A friend in Seattle (Alan Cheetham) has written a contra dance with substantially weird end effects called broken corners. The dance is below, but the gist of the hook is you start contra corners, but with your first corner you allemande left 1.5 to have the TWOs complete the contra corners.
I'm gathering some people together tomorrow night to walk through that dance. I've got a couple of other weird dances, but while I've got some dancers gathered together for some experimental dancing, do YOU have any weird contras you've had hanging around and you need an in-depth, fully studied, deliberated upon walk thru? If so, please send them on. Tomorrow is a great time for us to work on your dance for you! Also, if you happen to be in Atlanta Wed, stop on by Janet's house from 7:45 - 9 to help us parse this and other dances out! Note: I have neither danced nor called this dance. I can make no recommendations about it being callable, danceable, understandable. It should be danceable. I just haven't proven it yet. Broken Corners Author: Alan Cheetham Start: Beckett O=men, X=women [After hands-four improper rotate right 1 / 4 so the "Ones" are on the right (men's proper side)] X O X O X O "Ones" O X O X O X Circle Left 3/4 (8) O X O X O X A1a X O X O X O Swing Neighbor (8) X O X O X O A1b O X O X O X Long Lines F&B (8) X O X O X O A2a O X O X O X "Ones" half Figure 8 up around Twos (8) X X X X X X A2b O O O O O O First broken corner - part 1 (part of 8) "Ones" start contra corners - Alamand partner by the right ½ to first corner (standard contra corner first corner) X X X B1a-1 OX OX OX O O O First broken corner - part 2 (rest of 8) Alamand corner by the left 1 ½ (which will end in a position to send the corner "Twos" into the middle) X O X O X B1a-2 O X O X O X Second broken corner - part 1 (part of 8) Former corners alamand the one you meet in the middle ¾ (to go to what would have been the standard second corner for the original people in the middle) O O B1b-1 OX OX OX X X X Second broken corner - part 2 (rest of 8) Alamand second corner position person by the left once around (to head back along the side) O X O X O X B1b-2 X O X O X Along the set gypsy the one you meet by the right ½ to ¾ changing places (part of 8) O X O X O X B2a-1 O X O X O X Men gypsy across the middle by the left ½ ending facing your partner (rest of 8) X X O X B2a-2 O O O O X X X X O X O X O B2a-2 O X O X O X Swing partner (8) (may need to swing slightly to the right, or remember the circle will be with the couple slightly to the right) X O X O X O X O B2a-2 O X O X O X Seth Tepfer Director of Administrative Computing Oxford College of Emory University seth.tep...@emory.edu 770-784-8487
