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@lists.sharedweight.net> wrote:

Hi Friends,

"Vallimont's Steamboat" is a fine dance and was written by Chris Weiler and you can find it on his site here..

http://caller.chrisweiler.ws/dances.htm#vallimonts

Don Heinold, RI Caller

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From: Angela DeCarlis via Callers <callers@lists.sharedweight.net>
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Vallimont's Steamboat is the dance written for musician Julie Vallimont, to the tune Vladimir's Steamboat. I imagine this has something to do with it, but of course Luke will be chiming in before long with the *actual* story, I'm sure.

On Thu, Nov 2, 2017 at 12:06 PM, frannie via Callers <callers@lists.sharedweight.net> wrote:

Luke Donforth

On Thu, Nov 2, 2017 at 8:59 AM, Mary Collins via Callers <callers@lists.sharedweight. net> wrote:

Have the dance, not the author....

And...any anecdotal information.

Thanks all!!

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