[Callers] Title and author if this dance, please?

[Erik Hoffman via Callers]

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:
> Keith,
>
> You probably missed my response.   The Becket dance you refer to was 
> written by me and is called The Host.  I'm embarrassed that I took 
> credit for The Host since it really isn't original.  I just never 
> figured out that it was the same as Piece of Cake until Martha 
> mentioned it.   So I'd say yes the dance you called is Piece of Cake.  
> In my mind the first one who writes the dance get the credit and 
> variations like this are not original compositions.
>
> T
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