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.
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> On Oct 2, 2017, at 10:05 PM, Isaac Banner via Callers
> 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
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