Hi Everyone, The “Young Adult Rose” which I made up goes thus: Duple Improper A1: w/neighbor, balance and swing end progressed A2: Circle left 3/4 til gents are back home; w/partner, pass right shoulder; w/shadow, left hand turn B1: With partner, balance and swing B2: Ladies chain across; star left The only differences from The Baby Rose are (1) the title, the “baby” having become a “young adult” when, over 20 years later, we met at Camp Unirondack and he introduced himself (“I was the Baby Rose!”), and (2) the latter part of A2, wherein the arguably overly accommodating partner dos-a-dos morphs into what's above. I will just observe that, even if different from and perhaps somewhat less satisfying than what I made up, having to turn with *right* hands rather than left hands seems a bit inconsequential to me, considering what’s going on in the world around us these days. One might well wonder if the revolting individuals chose to at least be gracious. David Kaynor

On 2016-03-27 1713, Kalia Kliban via Callers wrote: Thank you for her name, this dance, and your notes about the experience. I probably said too much about my process (a repeat "fault"), sort of a thinking out loud, "I need this format" kind of thing. I hope it didn't look too pissy. I frequently don't respond to posts when I have to work out where to start from (lack of common context), however felt like trying to help out. It was fun having a read of the post you had that set of directions from. (It didn't turn up in my search for the dance, which is strange given the quality of returns from my first choice search engines.) I've also been working up to offering a medley, so it's nice to have yet another perspective on how to build one, for the dancers and oneself. Jonathon's comments about alternating one movement is what I'd drifted to as a likely stumbling block myself. Funny thing is we just danced Dargason today in an advanced-ish English afternoon session. As you likely know it ends with a long hey for eight, with hands. I saw some of my friends balk at using the same hand to re-enter the hey however they'd not have hesitated to offer the appropriate shoulder without that (hand) indicator that it was the same pass, seemingly twice in a row, that they were dancing. A nice ECdance we did a few weeks ago has a pass one by the right and gypsy right the next. Doable, once one lays down the geography for it. Fun fun fun. Cheers, John -- J.D. Erskine Victoria, BC

Of course you're funning, but this gives me the chance to refer to an incident described in Herbert Asbury's book, "The French Quarter", where a riot broke out in c. 1800 New Orleans and someone was killed because of a conflict over whether to do American or French contradanses at a public ball. --Alan On 3/28/16 4:22 AM, Michael Fuerst via Callers wrote: