On Writing Dances that have been Written: Years ago our we danced Bill Cochran's: /Third Friday/ A1 Neighbor Balance & Swing A2 Down Hall 4 in Line, Turn as Couple, Return, Fold Line B1 Women Chan -- over & back B2 Partner Balance, Square Thru Two, Partner Balance, Square Thru Two to next Neighbor I loved the B2 move, but wanted a partner swing in the dance, so I made the: /Second Third Friday/ Improper Erik Hoffman A1 Neighbor Balance & Swing A2 Men Allemande Left 1½; Partner Swing B1 Right & Left Thru Across the set; Women chain back B2 Partner Balance, Square Thru Two, Partner Balance, Square Thru Two to next Neighbor. And, I published it in my first book, Contra Comments. Turns out Tony Parkes had the same idea, and he wrote: /Friday Night Fever/ with the only difference being the B2, where Tony's dance goes: B2 Partner Promenade; Women Chain -- Which I now like better. And, Tony wrote his dance prior to me Tony published it in one of his books (don't recall which) Turns out Myrtle Wilhite also wrote and published this dance, the same as my version, and called it /Balanced Out #2/ In looking at composition dates, Tony's came first, mine second, and Ms. Wilhite's third -- all in the late 80s or early 90s. I'm pretty sure we all came out with this dance independently. Both Tony and I attribute Bill Cochran for the basic Idea. Myrtle doesn't, so, perhaps she came up with the dance independently. But the point of this is, we choreographers are all bound to put together some dance that someone else has also come up with. At this point, it's great to have this list to check that a sequence is original. It goes a long way to checking this. ~erik hoffman oakland, ca On 7/12/2015 6:01 AM, Tom Hinds via Callers wrote: