Nice! I love Dolphin heys! As an aside, I was thinking how great it would be if contra dancers had hey for 3s in their rep so they could more easily adapt a dance if one of their hands-four dropped out for some reason. Then the other couple wouldn't have to go to the bottom. Kind of like when at the end of a 4 x 4 people do it with just the 4 dancers.
A On Sun, Jun 12, 2016 at 11:36 PM, Luke Donforth via Callers < [email protected]> wrote: > Hello all, > > I'm sharing a link to a pod of dances I recently wrote: > http://www.madrobincallers.org/2016/06/13/dolphinheys/ > rather than putting all 5 and the descriptions up here. I'll put one at > the bottom. > > I was at the English Country Dance in Brattleboro before the Dawn Dance, > and Nikki Herbst called a dance with a dolphin hey; and it was such fun I > decided to write contra dances with it. > > For those of you (like recently me) not familiar with a dolphin hey, it's > 4 people doing a hey for 3; with the 1s acting as a unit and trading leads > (like a school of fish) when the reach either end and loop back in. For > instance, at 1:32 in this lovely video of Sapphire Sea: > https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g-8LyExynvA > > I don't have video of the contra dances (although I have called a couple > of them at contras and they've worked). > > Also, if you just search Dolphin Hey on google, you find: > > > Which, given how much time I've spent navel gazing about the move, I > admit to thinking is hilarious. > > My favorite > (so far) of the 5 I've written is below. I'm curious if anyone else has > already ported this move from ECD into contra. > > Enjoy: > > > Kinematic Dolphin Vorticity > Luke Donforth > Type: Contra > Formation: Duple-Improper > > A1 ----------- > (8) Long lines, forward and back > (8) 2s hand cast the 1s down through the middle to a line of 4 > 1s turn to face lady 2 > A2 ----------- > (16) Dolphin hey for 3, 1s (gent starting in lead) pass lady 2 by left > 7 changes, until at gents home side with partner second time > B1 ----------- > (16) Partner gypsy and swing > B2 ----------- > (6) Circle Left 3/4 > (10) Swing neighbor > > Notes: The dancers will probably get to the partner gypsy a little early. > They can get a little more gypsy, or swoop wideley on the hey. > > Other Notes: The title comes from Carol Ormand’s Kinematic Vorticity, > which has the same A1 and B2. > > -- > Luke Donforth > [email protected] > <[email protected]> > > _______________________________________________ > Callers mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.sharedweight.net/listinfo.cgi/callers-sharedweight.net > >
