Hello all, I was lying awake in bed last night, running through dances in my mind, and put together the following. It's a fairly straightforward dance, so I'm curious if it already exists in the collected oeuvre Improper A1 Neighbor Balance and Swing A2 Gents Left allemande 1.5x Pass partner by R for 1/2 hey B1 Partner Balance and Swing B2 Ladies Chain across the set Left Hand Star 1x Those balance and swings could easily be replaced with gypsy meltdowns, as the right shoulder is available in both cases. That's not really enough to make it a different dance in my opinion, so there are a couple of permutations this may already exist in. Thoughts? On a different note, I have vague memories of dancing a dance with a figure similar to contra corners, but instead of coming back to partners by the right in the middle, the active couple slide past each other and interact with both lines of dancers. I'll try describing it as a sequence of interactions below In a triplet, with couples (A 1), (B 2), (C 3) where letters are gents and numbers ladies A 1 2 B C 3 2 & B pull by R 2 & 1 allemande L while B & C allemande L 2 & A allemande R while B & 3 allemande R 2 & B slide past each other 2 & 3 allemande L while B & A allemande L 2 & C allemande R while B & 1 allemande R It possibly ended with B & 2 doing a balance and swing in the middle, or maybe everyone doing a balance and swing (although C and 1 will be facing away from their partners). I feel like it's a lot of motion, and might even require a non-square tune? Something like Fleur de Mandragore that adds just a tiny bit extra to a phrase (in Fleur's case, a measure of 3/2 in the A2) Is that ringing any bells for folks? I may have to try to write this as a dance to excise the sequence from my head. I put a lot more dance choreography stuff up on facebook, so feel free to drop me a line off-list if you'd like even more of these random thoughts. Thanks all! You'll know if my account is ever hacked, my e-mails will become a lot more concise :-) -- Luke Donev http://www.lukedonev.com Luke.Donev(a)gmail.com _______________________________________________ Callers mailing list Callers(a)sharedweight.net http://www.sharedweight.net/mailman/listinfo/callers