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On 13-09-13 07:32 AM, Emily Addison wrote:
I've been collecting dances over the last few years and there are a few
that I'd like to add to my box but for which I don't have a name.
[By the time I finished writing this message, most have already been
identified, but I'll send it anyway.]
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*??NAME 1: IMPROPER*
As Linda Leslie points out, dances #1 and #8 are basically "Get Me
Going" by Lisa Greenleaf. Where #1 has "L gyp 1.5" and #8 has "L Al R
1.5", the published versions have "ladies do-si-do 1.5". (Various ways
to get the women to trade sides in 8 counts.)
See:
http://www.library.unh.edu/special/forms/rpdlw/syllabus2010.pdf
http://dancevideos.childgrove.org/contra/contra-modern/191
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*??NAME 2: IMPROPER*
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LL F&B
N Swing on the side
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CL 3 places
P Swing
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G Al ???which hand??? 1.5
G face N to start half hey
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Promenade up & down set (G inside/mid)
Turn (wheel as a couple) and come on back
My notes say this is "Pound Cat Promenade" by Scott Russell of Atlanta.
I collected it from Cis Hinkle back in 2002. As far as I know, it's
never been published in print or online.
The gents allemande is left hand. (I don't know of any dance that goes
from a swing to gents allemande *right*, ick.) And so the half-hey
starts passing your neighbour by the right.
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*??NAME 3: IMPROPER*
As others have said, "Rollin and Tumblin" by Cis Hinkle.
I'll add that it appears in "Give-and-Take", and also online
at the Dance Video Archive:
http://dancevideos.childgrove.org/contra/contra-modern/434
and in Bob Isaacs' CDNY Repertoire:
http://www.sharedweight.net/pipermail/callers/attachments/20041014/66bb6ed1/CDNYRepertoire-0001.pdf
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*??NAME 4: IMPROPER*
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L in 4 steps & Bal Wave
L out, G in & Bal Wave
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G Al L until see N
N Swing
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CL 3 places
P Swing
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LL F&B
Ladies Chain
This is (pretty much) "Trip to Lambertville Variant", a Chris Page
variant of the dance by Steve Zakon-Anderson:
http://chrispagecontra.award
space.us/dances/dlist3.htm#trip%20to%20lambertville%20variant
[I've introduced a blank into that URL because apparently, my ISP's mail
server rejects (or accepts but silently does not send) a message whose
body contains a URL to anywhere in awardspace.us! "Message does not
comply with required standards", feh.]
(I say "pretty much" because your A2 omits a short wave balance before
the neighbour swing.)
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*??NAME 5: IMPROPER*
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N B&Sw
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LLF&B
L Al L 1.5 (or Right???)
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P B&Sw
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G DSD 1 X
Cir L 3/4 & pass through to new Ns
"Monday Night in Ballard" by Mike Richardson of Seattle.
Appears in his book "Crossing the Cascades" and online in ACDOL:
http://www.quiteapair.us/calling/acdol/dance/acd_99.html
(Ladies allemande is right hand.)
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*??NAME 6: IMPROPER*
Don't know.
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*??NAME 7: IMPROPER*
"Cranky Ingenuity", as pointed out by the author himself.
Appears online at:
http://www.cdss.org/contra-dances.html
http://www.math.ufl.edu/~squash/contradance.dances-composers.html
http://www.jefftk.com/contras/dances/cranky
(Should also appear at
http://www.megalink.net/~pweeks/cranky.html
but the site doesn't seem to be responding. Bill?)
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*??NAME 8: IMPROPER*
(See #1.)
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*??NAME 9: IMPROPER*
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N B&Sw
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La Chain
Ladies back in, lead R shoulders for ½ Hey
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P B&Sw
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La Al R 1X … P Al L ½ … G Al R ½ … N Al R once and a bit ontothe next N
(keep flowing)
"Southern Swing" by Steve Zakon-Anderson.
Appears in "Give-and-Take" and Mary Dart's thesis,
online at:
http://www.cdss.org/elibrary/dart/appendix_e.htm
(Note that the latter says the final allemande is
"once-and-three-quarters", which is a mistake.)
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*??NAME 10: IMPROPER??? BECKETT?*
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Cir L 1X (all the way)
R&L Through
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La Chain across
La Chain on L diagonal (TO SHADOW)
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Bal Ring + Petronella
Bal Ring + Petronella
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Turn to B&Swing your Partner
???not sure if I have this dance right
The sequence works as a becket dance, but I don't have an exact match in
my notes. It's similar to "Ellen's Yarn" by Rick Mohr:
http://rickmohr.net/Contra/Dances.asp#EllensYarns
(also appears in "Give-and-Take").
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*??NAME 11: CIRCLE MIXER*
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Cir R (8 steps)
Cir L
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Forward 4 (with clap) & back
Corner???? Al L 1X
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P Al R 1X
New N DSD 1X
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New N (now your partner!) Swing
Promenade to R
Looks like a variant of "Cabot School Mixer" by Ted Sannella,
which appears in "Swing the Next", "Zesty Contras", and online at:
http://www.grantgoodyear.org/dance/programs/20080712.html#cabot-school-mixer-ted-sannella-6-mar-1981
Note that in the original dance, the two allemandes are R then L, which
leads better into a (right-shoulder) dosido. Also, the allemandes fit
into 8 counts total, so the corner swing ends at the end of B1, which
most dancers will find easier to do than ending a swing mid-phrase. So
I'm thinking you might be better off to use the original dance than the
sequence above.
-Michael
