[Callers] Triplet with contra corners

[Linda Leslie]

Dear Chip,
A similar dance was written by me, for very much the same reason. I  
wrote it in 1991. Independently, David Smukler wrote the same dance a  
few years later. Here it is for you:

Corner Triplet
by Linda Leslie Proper

A1 (The lady will be on the left of her partner) Actives down the center
 Turn alone, return, Cast off with same role neighbor #2
A2  Contra corners
B1  Actives Balance & Swing
B2 (Face up) Separate and go through the sides (easier version)
 Or
  Ones up the center to the top, separate, go down the outside
  Lines of three forward & back

Linda


On Jan 26, 2013, at 3:19 PM, Chip Hedler wrote:


Hi, all--

I don't have the lore or the archives to answer Tom or Michael, but  
here's
another spur-of-the-moment composition that seems very likely to  
have been
created earlier and elsewhere. I had just run out of suitable  
triplets and

I wanted to teach country corners so in desperation I tried this:

Triplet, all proper

A1: #1 couple balance, cross over, go below #2, half-figure eight up
through #2 to end proper between #2 and #3.

A2: #1 turn country corners with the usual suspects.

B1: #1 gypsy and swing, end facing up.

B2: #1 cast around #2 to go down the outside to bottom while #2 and  
#3 move

up; lines of three go forward and back.

Seemed to work very well for a mixed-age group of beginners (maybe  
because
the #1s are so much busier than everyone else?)--if it's a known  
sequence
I'd like to give credit where credit is due. Also interested in any  
close

resemblances that people like.

Chip Hedler


On Sat, Jan 26, 2013 at 12:00 PM, callers-requ...@sharedweight.net <
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Date: Sat, 26 Jan 2013 11:06:54 -0500
From: Tom Hinds 
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Subject: [Callers] is this dance new?
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I just wrote a dance and wanted to know if it's unique.  I'm pretty
sure the A1 is borrowed from another dance.


D-imp
A1  Circle left.  Mad Robin (face partner and do-si-do neighbor).

A2  Hey, women pass left shoulders

B1  Women pass left shoulders and swing partner

B2  Ladies chain, forward and back.


Tom



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Date: Sat, 26 Jan 2013 08:38:39 -0800 (PST)
From: Michael Fuerst 
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Subject: Re: [Callers] is this dance new?
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How many dances do people know of that were independently written by
persons?
I know of two such pairs.

(1) Jim Kitch and Al Olson independently wrote the following  
sequence:

Improper
A1 Alm left N 1 1/2 and swing a 2nd (new) neighbor
A2 Alm left a 3rd N once, pass right shoulders with the one you  
swung, and

swing your original N




The two dances had the same B1 (I don't remember if it's W alm L 1  
1/2 and

partners swing or Circle Left 3/4 and partners swing).


But the two dances differ only in the B2.
Al Olson's version is called "The Empty Crack." I do not recall the  
name

of Jim's version





(2) Mark Richardson from Bloomington IN and someone (in California I
think) independently wrote the same dance.  I do not recall the  
name or

sequence of either.

Michael Fuerst


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Re: [Callers] Dances for Smaller groups

[Kalia Kliban]

On 2/3/2013 10:25 AM, Jacob & Nancy Bloom wrote:

Hi Kalia,

I do the hand turns and dosido still in the line of six, so the dancers
are in line for the hey at the end of the dosido.  When I looked for the
dance on youtube, I found that the versions I found all had the hey
before the turns, but I call it the way I learned it.  That was in 1981,
at a late night dance at the All Folk Around The Wrekin festival, with
music by the Oyster Ceilidh band, and calling by someone who was wearing
a pencil skirt and high spike heels.  (I think that's the only time I've
danced to a caller who couldn't have done the dances they were calling
in the outfit they were wearing.)


Having done morris jigs in stiletto heels, I can say with assurance that 
you can dance in just about anything :>)  The pencil skirt could slow 
you down a bit, I admit, but where there's a will there's a way.



It was educational looking at the youtube  versions.  I found both one
done by a Cornish performing group (they moved out into two facing lines
for the hand turns, and left out the swing entirely), and one recorded
at a ceilidh dance, in which the balances had morphed into "kick-jumps".


The version I learned has the kick-jumps, and the hand turns are done in 
the facing lines of 3.  Funny how these things change around.  But 
however you call it, it's a great dance!


