I’ve got a gypsy star dance (I actually call it “Star Wrong” and not just
because of the g-word, but because if you say “gypsy star” everybody starts to
gypsy and NOT star, so I gave up on that confusing terminology). Haven’t seen
another dance like it. The move from mad robin into the star wrong actually
flows quite well. I use men and women for roles, not genders. When I first
started calling, we considered “lady” to be a four letter word - women’s
movement and bra burning and all that. I still find it hard to use the word
“lady” and not bristle. Times have changed, now people bristle at men and
women. Go figure. I didn’t correct the “g-word” use on this version either.
The Wrong Star <>
Duple improper
July 3, 2015
A1 Mad robin, women to right in front
Gypsy star 3/4 (star wrong) with women taking right hands, men left,
women move forward
A2 Gypsy and swing your partner
B1 Four in line down the set, couple on left (2s) slide to right in front of
couple 1, who slide to left^
Turn alone and come back up, bend the line
B2 Balance in a circle, circle left 1/4*
Swing your neighbor
*The circle 1/4 is merely a teachable way to have the men draw the women to
their side along a circular path. I prefer this to just saying draw your
neighbor to your side and swing, because I would like people not to be skewed
relative to each other when the mad robin is to start.
^The "sliding glass door" approach to turning the four in line about is seen
also in Erik Weberg's "Now We Are Four". I have the 2s moving in front of the
1s for the sliding glass door move as the #1 man’s role can lead the #2 woman’s
role into the move as he passes behind her.
If interested, this and other dances are on my Google website
https://sites.google.com/site/marthawildscallsofthewild/
<https://sites.google.com/site/marthawildscallsofthewild/> which, for reasons
that are obscure to me, and even though I’ve shared it as public, appears on no
searches whatever, no matter how exactly I copy the name and more on it.
Martha
> On Oct 2, 2017, at 2:41 PM, Bill Olson via Callers
> <[email protected]> wrote:
>
> OK then... Here's a gypsy star dance where the star doesn't start in
> interwoven long waves. From a dance choreography workshop. Been waiting for
> me to wrap my brain around it and publish it for a year and a half now.. It
> actually works and is easier to dance than it might appear at first glance.
> It has a figure that Peter Johnson had dreamed up and had been sitting on for
> a while.. Guess then *I* sat on it. Not sure if anyone else of the authors
> published it any where. If so, I didn't see it.. - bill
>
> Stellar Gypsy Becket
>
> by: Bill Olson, Peter Johnson, Riley Geistman, Sam Smith, Ray Jantzen, Laura
> Garchar, Patricia Danscen, Anthony Risenhoover, Peter Koza, Tina Fields,
> Hamish ?
>
> A1 promenade 3/4*, Swing new N (on ladies' home side)
> A2 1/2 R&L, W 1/2 chain (to partner)
> B1 LLF&B, Arch to Gypsy Star** (facing partner, move Star 1/2 way)
> B2 Gypsy and Sw Partner (on home side)
>
> *Promenade 3/4 is just continuing a normal promenade another 1/4 position so
> dancers are across from partner
>
> **Arch to Gypsy Star (concept was presented by Peter Johnson): Make Arch,
> walk forward, Ladies walk through arches.. when hands are all together, women
> take Left hands across and Men take Right hands across to form the Gypsy Star
> (women's hands under, men's hand over). Looking partner in the eye women sort
> of "draw" the men half way around the star. (the women are actually doing a
> do sa do pattern with each other here)
>
> written at a dance choreography workshop at Stellar Days and Nights dance
> weekend in Colorado, Feb 2016
>
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