[Callers] Re: Who wrote "Leave 'em Standing"?

Mon, 17 Nov 2025 13:21:30 -0800 




Unfamiliar with original choreography, can't answer this question, but was 
intrigued to work through it, and I think it makes sense for it to be more than 
8 counts, but some things confuse me.

Anyway, assuming duple minor improper:

CL 1x (unusual!), neighbor swing on side [all on original side but progressed]
Larks by the left, swing partner (robins on home side, larks on partner's side)
Larks all L to other side, swing partner
Long lines, balance and petronella one place to the right (moves the robins to 
their partner's side so everybody is progressed and crossed over).

Cast out into single promenade; since you're starting progressed but crossed 
over, lark has to go five places around the outside to get to progressed place 
and side.  Robin, as I'm picturing it anyway, has to go three places, so I 
think that's lark genuinely takes time to turn out over left shoulder and cross 
the set (which feels like 6-8 beats just to cross the set) and continues around 
while robin pulls left shoulder back and follows.

So I don't have any problem with that progression taking up a whole B.

[But when I thought that through I thought "Larks cast " and I see you say 
"Lark 1 cast",  and I don't understand how that would work in a standard duple 
minor progression.)

I'm a little suspicious it's not a duple minor improper because of the 
circle-to-neighbor-swing needing to be 1x if it's improper.
I haven't worked through where everybody is if it's a Becket but that seems 
unlikely because can you expect anybody to know who the 1s are in a Becket?

If it genuinely is only the #1 Lark, I'm wondering if this is actually a four 
face four, which spends most of its time working just with the neighbor couple 
that each couple is facning, but at the end the lark at one end of the line of 
four peels out to the lead the line to facing a new foursome, a la Devil's 
Backbone.

-- Alan

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I've got a variant of Leave 'em Hanging by Luke Donforth called "Leave
Them Standing" ("Leave 'em Standing?"), does anyone know who wrote this?
I don't recall where I got the card so it may be someone local, or maybe
it's in wider circulation?

I also feel like I'm missing something in the B2 since the same thing
takes 8 beats in the original dance. If you do have this card does it
match what I've got here?

Thanks,
Sam


A1. Circle left; N. swing
A2. Larks by the left, P. swing

B1. Long lines; balance and petronella
B2. Lark 1 cast CCW, single promenade ring out and around to next neighbors

--
Sam Whited
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