Hi Kalia,
I have a Becket contra dance I’ve used at Community dances that is very forgiving, yet has interesting movement. The only name I have for it is Luke Donev’s ONS Becket.
Luke Donev’s ONS Becket
Longways contra Becket formation
A1 Partner Dosido
Partner Swing
A2 Long lines forward and back
Neighbor Dosido across
B1 Circle R !
Circle L (until back on the side of the set with partner)
B2 Long lines Yearn on L diagonal to new Neighbors, back up across from Ns.
Star R with these new Neighbors (if there’s time) until back on the side of the set with your partner.
I have a note that Luke says if you “double yearn” to L diagonal Neighbors, and back out on the L diagonal, it becomes a double progression dance.
Of course, a full yearn actually passes two neighbors, but the dance can be adapted for either scenario: to new Neighbors for beginners, and a full yearn for a double progression for more experienced dancers.
When teaching this to newbees, I’ve taught the star as “if there’s time.” There’s usually time.
Joy Greenwolfe
Durham, NC
Hi all,
I'm re-vamping my list of simple contra dances for new callers, and am in search of a very particular sort of becket dance. The list is one of my hand-outs for callers' classes at camps, so the folks who'll be using it are likely to be nervous, brand-new callers. To that end, I'm looking for sturdy, hard-to-break, low-piece-count dances. In a perfect world they'd be composed of simpler glossary figures.
I already have a fair collection of simple dances to choose from, but would like to include one more becket dance (I have Tica Tica Timing already on the list). This perfect becket that I'm looking for should _not_ start with circle L 3/4, and should not contain petronella twirls. Bonus points if it doesn't have a whole hey, since I've already got a couple of whole hey dances in the list.
I look forward to hearing what you can recommend.
Many thanks,
Kalia Kliban
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