Re: [Callers] How would you teach this? What would you call it? - Import1

8 Mar 2019

Here's a crack at putting the star burst in a duple improper choreography.

Stellar Star Burst
Contra/Improper

A1 -----------
(16) Neighbor gyre and swing
A2 -----------
(8) Larks/Gents allemande Left 1-1/2
(8) Partner swing
B1 -----------
(8) Long lines, forward and back
(8) Left hand Star 3/4
B2 -----------
(8) Star Burst: ravens/ladies lead out, curve left; larks/gents lead back
in (single progression)
(8) with new neighbors Right hand Star 1x

I'm not positive on the timing of B1 & B2. There are a couple of places to
adjust it. This assumes giving folks a little extra time for the star
burst, with a left hand star 3/4x that probably won't take the full 8
counts. If A2 were circle left 3/4 & partner swing. Then B1 becomes long
lines forward and back with a left hand star 1 & 1/4; which would compress
the starburst into ~6. You could also make it take more time with a double
progression (a wider out, loop, and in; although it might be hard to keep
track of). The gyre and swing at the A1 is pretty forgiving.

I don't know how different the star burst would feel from a poussette; the
two are very similar; and the above sequence could be rendered:

A1 -----------
(16) Neighbor gyre and swing
A2 -----------
(8) Larks allemande Left 1-1/2
(8) Partner swing
B1 -----------
(8) Long lines, forward and back
(8) Circle Right 3/4
B2 -----------
(8) Poussette (larks start push) to progress
(8) With next neighbors Circle Left 1X

I think I'd rather dance the first one than the second; but I'm not sure
it's worth the teaching time.

On Thu, Mar 7, 2019 at 5:52 PM Angela DeCarlis &lt;aedecarlis(a)gmail.com&gt; wrote:

...
  I would probably get everyone into their final
positions first before
 teaching the move, so's that everyone knows where they'll end up.

 After that the language would look something like, "Star Right all the way
 around. With your partner and without hands, slide out and away from the
 center of the set in the direction that feels comfortable moving out of
 that star. Ones move up through the center. Twos and Threes, slide back
 into the set into the positions we previewed earlier."

 It would be slightly easier to teach if it weren't proper! Then you could
 specify who's leading whom for those slides.

 I like this move and would like to see a version of it in a duple improper
 choreography, please! Sans the folks moving through the center,
 unfortunately.

 Angela

 On Thu, Mar 7, 2019, 5:15 PM QuiAnn2 via Callers <
 callers(a)lists.sharedweight.net&gt; wrote:

  If it isn’t already a defined move it should most
definitely be called a
 “star burst”!!

 Jacqui Grennan

 On Mar 7, 2019, at 1:30 PM, Luke Donforth via Callers <
 callers(a)lists.sharedweight.net&gt; wrote:

 Hi All,

 I'm playing around with choreographing triplets, and I've got a sequence
 that I think would flow well; but I'm not sure how to teach it short of a
 demo.

 The idea is that couples 2 & 3 do a star. Out of that star, they move
 out, up, and back in; leaving space in the middle for couple 1 to move to
 the bottom.

 I put together an animation of it:
 https://scratch.mit.edu/projects/292197780/

 Is that already a defined move? What would you call it? How would you
 teach it?

 Thanks for your thoughts!

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