perhaps it originally was 1s Balance and trade places for a N R AL 1/2 --- Rickey <[email protected]> wrote:
> Hi All, > > I have a dance which I remember dancing in > Montpelier Vermont with Charles > Woodard, probably in the 1980s. It is below. It is > a duple proper dance. > > (A1) Actives Balance and allemande right 1 ½ > > (A2) Ladies Chain over and back > > (B1) Left Hand Star Above, Right Hand Star Below > > (B2) Actives Swing, end facing up and cast off. > > I do not have a name for this dance. There does not > seem to be enough to do > in A1, so Ive changed it to Actives Balance and > Do-si-do and allemande > right 1 ½. > > But the biggest problem is with the ladies chain. > My wife tells me that she > has never started a ladies chain from the left side > of the gent, which is > what happens here. I thought that this was a common > way to set up a ladies > chain when starting from a duple formation, but I > cannot find any where the > woman does start from the gents left. I have written > a fix that eliminates > the ladies chain altogether, but I was wondering if > anyone is familiar with > this dance. Do I have part of it wrong? What might > your fix be, or do you > have any other dances that are fairly easy that have > a star with old > neighbors flowing into a star with new neighbors > (since this is the part I > like best). If it was also without a hey that might > be ideal. Got too many > heys programmed into the evening already I suspect. > > Thanks, > > Rickey Holt. > > > > _______________________________________________ > Callers mailing list > [email protected] > http://www.sharedweight.net/mailman/listinfo/callers > Mavis L McGaugh 510-814-8118 (answering machine-leave message) __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Tired of spam? Yahoo! Mail has the best spam protection around http://mail.yahoo.com
