While picturing this I was reminded of a Dale Wilson dance that also has a graceful inversion: https://www.ibiblio.org/contradance/thecallersbox/dance.php?id=7217 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 On Mon, Nov 17, 2025, 2:49 PM Sam Whited via Contra Callers < contracallers(a)lists.sharedweight.net&gt; wrote:

Unfamiliar with original choreography, can't answer this question, but was intrigued to work through it, and I think it makes sense for it to be more than 8 counts, but some things confuse me. Anyway, assuming duple minor improper: CL 1x (unusual!), neighbor swing on side [all on original side but progressed] Larks by the left, swing partner (robins on home side, larks on partner's side) Larks all L to other side, swing partner Long lines, balance and petronella one place to the right (moves the robins to their partner's side so everybody is progressed and crossed over). Cast out into single promenade; since you're starting progressed but crossed over, lark has to go five places around the outside to get to progressed place and side. Robin, as I'm picturing it anyway, has to go three places, so I think that's lark genuinely takes time to turn out over left shoulder and cross the set (which feels like 6-8 beats just to cross the set) and continues around while robin pulls left shoulder back and follows. So I don't have any problem with that progression taking up a whole B. [But when I thought that through I thought "Larks cast " and I see you say "Lark 1 cast", and I don't understand how that would work in a standard duple minor progression.) I'm a little suspicious it's not a duple minor improper because of the circle-to-neighbor-swing needing to be 1x if it's improper. I haven't worked through where everybody is if it's a Becket but that seems unlikely because can you expect anybody to know who the 1s are in a Becket? If it genuinely is only the #1 Lark, I'm wondering if this is actually a four face four, which spends most of its time working just with the neighbor couple that each couple is facning, but at the end the lark at one end of the line of four peels out to the lead the line to facing a new foursome, a la Devil's Backbone. -- Alan ________________________________________ From: Sam Whited via Contra Callers &lt;contracallers(a)lists.sharedweight.net&gt; Sent: Monday, November 17, 2025 11:48 AM To: Shared Weight Contra Callers Subject: [Callers] Who wrote "Leave 'em Standing"? BEWARE: This email originated outside of our organization. DO NOT CLICK links or attachments unless you recognize the sender and know the content is safe. I've got a variant of Leave 'em Hanging by Luke Donforth called "Leave Them Standing" ("Leave 'em Standing?"), does anyone know who wrote this? I don't recall where I got the card so it may be someone local, or maybe it's in wider circulation? I also feel like I'm missing something in the B2 since the same thing takes 8 beats in the original dance. If you do have this card does it match what I've got here? Thanks, Sam A1. Circle left; N. swing A2. Larks by the left, P. swing B1. Long lines; balance and petronella B2. Lark 1 cast CCW, single promenade ring out and around to next neighbors -- Sam Whited sam(a)samwhited.com _______________________________________________ Contra Callers mailing list -- contracallers(a)lists.sharedweight.net To unsubscribe send an email to contracallers-leave(a)lists.sharedweight.net