john(a)modernjive.com 01233 625 362 & 07802 940 574
http://www.contrafusion.co.uk for Dancing in Kent
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Hello,
I've got a circle mixer that I collected 15-20 years ago. The caller may have been
Becky Hill, maybe not. It's for a 32-bar waltz. I'm searching for the title and
author.
Starts with a ring of couples all facing the center:
A1 Balance forward & back, roll away (ladies/robins moving in front from Left to
Right), Repeat
A2 Repeat twice more
B1 As couples, face center connected by usual hands (gents/larks right, ladies/robins
left). Balance while turning away back (together), then (letting go) turn symmetrically
away to face out and take other hands.
Balance away and together, turn symmetrically away to face each other
B2 Take the ballroom position, take two waltz steps (step, close, step, close) into
circle, then two steps out, then free waltz four waltz steps, ending by unfolding to
reform a circle.
Thanks for whatever help you can provide!
Jerome Grisanti
Jerome Grisanti
660-528-0858
http://www.jeromegrisanti.com
"Whatever you do, or dream you can, begin it. Boldness has genius and power and magic
in it." --Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
5:24 p.m.
It's in the NEDM Sashay the Donut book, pg 26 as "Circle Waltz Mixer".
On Wed, Jan 15, 2025 at 5:22 PM Jerome Grisanti via Contra Callers <
contracallers(a)lists.sharedweight.net> wrote:
Hello,
I've got a circle mixer that I collected 15-20 years ago. The caller may
have been Becky Hill, maybe not. It's for a 32-bar waltz. I'm searching for
the title and author.
Starts with a ring of couples all facing the center:
A1 Balance forward & back, roll away (ladies/robins moving in front from
Left to Right), Repeat
A2 Repeat twice more
B1 As couples, face center connected by usual hands (gents/larks right,
ladies/robins left). Balance while turning away back (together), then
(letting go) turn symmetrically away to face out and take other hands.
Balance away and together, turn symmetrically away to face each other
B2 Take the ballroom position, take two waltz steps (step, close, step,
close) into circle, then two steps out, then free waltz four waltz steps,
ending by unfolding to reform a circle.
Thanks for whatever help you can provide!
Jerome Grisanti
Jerome Grisanti
660-528-0858
http://www.jeromegrisanti.com
"Whatever you do, or dream you can, begin it. Boldness has genius and
power and magic in it." --Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
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