Major Hey is an AABBC dance, or 40-bars, not 48.
Just in case that's also include-able:
Major Hey
4-face-4 Becket
Line up as a four face four, identify your traveling partners (your "hey
buddy") then identify your direction of travel -- ones progressing down,
twos up. Then in circles of four, circle left one place. Now traveling
buddies are facing the "same wall," so identify "your original wall."
A1 Circle left 3/4, pass through up and down (direction of travel), and
swing the new neighbor end facing in (facing partner)
A2 Long lines forward and back (toward partner) (there are four lines,
sort of two contras); Men (in lines facing) allemande left 1-1/2 to
make waves of 8 -- partner in right (women in center lines that were
back to back join left hands)
B1 Rory O'More Balances towards and away from partner -- you know, twice
B2 Half hey for 8, start passing partner's right shoulder, when you
meet your partner the next time
C Partner Balance & Swing
Note that though I call it AABBC, there are tunes that work fine that
are played AABCC, like Little Billy Wilson or Three Thin Dimes.
I've had experiences calling this and having it run really smoothly --
with 1 walk through, and times when I've called it to dancers I thought
could do it, and couldn't successfully teach it -- even after 3
walk-throughs, thus watched it fall apart with confusion.
~erik hoffman
Oakland, CA
On 12/2/2013 6:19 AM, Bree Kalb wrote:
Major Hey by Erik Hoffman. I think you can find it with a quick
search; if not, I'll write it out for you.
BTW, William, you wrote one of my favorite dances: Devil's Backbone.
Thank you!
-----Original Message----- From: William Watson
Sent: Monday, December 02, 2013 3:27 AM
To: Caller's discussion list ; [email protected]
Subject: [Callers] Favorite AABBCC contra dances?
Hi All,
A band I'm working with on an upcoming contra dance gig has asked me if I
can find a dance to fit some AABBCC tunes they have. They mentioned Real
Beatrice, and suggested that a balance at the top of C1 might work very
well.
Any suggestions?
Thanks in advance,
William
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