Here is a dance I wrote that is a little weird. It has been danced at
least three times, and was moderately successful. The dancers needed
some help with the walk through. Please let me know if you are able to
use it and if it is indeed weird enough for you.
Janet Levatin
California Twirlin' by Janet Levatin 3/2007
Duple improper
A1: Balance the ring
Partner California Twirl and face back in
Balance the ring
Neighbor California Twirl and face back in
A2: Balance the ring
Partner California Twirl and face new neighbors
This new neighbor swing
B1: Circle left 3/4
Partner swing
B2: Ladies chain with courtesy turn
Long lines forward and on the way back…
Neighbor roll away with half sashay: women rolling left
Double progression variation:
B2: omit roll away, start dance with next neighbors
The thing that is weird about this dance is that you face back in to
your current group of four after the first two California twirls
instead of facing away as you usually do after a California twirl. As a
teaching point, you can tell the dancers to use their joined hands to
generate a bit of leverage to propel each other back in towards their
group of four. Some dancers will want to add a full circle twirl as a
flourish. The impetus for this can be generated by using those joined
hands to propel each other.
On Dec 11, 2007, at 3:48 PM, Tepfer, Seth wrote:
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
[email protected]
770-784-8487
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