A quick search brought two to light.
Rolling and Tumbling Improper Cis Hinkle
A1. 4,12 Neighbor balance, swing
A2. 8 Long lines forward and gents roll neighbor in front 8 Long lines forward and ladies roll neighbor in front
B1. 8 Ladies allemande R 1½ 8 Partner swing
B2. 8 Ladies chain to neighbor 8 Star L
California Twirlin' by Janet Levatin Duple improper
A1: Balance the ring Partner California Twirl and face back in Balance the ring
Neighbor California Twirl and face back in
A2: Balance the ring
Partner California Twirl and face new neighbors
Swing this new neighbor
B1: Circle left 3/4
Partner swing
B2: Ladies chain with courtesy turn (or another California twirl)
Long lines forward and on the way back…
Neighbor roll away with half sashay: women rolling left
Double progression variation: B2: omit roll away, start dance with next neighbors
Have fun with the rest gang,
Dan Black
Hi All,
In my book of collected dances I have a bunch of
“Don’t knows.” Some have more info, like
“from Kathy Anderson.” In an attempt to get
names and choreographers in one fell swoop, I’m
putting them all here. All help is appreciated!
Don’t Know Yet #0, from ???
Becket
Don’t know
A1 Wmn Allemande Rt 1½; Half Hey (Nb
st Lft sh)
A2 NbrB&S
B1 on Lft Diag: Women
Chain—to Shdw; (w/ Shdw) Across: Right & Left
Thru
B2 LLF&B; Partner
Swing
Don’t Know #1
Improper
Don’t Know
A1 with Nbr, BAL, Bx
Gnat; Star Rt
A2 Circle Lft ¾;
Sw Pt
B1 Mn Pull By with the
Left, Bx Gnat with Nbr; Half Hey, Nbr start Rt
Shoulder
B2 BAL & Sw Nbr
Don’t Know #2
Improper
Don’t Know
A1 BAL with Nbr, Gypsy
(Rt shoulder); Half Hey, Wm start Lft Shoulder
A2 BAL & Sw Nbr
(opposite side)
B1 Wm Gypsy 1½; Sw
Pt
B2 LLF&B; Mn
Gypsy 1½ to progress
Don’t Know #3
Improper
Don’t Know
A1 Nbr BAL & Sw end
in Circle
A2 BAL Ring, Pet Tw to
wave: Pt in Rt, Wm in Cntr Rory O’More BAL,
B1 Mn Al Lft once, Pt
Sw
B2 Circle Lft ¾; Nbr Al
Lft 1½
On an envelope
Don’t Know #4
Improper
Don’t know
A1 DSD Nbr; Sw
Nbr
A2 R&L Thru Acrss;
Star Lft ¾, end in a wave on the Wm’s side Pt in
left, Shdw in Rt
B1 BAL the wave, Al Rt
Shdw; Sw Pt
B2 Circle Lft 1¼; CA
twirl Pt
Don’t Know Yet #5 from Cis Hinkle
Improper
Kathy Anderson
A1 Ones split the Twos
(with hands? Gate?): Mirror DSD (or gate?) to Circle;
BAL the Ring, Pt Rollaway with a Half Sashay Acrss
A2 DSD Nbr to a Wave, Mn
in Center; Ry O’Mr BAL (to put Wm in
center)
B1 Wm Al Lft 1½;
Sw Pt
B2 Prom Pt; Circle
Lft ¾, Twos Arch, Pop the Ones through
From Cis Hinkle at Harvest Moon
Don’t Know from Briefcase #1
Improper
Me?
A1 Ptnella BAL
Twice
A2 BAL the Ring, CA Twril
Pt; Sw Nbr
B1 Mn Al Lft 1½;
Sw Pt
B2 Wm Chain; Half
Hey, Wm start, Rt shoulder
From a green piece of paper, the 2000 Echo Summit dance
schedule. I should email Susan Kevra (the other
caller) and see if she knows about this dance.
Don’t Know Yet From Andy Wilson—June 1,
????
Imp
A1 “Hey”
along lines: Pass Nb Rt, next Lft, 3rd Rt Shoulder Turn,
pass next Left, to
Current
Nbr
A1 w/ Current Nbr,
½ Rt Sh Turn then “Stalk”: Wm crosses, Mn
follows to other
side;
Nb Sw
B1 Circle Lft ¾;
Pt Sw
B2 Star Lft ¾; turn to
face Nbr: BAL, Pull by w/ Rt
Says, Beware to start the “Hey” with the
Right Shoulder. Could that last Balance & Pull By be
with the Left?
