On Aug 30, 2013, at 2:39 AM, Cynthia Phinney wrote:
Here's a fun twist.
"Hickman's Hey"
There is half a hey when you get the bottom of the hall, then you
finish the
hey when you get back home.
Hickman's Hey
A1 Down the Hall, four in line (Ones in middle)
½ Hey (Start facing in, ones pass right, End where partner was)
A2 Up the Hall
Finish the Hey
B1 One’s Allemande Left 1 1/2
Neighbor Swing
B2 One’s Balance & Swing
From what I can find out, Steve Hickman was the name of the person
who
collected the dance and he did not know the actual name, nor the
author.
Also, it seems that the B1 and B2 parts vary (the A1 and A2, being
what
makes the dance distinctive, do not), but this is how I learned it
and how I
call it.
William Watson's snapshot of the The American Country Dances On Line
site (originally compiled by Russell Owen) offers a version of
Hickman's Hey
http://www.quiteapair.us/calling/acdol/dance/acd_69.html
as follows:
A1 (8) Down the hall four in line (1's between the 2's)
(8) Half hey, 1's pass right shoulders to start
A2 (8) Return up the hall four in line
(8) Half hey (again), 1's pass right shoulders to start
B1 (4) 1's allemande right
(12) Neighbors swing
B2 (8) Long lines go forward and back
(8) 1's swing
Note that 1's allemande right 1x (not 1 1/2) in B1. As Perry Shafran
pointed out, this correctly brings 1's to their neighbors. Note also
that ACDOL's version of the mutable B2 is a little different from
Cynthia's.
Dan Pearl asked about the dance on rec.folk-dancing in 1992. See
https://groups.google.com/forum/#!topic/rec.folk-dancing/
g4vWUSQRNT4
for Dan's query and a reply by Marlin Prowell which confirms what
Cynthia says about the history (or mystery) of the dances' origin:
*I*
[that would be Marlin --js]
posted a query about this dance perhaps nine months ago. Or ...
almost this dance... In the version I posted, B2 is Actives Bal &
swing.
[Dan's version had "B2. Long lines: forward & back; actives swing" --js]
In the Seattle area, this dance is known as Hickman's Hey, because
(according to Luther Black) Steve Hickman has called it in the area
several times, but Steve does not know who wrote it. So the dance has
been named (for lack of any alternative) after the person who called
it. Steve collected it at Pinewoods in 1987 at an after hours dance,
but did not get the name or author.
I did some research before posting my query. Luther says that Steve
Hickman did not call this dance the same way each time, and that
*this*
version was adapted from one of Steve Hickman's versions. The
distinctive A1 - A2 parts have always been the same, but apparently
the
B parts mutate. (BTW, Luther Black is a local good fellow; he is on
the
board of directors of *both* CDSS and Folklife). I asked Larry
Edelman
if he knew the dance, and he did not. I asked Steve Hickman, and he
admitted to collecting the dance, and did not know the author.
Also, I
got no response to my query about this dance from the net. (Other
than
seeing another permutation show up on the net nine months later).
So, who did write this?
[Nobody seems to know. --js]
The June 2009 issue of the Lloyd Shaw Foundations's newsletter,
_The American Dance Circle_
http://lloydshaw.org/Resources/adc/200906i.pdf
includes a version with Steve Hickman incorrectly listed as author and
with B2 as circle left and actives swing.
--Jim
