Hi All,
There Is No Way to Peace; Peace Is the Way, was originally written as
hand hold star promenades. I think Chart Guthrie told me about using
elbow turns, and it's been that way for me ever since. Might have been
someone else... It does make the star promenades a bit tighter and the
sharing of weight more likely. So, yes, Folk Process indeed!
And, I do share the opinion that good weight on a star promenade is
often not achieved...
~erik hoffman
oakland, ca
On 10/3/2013 1:51 PM, Grant Goodyear wrote:
On Thu, Oct 3, 2013 at 3:32 PM, Jack Mitchell <[email protected]>wrote:
I believe that elbow turns were the original version for that particular
dance -- at least they were in the version I collected something like 10
years ago.
The Folk process at work....
The elbow turns are in the version on Erik's website:
http://www.erikhoffman.com/peace.html
I've been calling that dance since at least 2000 or so, and my copy (taken
from Erik's "Contra Comments" book, if I remember correctly), has hand
allemandes instead. I certainly danced it to Erik's calling in 1997-1999,
and I don't recall the elbow turns back then, but it's certainly possible
that it did, and I just transcribed the dance incorrectly.
In any event, I've always had great success with it using hand allenmandes.