Don’t Know Yet From Cis Hinckle @ Harvest
Moon
Improper
A1 BAL & Sw Nbr
A2 LLF&B with Wm
Rolling Away with a Half Sashay (left); LLF&B with
Mn Rolling Away with a Half Sashay (Rt, same Nbr)
B1 Wm Al Rt 1½; Sw
Pt
B2 Wm Chain; Star
Left
Don't Know Yet from Dean Alemain
Becket
A1 Crcl Lft ¾; Nb
Sw
A2 LLF&B; Mn Al Lft
1½
B1 Pt BAL & Sw
B2 Mn Cross (4), Wm Cross
(4); Hands Across Rt Star
Single File
lead to next couple (Mn in lead)
Don’t Know Yet From Gordy Euler—Oct 17,
2012, in Berk
Imp
A1 Bal Ring, w/ Pt, CA
Twirl, turn alone to face in
Bal Ring, w/
Nb, CA Twirl, (I think:) turn alone to face in
A2 Bal Ring, w/ Pt, Ca
Twirl to face new Nb; that New Nb Sw
B1 Circle Lft ¾;
Pt Sw
B2 Wm Chain;
LLF&B w/ Rollaway
(or, I think, LLF&B; Wm Chain /w Rollaway)
Don’t Know Yet from Kathy Anderson @ BDD
9
Improper
Al Olson
A1 (Remember this Nbr)
LLF&B; BAL Towards Nbr One, Back, Roll Away with
Half Sashay
A2 (still in lines)
BALt towards Nbr Two, Away, Sw Nbr Two
B1 Mn Al Lft 1½;
Sw Pt
B2 (with Nbr Two) Star
Lft ¾; Sw Nbr One
From Kathy Anderson at the Brattleboro Dawn Dance, May
29, 2000
Don’t Know Yet From Kathy Anderson @ M.T. #1
Improper
A1 LLF&B w/ Rollaway; Women
Chain
A2 Hey (Wm st Rt sh)
B1 Partner B&S
B2 Circle Left ¾; Neighbor
Swing
Don’t Know Yet From Kathy Anderson @ M.T.
#2
Improper
A1 Star Right; Neighbor Gypsy
A2 Circle Single File Left Half
(still looking at Neighbor Women lead) (4)
Neighbor Gypsy (some more) (4);
Neighbor Swing
B1 Give & Take: Women pull
Partner back
B2 Women Chain; Star Left
Don’t Know Yet From Mavis March 2
2016
Improper
A1 Nbr DSD; Nbr Swing
A2 LLF&B; Wm chain
(to Pt)—end in Ring
B1 Ring Balance, Roll Nbr; Pt
Swing
B2 Circle Lft ¾; Ring
Balance, CA Twirl
Don’t Know Yet From Mike Richardson, MT 2001
#1
Becket
???
A1 Long Lines Forwad
& Back; Circle Left, Slide Lft (R&L T; Circle
Slide, or LLF&B, Circle ½, Slide)
A2 Hey, Wm start, Rt
shoulder
B1 Wm Al Rt ¾ to long
wave in center (4), BAL; Wm back out WHILE Mn Al Rt
with Man to Rt ¾ to long wave, BAL
B2 Mn step forward to Pt:
Sw Pt
Don’t Know Yet from Susan Kevra (I
think)
Becket
A1 Nbr Allemande Rt, Wmn Lft Pull By,
Pt Allemande Rt, Wmn Lft Pull By
A2 Neighbor B&S
B1 Circle Left ¾; Partner
Swing
B2 LLF&B; Women Chain
At least it
was on a blue piece of paper that also had Hey for 40, as
called by S.K.
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Hi All,
In my book of collected dances I have a bunch of "Don't knows." Some have more info, like "from Kathy Anderson." In an attempt to get names and choreographers in one fell swoop, I'm putting them all here. All help is appreciated!
Don't Know Yet #0, from ???