Kalia

Re: [Callers] Dances for Smaller groups

[Jacob & Nancy Bloom]

Hi Kalia,

I do the hand turns and dosido still in the line of six, so the 
dancers are in line for the hey at the end of the dosido.  When I 
looked for the dance on youtube, I found that the versions I found 
all had the hey before the turns, but I call it the way I learned 
it.  That was in 1981, at a late night dance at the All Folk Around 
The Wrekin festival, with music by the Oyster Ceilidh band, and 
calling by someone who was wearing a pencil skirt and high spike 
heels.  (I think that's the only time I've danced to a caller who 
couldn't have done the dances they were calling in the outfit they 
were wearing.)


It was educational looking at the youtube  versions.  I found both 
one done by a Cornish performing group (they moved out into two 
facing lines for the hand turns, and left out the swing entirely), 
and one recorded at a ceilidh dance, in which the balances had 
morphed into "kick-jumps".


Jacob

At 12:00 PM 2/3/2013, you wrote:

Date: Sat, 02 Feb 2013 16:52:04 -0800
From: Kalia Kliban 
To: Caller's discussion list 
Subject: Re: [Callers] Dances for Smaller groups

On 2/2/2013 2:25 PM, Jacob & Nancy Bloom wrote:
> For 6: Cornish Six Hand Reel, or any triplet that's suitable for your group
>  (See Zesty Contras for the triplets Ted's Triplet #3 and
> Housewarming.)
>
>  Cornish Six Hand Reel - 64 bar dance - Starting formation:
> three couples in a line of six facing down the hall
>  Line of six go down the hall, balance twice 8 bars
>  Turn alone, come up the hall, balance twice 8 bars
>  With partner RH turn, LH turn   8 bars
>  Two hand turn, Dosido   8 bars
>  Hey for six 16 bars
>  Take partner in promenade position, face RH wall,
>  couple at RH end of set leads promenade to LH end of set and
> makes an arch,
>  other couples come under arch, all swing partner in new
> position16 bars

I love this dance, but learned it (and teach it) with the hey
immediately after the lines of 6 up the hall.  At that point they're
still conveniently in the line for the hey and simply have to face their
partners.  At the end of the hey, just turn your partner enough to end
with the men facing down the hall and the ladies facing up.

Actually it has just occurred to me to ask, do you do the hand turns and
the dosido all still in the lines of 6?

Re: [Callers] Dances for Smaller groups

[Bill Baritompa]

Hi Cheryl,

Those dances of Jacob look nice, here are few more:
Cheers, Bill


For five:
Gender Free For Five (inspired by the Weevil for 7)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6GAAf-9unRg
Sheepskin Five
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5MyOqpjK1JQ
Half Hazy Dots (inspired by Polka Dots)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5a7aNG7ifZk

Many triplets can be adapted to work for five as:
Microchasimic (Gender Free for five)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=si1aJPTUcoY

For six
Cut to the Chase (Triplet)
   http://youtu.be/5BdY_dy3hU0

For seven
The Weevil by Richard Mason
http://youtu.be/SM1vr2-QK_Q

H7 (mod) by BB, original by Peter Toxvaerd
   found a version in Heiner Fischle's book

Formation  H shape gender free

caller

72
6 1 3
54

Flowing music 7x32 bar reels

A1 #1, #2 and #3 RH Star (8) ; #1, #5 and #6 LH Star (8)
A2 #1, #3 and #4 RH Star (8) ; #1, #6 and #7 LH Star (8)
B1 #6, #1,  and #3  Hey3  (#1 starts R sh with #3) (16)
B2 Lines (#2 thru #7) Forward, join hands 6 circle right one place (4), and fall 
back  (4)

   #1 and #2 Allemand Left 1 1/2  into new places (8) *

* #2 will have moved to the #7 position after B2a, after B2b
 #1 becomes new #7  and #2 becomes new center dancer:

13
7 2 4
65
 so 7 times thru the dance gets back to original positions

Teaching notes:

Stress staying in the H formation, everyone will get a chance to be in
each position. The middle person gets the most fun! They will lead each
of the four stars and start the hey. All moves on the 234 side are right
handed (or shouldered), while all moves on the 567 side are left. If
the dancers in the lines face slightly down and hold their inside hands up
and ready, the stars will go smoothly.

calling notes:

Call to the middle dancer. e.g. if have middle dancer facing the caller at start
(which is the case after B2b), "right hand star on your right ..., cross to the
bottom for a left hand star ..., across for a right hand star..., cross to the 
top
for a left hand star, etc.

Original version on web:
http://www.krackau-web.de/events/cuesheet/H7.txt
This version may have a mistake and as written does
not flow nicely. Version in Heiner Fischle's book also
does not flow so nicely.