I was intrigued after all this discussion, and I called this dance tonight in Berkeley, and it went beautifully. (It was a pretty decent night overall, but this dance - with slinky tunes from Erin Shrader and Richard Mandel - was a highlight.)
> The progression is standard; ones move down, twos move up. The flirt/chase > could happen with either set of neighbors, but I prefer how it is written > -- up around the original neighbors rather than down around the next > neighbors. The interaction with the next neighbors in A2 is potentially > confusing, so a teaching point at the beginning might be to have dancers > locate their current neighbor and find their next neighbor, and say you will > briefly interact with the next neighbor at one point in the dance. I didn't do that - you kind of have your neighbor in your hand from the circle at the beginning, and the allemande brings you to next neighbor (and everybody figured out that if you're at the ends, your next neighbor is your partner), and by the time of the gypsy you've bonded with the current neighbors enough that nobody tried to go round the wrong people. The flow of this dance is really splendid. The gypsy winds up the actives and propels them into the chase/lady-round-two figure. > One other note: a demonstration of the "lady round two..." figure is worth > much more than any description. And the twos have lots of opportunities to > flirt throughout this figure as well. I remembered this comment of Jerome's, and after my description of the figure failed to work for most of the room, I got the one set that had gotten it right to demonstrate. Life was much improved. Thanks, caller list! -- Alan > > A1: > > Circle left > > Allemande right neighbor 1-1/2 > > > > A2: > > Allemande left next neighbor once or 2x > > Gypsy 1x > > Ending gypsy below original neighbor, women facing out and men facing > > in > > > > B1: > > Chase "lady round two and the gent cut through; gent around two and > > the lady cut through" > > > > Active woman walks in a clockwise direction around the inactive > > couple above while the active man follows her until he can (and > > does!) cut through the inactive couple. > > > > The man now walks clockwise around the couple above, while the woman > > follows until she can and does cut through the couple. > > > > B2 > > Actives balance & swing, end facing down > > > > I tried diagramming it and it seems like a backward progression? At > > the end of A2 it has progressed, but during the chase it goes > > backwards 2x so you end up with 1's/actives out at the top and > > 2's/inactives out at the bottom. > > > > Has anyone danced and or called this dance- is it supposed to be a > > backward progression? > > > > If I change it minutely, having the #1/active man in the chase > > sequence go around the same couple he just split- in other words > > moving him around the couple below rather than the next couple above- > > then it seems to work out as a single progression. If I called it > > with this change, does etiquette demand that I announce the change? > > > > So grateful to have found this list- I was looking at another dance > > http://blake.prohosting.com/austinbd/dances/chocolate_swirls.shtml > > wondering how to do a "come back cozy" into a cloverleaf and had > > given up finding the info- until I found this list with the Squeaking > > Wheel thread! Thanks! > > > > Thanks in advance! > > > > Alison Murphy > > Memphis TN > > > > > > -- > > Jerome Grisanti > > 660-528-0858 > > 660-528-0714 > > http://www.jeromegrisanti.com > _______________________________________________ > Callers mailing list > [email protected] > http://www.sharedweight.net/mailman/listinfo/callers -- =============================================================================== Alan Winston --- [email protected] Disclaimer: I speak only for myself, not SLAC or SSRL Phone: 650/926-3056 Paper mail to: SSRL -- SLAC BIN 99, 2575 Sand Hill Rd, Menlo Park CA 94025 ===============================================================================