Becket
Don't know
A1 Wmn Allemande Rt 1½; Half Hey (Nb st Lft sh)
A2 NbrB&S
B1 on Lft Diag: Women Chain-to Shdw; (w/ Shdw) Across: Right & Left Thru
B2 LLF&B; Partner Swing
Don't Know #1
Improper
Don't Know
A1 with Nbr, BAL, Bx Gnat; Star Rt
A2 Circle Lft ¾; Sw Pt
B1 Mn Pull By with the Left, Bx Gnat with Nbr; Half Hey, Nbr start Rt Shoulder
B2 BAL & Sw Nbr
Don't Know #2
Improper
Don't Know
A1 BAL with Nbr, Gypsy (Rt shoulder); Half Hey, Wm start Lft Shoulder
A2 BAL & Sw Nbr (opposite side)
B1 Wm Gypsy 1½; Sw Pt
B2 LLF&B; Mn Gypsy 1½ to progress
Don't Know #3
Improper
Don't Know
A1 Nbr BAL & Sw end in Circle
A2 BAL Ring, Pet Tw to wave: Pt in Rt, Wm in Cntr Rory O'More BAL,
B1 Mn Al Lft once, Pt Sw
B2 Circle Lft ¾; Nbr Al Lft 1½
On an envelope
Don't Know #4
Improper
Don't know
A1 DSD Nbr; Sw Nbr
A2 R&L Thru Acrss; Star Lft ¾, end in a wave on the Wm's side Pt in left, Shdw in Rt
B1 BAL the wave, Al Rt Shdw; Sw Pt
B2 Circle Lft 1¼; CA twirl Pt
Don't Know Yet #5 from Cis Hinkle
Improper
Kathy Anderson
A1 Ones split the Twos (with hands? Gate?): Mirror DSD (or gate?) to Circle; BAL the Ring, Pt Rollaway with a Half Sashay Acrss
A2 DSD Nbr to a Wave, Mn in Center; Ry O'Mr BAL (to put Wm in center)
B1 Wm Al Lft 1½; Sw Pt
B2 Prom Pt; Circle Lft ¾, Twos Arch, Pop the Ones through
>From Cis Hinkle at Harvest Moon
Don't Know from Briefcase #1
Improper
Me?
A1 Ptnella BAL Twice
A2 BAL the Ring, CA Twril Pt; Sw Nbr
B1 Mn Al Lft 1½; Sw Pt
B2 Wm Chain; Half Hey, Wm start, Rt shoulder
>From a green piece of paper, the 2000 Echo Summit dance schedule. I should email Susan Kevra (the other caller) and see if she knows about this dance.
Don't Know Yet From Andy Wilson-June 1, ????
Imp
A1 "Hey" along lines: Pass Nb Rt, next Lft, 3rd Rt Shoulder Turn, pass next Left, to
Current Nbr
A1 w/ Current Nbr, ½ Rt Sh Turn then "Stalk": Wm crosses, Mn follows to other
side; Nb Sw
B1 Circle Lft ¾; Pt Sw
B2 Star Lft ¾; turn to face Nbr: BAL, Pull by w/ Rt
Says, Beware to start the "Hey" with the Right Shoulder. Could that last Balance & Pull By be with the Left?
Don't Know Yet From Cis Hinckle @ Harvest Moon
Improper
A1 BAL & Sw Nbr
A2 LLF&B with Wm Rolling Away with a Half Sashay (left); LLF&B with Mn Rolling Away with a Half Sashay (Rt, same Nbr)
B1 Wm Al Rt 1½; Sw Pt
B2 Wm Chain; Star Left
Don't Know Yet from Dean Alemain
Becket
A1 Crcl Lft ¾; Nb Sw
A2 LLF&B; Mn Al Lft 1½
B1 Pt BAL & Sw
B2 Mn Cross (4), Wm Cross (4); Hands Across Rt Star
Single File lead to next couple (Mn in lead)
Don't Know Yet From Gordy Euler-Oct 17, 2012, in Berk
Imp
A1 Bal Ring, w/ Pt, CA Twirl, turn alone to face in
Bal Ring, w/ Nb, CA Twirl, (I think:) turn alone to face in
A2 Bal Ring, w/ Pt, Ca Twirl to face new Nb; that New Nb Sw
B1 Circle Lft ¾; Pt Sw
B2 Wm Chain; LLF&B w/ Rollaway
(or, I think, LLF&B; Wm Chain /w Rollaway)
Don't Know Yet from Kathy Anderson @ BDD 9
Improper
Al Olson
A1 (Remember this Nbr) LLF&B; BAL Towards Nbr One, Back, Roll Away with Half Sashay
A2 (still in lines) BALt towards Nbr Two, Away, Sw Nbr Two
B1 Mn Al Lft 1½; Sw Pt
B2 (with Nbr Two) Star Lft ¾; Sw Nbr One
>From Kathy Anderson at the Brattleboro Dawn Dance, May 29, 2000
Don't Know Yet From Kathy Anderson @ M.T. #1
Improper
A1 LLF&B w/ Rollaway; Women Chain
A2 Hey (Wm st Rt sh)
B1 Partner B&S
B2 Circle Left ¾; Neighbor Swing
Don't Know Yet From Kathy Anderson @ M.T. #2
Improper
A1 Star Right; Neighbor Gypsy
A2 Circle Single File Left Half (still looking at Neighbor Women lead) (4)
Neighbor Gypsy (some more) (4);
Neighbor Swing
B1 Give & Take: Women pull Partner back
B2 Women Chain; Star Left
Don't Know Yet From Mavis March 2 2016
Improper
A1 Nbr DSD; Nbr Swing
A2 LLF&B; Wm chain (to Pt)-end in Ring
B1 Ring Balance, Roll Nbr; Pt Swing
B2 Circle Lft ¾; Ring Balance, CA Twirl
Don't Know Yet From Mike Richardson, MT 2001 #1
Becket
???
