I put it in an English country dance to "Lisa, Lisa"' , a Tango vals by Larry Unger. The dance is A Lean Tango.
Easy enough to teach as " Hands across star, Ladies ( or gents) backing up.) Sent from my iPad > On Oct 2, 2017, at 2:17 PM, Dugan Murphy via Callers > <[email protected]> wrote: > > Hi, Bill, > > I'm pretty sure Cary Ravitz first developed the figure we call "gypsy star.." > I know three of his dances which use the figure. "Woven Waves" and "Gypsy > Star" were both written in May 1999. "Gypsy Waves" was written in 2013. > > I haven't seen it in many other dances. Ryan Smith and I helped Stacey Lang > write a dance with the figure called "The Fault in Our Stars." See > http://www.twirlyshirts.com/dances/by-ryan/the-fault-in-our-stars/ > > Dugan Murphy > Portland, Maine > dugan at duganmurphy.com > www.DuganMurphy.com > www.PortlandIntownContraDance.com > www.NufSed.consulting > >> On Mon, Oct 2, 2017 at 4:29 PM, Bill Olson <[email protected]> wrote: >> Dugan and all, I don't know if Cary Ravitz actually "invented" the Gypsy >> Star but he wrote a dance entitled that and a lot of others that include it. >> Dugan, you're sort of Cary's protégé, right?, so you must know the dance. >> This is the same figure, correct?? >> >> >> bill >> > > _______________________________________________ > List Name: Callers mailing list > List Address: [email protected] > Archives: https://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/
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