[Callers] New dance?

Mon Mar 28 08:25:03 PDT 2016

One could name a dance about whatever one wants
However, here's one from the book Midwest Folklore published by the Urbana Country Dancers in 1995   https://store.cdss.org/product/178-midwest-folklore-and-other-dances
Colonel North's Contra Insurgencyby Erna-Lynne Bogue
A1 N's dsdStart grand R&L around the major set:  N right, nest neighbor left, right to a third, start left allemande with a fourth
A2 ... finish the allemande and lefts and rights to original neighborSwing original neighbor
B1  1's half figure 8 above,  1's start turning contra corners
B2   1's finish turning contra corners,  1's swing end facing down
Erna-Lynne wrote the first version of this dance during some well publicized Congressional hearings in the 1980's, and found it gain when Col North was again inthe news in 1991.Col North ran unsuccessfully for the Senate in 1994Oliver North - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

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    On Monday, March 28, 2016 9:41 AM, Ron Blechner via Callers <callers at lists.sharedweight.net> wrote:

 Let me rephrase:Is there a precedent for naming a dance after a living politician?On Mar 28, 2016 10:29 AM, "Don Veino" <sharedweight_net at veino.com> wrote:

Jefferson and Liberty.
On Mon, Mar 28, 2016 at 10:21 AM, Ron Blechner via Callers <callers at lists.sharedweight.net> wrote:

I have another question to pose:Is there precedent for naming a dance after a politician? While I may have voted for Bernie, I'm careful to not inject my political view into my calling / choreography. (Though, on the other hand, if Bernie doesn't win the nomination, in 5 years dancers will just hear "feel the burn".)In Dance,
Ron BlechnerOn Mar 27, 2016 8:24 AM, "Pat Hoekje via Callers" <callers at lists.sharedweight.net> wrote:

I am trying to visualize the circle R to star R with new neighbor from the women's place and I have to turn around (or drop from the circle right a bit early to star right with the next neighbor.  What am I not seeing correctly or is that true?  
Thanks,Pat 

    On Sunday, March 27, 2016 4:22 AM, Amy Wimmer via Callers <callers at lists.sharedweight.net> wrote:

 Tom and Erik are quite right about that swing. It lasts FOREVER, which
is a little too long.  I took Michael's suggestion and started at A2.
I also took Michael's suggestion of turning the allemande into a
two-eyed turn (an "eye-lemande" as my friend Matthew coined). Thank
you for the suggestions for changing that bit.

Two callers danced it tonight. One (my husband, Tom) thought the flow
was good, but the swing was definitely too long. The other caller said
she really liked that the mad robin wasn't with your partner, which
she said tends to make a dance seem very partner-only-centric,
ignoring the neighbors. She agreed with me that I need to figure out a
better way to teach it. One of the band members noticed the long swing
and said it needs some other element to break it up.

This particular dance community has lots of beginners and folks who
just don't dance very well. It took them a while to get the circle
right-to star right transition. Tom thought that part was simple. He
noticed that when one is out at the ends one should not cross over,
but should stand "proper."

I very much appreciate your input, guys. Next time I'll try some more
of your ideas.

-Amy

> On Mar 26, 2016, at 5:50 PM, Tom Hinds <twhinds at earthlink.net> wrote:
>
> Nice dance Amy.  I really like the sequence of moves.
> I'm trying to imagine this in my head and assume that the allemande right is once around which takes less than 8 beats to do.
>
> Hope you don't mind suggesting a change.  I would change the allemande right to once and a half.  That would give us:
>
> B2    neighbor allemande right 1 1/2
>    ladies ric.  men pass left
>
> T
>
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