A1 Long Lines Forwad & Back; Circle Left, Slide Lft (R&L T; Circle Slide, or LLF&B, Circle ½, Slide)
A2 Hey, Wm start, Rt shoulder
B1 Wm Al Rt ¾ to long wave in center (4), BAL; Wm back out WHILE Mn Al Rt with Man to Rt ¾ to long wave, BAL
B2 Mn step forward to Pt: Sw Pt
Don't Know Yet from Susan Kevra (I think)
Becket
A1 Nbr Allemande Rt, Wmn Lft Pull By, Pt Allemande Rt, Wmn Lft Pull By
A2 Neighbor B&S
B1 Circle Left ¾; Partner Swing
B2 LLF&B; Women Chain
At least it was on a blue piece of paper that also had Hey for 40, as called by S.K.
Anyone know the Title and Author for this dance? Thanks!
A1 Long Lines Fwd and Back
Neighbor Allem Right 1x, Ladies Allem Left 1/2
A2 Balance and Rory twirl past partner
Balance and Rory twirl past partner
B1 Balance and Swing Partner
B2 Circle Left 3/4, Swing Neighbor
Donna Hunt
Hi Everyone
Wanted to know if anyone has dances with days of the week in the title. Could you please share. I could always use more dances with Monday, Friday and Saturday in their tiles.
I have the following:
Monday - Monday Night in Ballard/Monday Night Fever
Friday - Friday Night Fever
Sat. - Saturday Night Line
Need:
Tuesday
Wednesday
Thursday
Sunday
I wanted to put together a gig with a weekly/seasonal theme.
Thanks...
Barbara G
Toms River, NJ
On 2016-11-02 1027, Richard Hart via Callers wrote:
> Any recommendations for a dance on Monday, Nov. 14, a day when the moon
> will be the closest it's been in 70 years? We'll want to celebrate then,
> I'm sure, at the Nelson dance! For a syzygy, if for no other reason!!
>
> A day we'll want to celebrate, I'm sure.
So, I put "moon" in the search box at Antony's site and received a load
of possibilities.
["Antony’s Country Dance Database contains 15299 entries"]
There are two for "celestial", quite a few for "orbit" and three with
"planet" as part of the name, including Planetary Convergences.
http://www.heywood.nl/antony/dances/
"Syzygy" and "perigee" had nil returns. "Eclipse", which really isn't in
this instance, has two.
However,
syzygy contra dance
entered at https://DuckDuckGo.com my go-to search engine (doesn't
bubble-up responses for one thing) gave me a fun entry in an edition of
the newsletter for The Folk Project (not a dance, sorry.)
(For a dance with Laura Winslow and the Big Chaos Band, Jan 2015)
"Consulting their notes and theory, Big Chaos Band contends that
fractals repeat their patterns on every scale. As Winslow calls a hey,
the protons and electrons of the helium molecules do a hey for four.
When Chorus Jig is danced, there are cosmic contra corners among the
celestial bodies. When the ladies allemande with the men orbiting, the
planets orbit around their binary stars and when we line up in threes
for triplets there is a syzygy in the heavens. Beware the black hole as
we collapse into the center along with the butterfly effect created by a
butterfly whirl."
