Re: [Callers] Vallimont's Silver Hammer

Hello all, Vallimont's Silver Hammer came out in May of 2016. The dance came out of a conversation with the talented musician Julie Vallimont about closing sets; and how callers like dances that end with swings but bands often have something that builds to a big hit at the A to B transition in the music. I was trying to put a balance at the top of the B1 & B2, and ending with a partner swing. Yes, the Beatles reference is deliberate. The dance that I call Vallimont's Silver Hammer is *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. Happy Dancing! On Thu, Nov 2, 2017 at 1:25 PM, Don Heinold via Callers < callers(a)lists.sharedweight.net&gt; wrote: -- Luke Donforth Luke.Donforth(a)gmail.com &lt;Luke.Donev(a)gmail.com&gt; _______________________________________________ List Name: Callers mailing list List Address: Callers(a)lists.sharedweight.net Archives: https://www.mail-archive.com/callers@lists.sharedweight.net/