In addition to Pong, the grid contra I've tried at two dance weekends, there's also some six face six dances I wrote; only "two out of three ain't bad" has actually been field tested. I've had it succeed and be enjoyed, I've also had it degenerate into a circle mixer.
http://www.madrobincallers.org/2014/02/26/6-facing-6-contra-dances/ On Fri, Oct 12, 2018, 7:20 AM Bill Baritompa <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi Seth, > > Ages ago you mentioned your dance Transgressions on SW and I made > some snapshots of it. > > I checked callers box and notice that the link to the snapshots > in the caller's notes of > http://www.ibiblio.org/contradance/thecallersbox/dance.php?id=12040 > is no longer valid as picasaweb is dead. > > I've moved the snap shots here: > https://photos.app.goo.gl/uxB2Qh4Ya7K31cBX7 > so you can send an update to Chris to fix the callers box listing. > > I've also added a few more snapshots of the paths and neighbors met. > > Luke Donforth wrote a very interesting grid contra which he called Pong. > It has both progression and transgression which changes during the dance. > > The paths of couples are diagonal but bounce off the boundary of the grid, > thus solving the problem of some couples not moving very much or at all. > However this was at the expense of have 'changing states' that dancers had > to be > aware of. > > https://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/msg10581.html > http://www.madrobincallers.org/2017/09/19/pong-a-grid-contra/ > > I had corresponded quite a bit about it. He actually tried the dance at > one point. > > I've attached some comments about it and this is video about the math > https://youtu.be/S_qCbQIAFbQ > > Cheers, Bill > > > > >
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