Cheers, John
--
J.D. Erskine
Victoria, BC
Any recommendations for a dance on Monday, Nov. 14, a day when the moon
will be the closest it's been in 70 years? We'll want to celebrate then,
I'm sure, at the Nelson dance! For a syzygy, if for no other reason!!
A day we'll want to celebrate, I'm sure.
Monday by Jim Hemphill
Sent from my iPhone
> On Nov 1, 2016, at 10:59 PM, Maia McCormick via Callers <callers(a)lists.sharedweight.net> wrote:
>
> Wednesdays at Amherst by Ron Blechner?
>
> Wednesdays at Amherst
> Ron T Blechner
> Duple Imp.
>
> A1. Gents RH Chain (8) (to P)
> Gents Gypsy R 1x (8)*
> A2. P Gypsy + Swing (16)
> B1. Circle L ¾ (6)
> NS (10)
> B2. Pass Thru Across, N Cali Twirl (4,4) (to face back in towards Ps)
> LLFB (8)
>
>
>
>> On Tue, Nov 1, 2016 at 10:06 PM, Michael Dyck via Callers <callers(a)lists.sharedweight.net> wrote:
>>> On 16-11-01 06:39 PM, via Callers wrote:
>>> Hi Everyone
>>>
>>> Wanted to know if anyone has dances with days of the week in the title.
>>> Could you please share. I could always use more dances with Monday, Friday
>>> and Saturday in their tiles.
>>>
>>> I have the following:
>>> Monday - Monday Night in Ballard/Monday Night Fever
>>> Friday - Friday Night Fever
>>> Sat. - Saturday Night Line
>>>
>>> Need:
>>> Tuesday
>>> Wednesday
>>> Thursday
>>> Sunday
>>
>> http://www.ibiblio.org/contradance/index/search.php?ti=Tuesday
>> finds about 8 dances with "Tuesday" in the title.
>>
>> Similarly, 3 for Wednesday, ~4 for Thursday, and 11 for Sunday.
>>
>> (And 10 for Monday, 14 for Friday, and ~6 for Saturday.)
>>
>> -Michael
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Barbara G wrote:
> Wanted to know if anyone has dances with days of the week in the title.
Don’t know if you can use a dance without a partner swing, but there’s:
Saturday Night Reel (by Herbie Gaudreau)
LLFB, swing N (or start with B&S N)
2WCh, 1/2 prom across
Repeat 2WCh, 1/2 prom
Star R, star L
Tony Parkes
Billerica, Mass.
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I like to say, at the end of a dance and moving on to the next one, "Ask someone else to dance... Or let them ask you!"
Ben Allbrandt
---- James Saxe via Callers <callers(a)lists.sharedweight.net> wrote:
> I like to say things to promote the custom of frequent partner
> changes. So after a dance, I would say at least
>
> Thank your partner and find a partner for the next contra
> [or "... for a waltz" or whatever is next].
>
> and more likely
>
> ... and find someone new for ...
>
> or
>
> ... switch around ...
>
> and perhaps at some point early in the evening
>
> ... and as usual [or "as is our custom"*] find someone new ...
>
> [*When I first heard "as is our custom" said by Ted Sannella, it
> struck me that by injecting those four words, said in a relaxed
> tone and taking about two seconds to say, he'd gotten the point
> across as effectively, and far more pleasantly, than somebody could
> with a two-minute harangue on the subject.]
>
> To be clear, if I see some dancers (new or experienced) who came as
> a couple and seem glued together, I will not by any means attempt
> to *pressure* them to separate and dance with different partners.
> But I do want to empower people to feel comfortable mingling. In
> particular, I don't want dancers who are new and unfamiliar with
> the prevailing customs to have the agony of wondering
>
> "If I don't keep this partner for the next dance, will (s)he
> think I didn't like dancing with her/him?"
>
> or conversely
>
> "My partner just thanked me and then ran off to dance with
> someone else. Did I do something wrong?"
>
> Also, if new dancers are worried about imposing their klutziness on
> experienced dancers, they will perhaps be less timid about making
> or accepting an offer to dance if they understand that it's only
> expected to be for one dance.
>
> And finally, if someone asks a member of one of those glued-together
> couples for a dance, I hope that even if they say "No", awareness
> that most people are mingling will keep them from being affronted
> by the invitation.
>
> --Jim
>
> On Oct 31, 2016, at 7:28 AM, Ron Blechner wrote:
> > I'd like to hear some examples of things you as a caller (or you as an organizer encouraging callers) say on the mic during a dance to promote positive dance values.
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