Isaac, you raise a very good question. There are so many dances that the issue of originality is bound to come up.
> Of course we're all going to have different opinions. To those who have been > on this list for some time I apologize for repeating myself. Since you are > relatively new I'll relay something I heard Ted S. say. A dance has to have > 50% new choreography to be new. And Ted was looking at contras and squares > of his day like Petronella and Hull's which had unique A parts and the same B. Sent from my iPad > On Oct 2, 2017, at 10:05 PM, Isaac Banner via Callers > <[email protected]> wrote: > > Hey all, > > A question I've been mulling over for several months now is where the line > blurs from "a variation of" to "a dance based on" to "a dance of my own" when > writing contras. > > For example: > Last Hey (First Hey var.) - Paul Balliet and maybe Isaac Banner in a way? > Becket, CW > A1: (8) Circle left 3/4 > (4) Rings balance > (4) Pass through u/d > A2: (8) Ladies alle. left 1.5x > (4) Short waves balance > (4) Partner alle. right 3/4 > B1: (16) Ladies pass left, hey for 4 > B2: (16) Partner balance/swing > > In this case, I took First Hey, shifted it off by a phrase, and changed what > had then become the A2. I've called it at four or five dances out in the > northwest now, and I've waffled back and forth between calling it "a > variation of..." or "a dance of mine, based on..." and I'm still not sure on > which I want to use. > > I'll admit I'm still fairly new to this list, but at least in the several > months I've been following conversations here it seems fairly regular that I > see someone put out a dance, asking if it exists, only to get several > responses of "Oh, yes, I wrote that but with 8/16/32 counts different." I > always feel like it must be exciting, in a way, to know that you and another > caller both put together the same ideas, but I also would guess that it must > be a little disheartening, in a way, to know that your newfound baby isn't > quite yours and yours alone...heck, Newton and Leibniz both developed > Calculus and 300 years later even that can't seem to be settled. > > Over the last few years I've heard callers talk about when they consider a > dance to be a unique sequence and the majority opinion seems to be if a full > phrase is unique between the two, but I'm not sure that's always a hard and > fast rule... > > Anyways, I've been very curious what other people have to say on the topic. > Please let me know what you think. > > Thanks, > Isaac Banner > _______________________________________________ > List Name: Callers mailing list > List Address: [email protected] > Archives: https://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/
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