[Callers] Dolphin Heys in contra dances

Sun Jun 12 20:42:42 PDT 2016

Nice!  I love Dolphin heys!

As an aside, I was thinking how great it would be if contra dancers had hey
for 3s in their rep so they could more easily adapt a dance if one of their
hands-four dropped out for some reason.  Then the other couple wouldn't
have to go to the bottom.  Kind of like when at the end of a 4 x 4 people
do it with just the 4 dancers.

A

On Sun, Jun 12, 2016 at 11:36 PM, Luke Donforth via Callers <
callers at lists.sharedweight.net> wrote:

> Hello all,
>
> I'm sharing a link to a pod of dances I recently wrote:
> http://www.madrobincallers.org/2016/06/13/dolphinheys/
> rather than putting all 5 and the descriptions up here. I'll put one at
> the bottom.
>
> I was at the English Country Dance in Brattleboro before the Dawn Dance,
> and Nikki Herbst called a dance with a dolphin hey; and it was such fun I
> decided to write contra dances with it.
>
> For those of you (like recently me) not familiar with a dolphin hey, it's
> 4 people doing a hey for 3; with the 1s acting as a unit and trading leads
> (like a school of fish) when the reach either end and loop back in. For
> instance, at 1:32 in this lovely video of Sapphire Sea:
> https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g-8LyExynvA
>
> I don't have video of the contra dances (although I have called a couple
> of them at contras and they've worked).
>
> Also, if you just search Dolphin Hey on google, you find:
>
> 
> Which, given how much time I've spent navel gazing about the move, I
> admit to thinking is hilarious. 
>
> My favorite
> (so far) of the 5 I've written is below. I'm curious if anyone else has
> already ported this move from ECD into contra.
>
> Enjoy:
>
>
> Kinematic Dolphin Vorticity
> Luke Donforth
> Type: Contra
> Formation: Duple-Improper
>
> A1 -----------
> (8) Long lines, forward and back
> (8) 2s hand cast the 1s down through the middle to a line of 4
> 1s turn to face lady 2
> A2 -----------
> (16) Dolphin hey for 3, 1s (gent starting in lead) pass lady 2 by left
> 7 changes, until at gents home side with partner second time
> B1 -----------
> (16) Partner gypsy and swing
> B2 -----------
> (6) Circle Left 3/4
> (10) Swing neighbor
>
> Notes: The dancers will probably get to the partner gypsy a little early.
> They can get a little more gypsy, or swoop wideley on the hey.
>
> Other Notes: The title comes from Carol Ormand’s Kinematic Vorticity,
> which has the same A1 and B2. 
>
> --
> Luke Donforth
> calling.luke at gmail.com
> <Luke.Donev at gmail.com>
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