Vallimont's Silver Hammer
by Luke Donforth
Becket
A1
Circle Left
Neighbor Swing
A2
Promenade across with neighbor
Ladies chain to partner
B1
Right to neighbor, balance and pull by; pull by partner left
shadow DSD 1x
B2
Partner Balance and Swing
slide left
Note, I'd originally posited another dance as Vallimont's Silver Hammer; but it turned out that Bob Isaacs had already written and named that one; so I wrote Julie a different one. That dance:
Return 2 Sender
by Bob Isaacs
Becket
A1
Circle left 3/4
Neighbor swing
A2
Gents start hey for 4 by left
B1
Right to neighbor (women back to back in middle), balance and box gnat
Pull by right, women allemande left 1 1/2
B2
Partner balance and swing
Slide left
So Mary Collins, please make sure that the dance you have isn't actually Bob's with a different name; since I may have caused some confusion over the names back then.
Both my dance and Chris Weiler's Vallimont's Steamboat pay homage to the same Julie Vallimont (I don't know how many there are out there, but it's the same one). His happens to have a long lines at the top of B1 (which Julie also considers acceptable for closing sets) and ends with a partner swing. Some day we may put together a whole set of Vallimont :-)
And what I've gotten from this thread is I've got to get around to making a better website for listing my dances. My Mad Robin blog is fun for discussion, but terrible for finding things.