Hello Callers! Around the breakfast table at Penelope Weinberger’s house this morning, while on tour with Cloud Ten, I came up with this dance. Wrote it with the Sam Bartlett tune Penelope’s Cruise (also written for Penelope Weinberger) in mind. Wondering if it is already out there? Thanks for your input!
Jean Gorrindo
Breakfast at Penelope’s
by Jean Gorrindo
Contra/Improper/Easy-Int/Double Progression
A1 -----------
(8) Partner R-Hand Balance; Square Thru (pull by Partner with Right, Neighbor Left)
(8) Partner Balance & Box the Gnat
A2 -----------
(16) Neighbor balance and swing
B1 -----------
(8) Women allemande Right 1-1/2
(8) Partner swing
B2 -----------
(8) Long lines, forward and back
(8) Women's Chain
Thanks everyone for your replies!
I like the "slide" language approach and plan to work on that for next time.
I'm less fond of the sashay term in this application as, IMHO, contra
dancers don't know what it is. With groups that do a "Roll Away with a Half
Sashay" and even when callers prompt the full sequence, it usually comes
out more like "ROLL AWAY, with a half sashay" (almost inhaling the last
bit). In my experience, overall the language seems to have evolved to more
just saying who rolls whom and the rest is expected, just a part of the
"Roll Away". The instances of a separate Sashay are extremely rare, so
working to get them to understand the sashay itself would be another
incremental step.
BTW, that's why in this recent dance of mine I call the A2 move a slide:
*Feeling Gravity’s Pull – DI – Don Veino 20180710*
A1
Neighbor Gypsy, Swing
A2
Gents Swap Places (passing left) and face out
Gents Loop Left *WHILE* Ladies Slide Left+ (so each move into Partner’s
place)
(inside hands) Ladies Gate the Gents 1x
[+Alternative for the Ladies here: Walk forward on the slight left diagonal
to bounce back into the left hand position next to Partner Gent]
B1
Pass Through across, Partner Swing
B2
Gents pass Left for a Full Hey (EXCEPT Ladies Bounce Back the FIRST time)
More at http://veino.com/blog/?p=2179
Thanks,
Don
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Hi All,
Chrissy Fowler of Belfast Flying Shoes fame has asked me to share with you
the email below. (She's on the SW organizers list but not the callers
list).
This resource she's created is pretty amazing ... enjoy!
Emily
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Hi Shared Weight Organizers List.
I'm writing to share a resource that I recently put together - Dancing in
Literature: A Partial Bibliography. It's posted on the Belfast Flying
Shoes blog (http://belfastflyingshoes.org/dancing-books-for-flying-shoes/)
and is meant to be widely disseminated. As noted on the front page of the
pdf, this project was supported by a dance education grant from the Maine
Arts Commission and by Belfast Flying Shoes, with help from many
contributors.
The word "partial" is key. This is by no means comprehensive, and I'm
making no recommendations about the literary value of any of the books.
But it's a resource, and I'm happy to imagine it being of use.
Cheers,
Chrissy Fowler
I wanted to have a dance where dancers did the dolphin hey figure with a neighbor rather than with a partner so that knowledge could be transferred from one person to another. I wrote this dance with that purpose. This dance borrows much from Seth Tepfer’s “Dolphin Yay!” dance and Andrea Nettleton’s “Porpoiseful Play”. Much thanks to both of these choreographers for their great dances.
Please take a look at this dance and let me know if you know it to be already written in this way. The slice in the beginning can be changed into a double slice (left diagonal forward to new neighbors, left diagonal back to next new neighbors) to make it a double progression, giving more dancers a chance to be the dolphin couple. I called this in Santa Barbara, CA, on 9/30, with the double slice. The dancers gave the dance a thumbs up. Click on these words for a video link. <https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KoYYc4mKzrE>
Thanks,
Jacqui
Iluka Iluka
by Jacqui Grennan
Contra/Improper
A1 -----------
** BECKET ** ID Lady 1 and Gent 2 (AKA “top couple”)
(8) LEFT DIAGONAL - Slice (single progression) or double slice (double progression) to new Neighbors
(8) Lady 1 & Gent 2 (”top couple”) left shoulder ‘round 1-1/2 to face Lady 2
A2 -----------
(14) Dolphin Hey for 3 (6 passes) - Dolphins pass Lady 2 right, end by passing Lady 2 at the same place where the hey was started
(2) Lady 2 cross the set
B1 -----------
(16) Neighbor right shoulder ‘round/Swing
B2 -----------
(6) Circle left 3/4
(10) Partner Swing
