Hi Maia,
Not sure if you've already run this one (I'm behind on e-mails).
Personally, I would caution that getting dancers out of the habit of
Rorying to the right first might be hard.
I have in my box a similar dance, called Wildabeasts (that I wrote in
2017), that replaces your A2 with a
(8) Raven's Chain across
(4) Circle RIGHT 1/2, pass through
(4) Pass through to an Ocean Wave
That sets you up with your partner in your right hand, instead of your left
hand.
I will say, that while I wrote it and it's in my box, I've never actually
called it (along with about 150 other compositions).
As for dances I have actually called.
There's a variation of Donna Hunt's "This Could be the Start of Something"
http://donnahuntcaller.com/dancesByDonna.html
that starts with the Down the Hall, and has the ravens slide all the way to
their partner for a balance and swing instead of ravens allemande->partner
swing.
Erik Hoffman's "Missing Duck" has an A2 Rory, and a B2 P B&S, as does
Fidgety Feet/Fickle Finger of Fate by Mark Richardson/Don Lennartson.
None of those three have a neighbor swing though. For that, I'd turn to
Bill Olson's "Dancing With Amy"
Becket-CW
A1 -----------
(8) Circle Left 3/4
(8) Neighbor swing
A2 -----------
(8) left diagonal Ladies’ chain across to your shadow
(8) left hand star (to a long wavy line with your partner)
B1 -----------
(8) Balance and slide to the right (as in Rory O’More)
(8) Balance and slide to the right (as in Rory O’More)
B2 -----------
(16) Partner balance and swing
On Thu, Mar 28, 2019 at 11:14 PM Maia McCormick via Callers <
callers(a)lists.sharedweight.net> wrote:
> I wanted a closer with a Rory O'Moore and a partner balance and swing.
> This is what I came up with. Does this (or a variant thereof) already exist?
>
> *Wave Goodbye* (becket L)
> A1: (on the L diagonal) give and take N (to lark's side)
> N swing
> A2: ravens chain (to P)
> ravens alle. R 1 1/2 to short waves (LH to N, ravens by R)
> B1: bal. L and R, slide L (short waves, RH to N, larks by L)
> bal. R and L, slide R, ravens sliding extra to pass each other
> B2: P b&s
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Keep calling. My experience has been that techo music has plenty of
beat and no phrasing. So dancers don't know when to stop the current
figure and start the next one. Some figures like circles, stars and
lines forward and back have a kind of natural timing so dances with
those figures work well. Some other figures such as heys, chains and
swings are less well defined as far as timing goes, and dancers tend to
rush heys and chains and go long on swings. So the dancers will all
take different amount of time for them. This means that if you stop
calling the various parts of the lines will start to diverge in where
they are in the dance and soon there will be parts of the room dancing
the A1 part while others places in the room they are dancing the A2 or
even B1 part. I think swings may be the biggest issue. Everyone likes
to swing and many dancers will go long on each swing, but they'll all go
long by a different amount.
Choose dances with figures that have really well-defined timing and
don't stop calling and you will be OK. You may be able to reduce the
amount of calling, but you will probably need to say something from time
to time to re-synchronize the dancers.
Jonathan
On 3/28/2019 4:13 PM, Maia McCormick via Callers wrote:
> Hey folks,
>
> I haven't called all that many techno contras, and I'm slated to do so
> this weekend. Any tips or things to keep in mind about how techno
> differs from your standard contra evening? (Particularly curious about
> anything relating to dance choice and dance length.)
>
> Cheers,
> Maia
I attempted to send Tom Hinds a private query today and got a message that
his mailbox is full. I don't have his phone number. Can someone in direct
contact with Tom let him know I'm trying to reach him? (Alternatively,
share his phone number directly to me -- i.e., off list).
Thanks in advance!
Jerome
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