Seth wrote:
> This weekend I'm calling a special dance (modern, urban contra) for Karen
> Parker, who turns 50. You have any interesting dances featuring over the
> hill, 50, Karen, or Parker? Listed below is what Michael Dyck's fabulous
> index came up with.
Not sure what the modern-urban-contra world would think about this, but I've
had good luck at a ceilidh dance with it.
FIFTY-FIFTY WALTZ
(From "Step Lively 2" by Marian Rose; her own composition.)
Circle of couples facing into the center; hands joined.
32-bar waltzes.
A1: Balance forward and back; women move one place to the right.
(Women step into the circle to face the man on her right - NOT PARTNER -
then take his right hand in her left and back up into the next spot.)
(Yes, it's a roll away.)
Repeat a total of four times.
"Your partner is now distressingly far away."
A2: Same deal, except that the men roll away to the right. Repeat four times;
you should be back to your partner.
B1: Face partner, join right hands with arms extended elegantly, and using
four waltz steps walk around each other in a clockwise direction. (Eg,
right hand turn.)
Left hand turn.
B2: Face partner, join both hands and chassez two steps into the center and
two steps out.
Step toward partner, extending arms to the outside; step away. Open out
facing into the center.
[Note - no progression, no travel, no partner change.]
[Easily modified into a mixer by doing a twirl to swap at the end of B2.]
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