Well, I don’t write a lot of dances, but I’ve been inspired by all the Dublin Bay dances. In mine I’ve tried to use the figure as I recall dancing it in the English dance of that name. Comments or corrections most welcome!
Sheepshead Bay Improper Richard Fischer A1 Balance & swing neighbor. End facing down and form a line of four. A2 Up the hall, moving backwards (4), down the hall forwards and all turn halfway to reform the line (4), down the hall, moving backwards (4), up the hall forwards (4) B1 Ones gate the twos; twos swing in the center and end facing up towards their neighbors. B2 Circle left halfway; ones swing in the center and end facing down to new neighbors. Richard > On Jan 24, 2017, at 11:49 PM, Roger Hayes via Callers > <[email protected]> wrote: > > "Pivot the Line" is a good dance; I called it at our regular Madison dance > tonight, it went well. I enjoyed seeing the dancers figure out how to dance > the unfamiliar figures -- nothing was too hard, the beginners got through it > fine, and people enjoyed refining the timing for the Dublin Bay figure. I > taught it without being very precise on the timing, to give people the joy of > discovery. > > It was interesting to me that practically none of the dancers pre-bent the > line for the A2. I think the 2's were enjoying the swoop across the set to > start the (figure formerly known as a) gypsy; it's more dramatic than the > usual oh-you're-here-already start of that figure. > > - Roger H > > On Wed, Jan 18, 2017 at 9:28 PM, QuiAnn2 via Callers > <[email protected] <mailto:[email protected]>> > wrote: > I’ve also written a dance with this down the hall figure in it. I like to > call it early in the evening since it’s very connected and has “rest” time > for each couple. I haven’t run it through the Shared Weight gauntlet to see > if anyone else has written it. Please let me know if it’s already out there. > > Pivot the Line > by Jacqui Grennan, 5/1/2016 > Contra/Improper/Easy > > A1 ----------- > Four steps down the hall, turn alone, rejoin hands in lines of 4 > Four more steps down the hall, walking backwards > Four steps up the hall, turn alone, rejoin hands in lines of 4 > Four more steps up the hall, walking backwards. Bend the line > A2 ----------- > (16) 2’s gypsy RIGHT/swing, face up to same N’s > B1 ----------- > (16) Same N B&Sw > B2 ----------- > (8) 1’s DSD across set > (8) 1’s P Sw (2’s get ready for DTH, 1’s end the swing facing down between > new neighbors). > > > > _______________________________________________ > Callers mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.sharedweight.net/listinfo.cgi/callers-sharedweight.net
