I believe this—Jack Turn Back—is actually called The Cottontail Rag, by Steve Schnur
(sp?)
Sandy Bradley said, of the basket, “No matter how spaghetti armed you get, when I say,
‘break that basket, left hand star,’ forget about it!”
It works with 7 people and 9 people, too. If there are different sizes, the timing gets
off.
As far as “easy” or “hard” I often call this for beginnerish people, especially if there’s
only a few people and I want all to dance. The mistakes on the way to an “aha!” moment can
be priceless.
~Erik Hoffman
Oakland, CA
From: Callers <callers-bounces(a)lists.sharedweight.net> On Behalf Of Mac Mckeever via
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Sent: Sunday, July 7, 2019 7:55 PM
To: Caller's discussion list <callers(a)sharedweight.net>et>; Rich Sbardella
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Subject: Re: [Callers] Two Face Three Dance Inquiry
I have a dance I think is called 'turn back jack' - part if it is 3 face 2 and the
2 dosido with the center dancer in the line of 3. It goes into a basket swing in a way
that is hard to explain - but i will try
I will not relate this to the music because it never seems to be able to keep up - so it
is more free form.
All 5 right star - one person is designate as the Jack
Jack drops out of the star and turns back the other way an chooses someone to swing
The other 3 do a basket swing and end in line of 3 facing the other 2 who were swinging
Who ever ends up in the center of the line of 3 is the Jack next time around
Line of 2 dosido with person in center of line of 3
Center person returns to center of line - but faces out and crosses arms to take hands in
line of 2
other 2 join to make a circle of 5 with the new Jack facing out with arms crossed
Jack raises top arm to make arch and pulls 2 dancers into middle of circle
no one lets go - center dancers raise arms over others to make a basket (yes - this
actually works!)
Basket swing - release to right star and start again.
This is not an easy dance
Mac McKeever
ST Louis
On Sunday, July 7, 2019, 09:43:03 PM CDT, Rich Sbardella via Callers
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wrote:
Folks,
I remember dancing a dance where two people face a line of three. I believe there was a
Dosido as lines of two and three, but I cannot remember the dance.
Does anyone recall such a dance. Are you willing to share it?
Thanks,
Rich
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