Well, I don’t write a lot of dances, but I’ve been inspired by all the Dublin Bay dances. In mine I’ve tried to use the figure as I recall dancing it in the English dance of that name. Comments or corrections most welcome!

Sheepshead Bay    Improper    Richard Fischer

A1  Balance & swing neighbor. End facing down and form a line of four.

A2  Up the hall, moving backwards (4), down the hall forwards and all turn halfway to reform the line (4), down the hall, moving backwards (4), up the hall forwards (4)

B1  Ones gate the twos; twos swing in the center and end facing up towards their neighbors.

B2  Circle left halfway; ones swing in the center and end facing down to new neighbors.

Richard

On Jan 24, 2017, at 11:49 PM, Roger Hayes via Callers <callers@lists.sharedweight.net> wrote:

"Pivot the Line" is a good dance; I called it at our regular Madison dance tonight, it went well. I enjoyed seeing the dancers figure out how to dance the unfamiliar figures -- nothing was too hard, the beginners got through it fine, and people enjoyed refining the timing for the Dublin Bay figure. I taught it without being very precise on the timing, to give people the joy of discovery.

It was interesting to me that practically none of the dancers pre-bent the line for the A2. I think the 2's were enjoying the swoop across the set to start the (figure formerly known as a) gypsy; it's more dramatic than the usual oh-you're-here-already start of that figure.

- Roger H

On Wed, Jan 18, 2017 at 9:28 PM, QuiAnn2 via Callers <callers@lists.sharedweight.net> wrote:
I’ve also written a dance with this down the hall figure in it. I like to call it early in the evening since it’s very connected and has “rest” time for each couple. I haven’t run it through the Shared Weight gauntlet to see if anyone else has written it. Please let me know if it’s already out there.

Pivot the Line
by Jacqui Grennan, 5/1/2016
Contra/Improper/Easy

A1 -----------
Four steps down the hall, turn alone, rejoin hands in lines of 4
Four more steps down the hall, walking backwards
Four steps up the hall, turn alone, rejoin hands in lines of 4
Four more steps up the hall, walking backwards. Bend the line
A2 -----------
(16) 2’s gypsy RIGHT/swing, face up to same N’s
B1 -----------
(16) Same N B&Sw
B2 -----------
(8) 1’s DSD across set
(8) 1’s P Sw (2’s get ready for DTH, 1’s end the swing facing down between new neighbors).



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