On Wed, Jul 17, 2019 at 4:09 PM Martha Wild via Callers <
callers@lists.sharedweight.net> wrote:
Here’s one of mine with a couple of variations.
Alternate A2: full hey. If the full hey option is used it might be better
to switch the B1, as in Gateway to Julian #5, with the gate first followed
I modified Bob Dalsemer's dance, Dog Branch Reel, so that the transition
into the neighbor swing would be more conventional.
To give it even more English flavor, I tried changing B2 to fall back, turn
single while advancing, 2s swing, but it was a hard sell at the contra
dance.
In my own records
As a student of calling in 1992, the first dance I called was 24th of June,
because that's my birthday.
On Mon, Jul 18, 2016 at 2:05 PM, Vicki Morrison via Callers <
callers@lists.sharedweight.net> wrote:
> Hello all. In addition to the lovely Du Quoin Races dance by Orace
> Johnson, are you
There's an English Country Dance, Mary K (for Mary Kay Friday), with a
figure called Petit Fours, which is a two-couple version of grand square.
Maybe someone could devise another contra where two sets intersect each
other in the middle, and with the four couples they do a grand square
instead of
In ECD, someone (I believe it was Fried de Metz Herman) came up with a
figure called face en face, with a French pronunciation. Not sure why it
wasn't face à face. I describe it as the last two-thirds of a 1-1/2 dos à
dos.
On Fri, Feb 5, 2016 at 10:30 AM, Jonathan Sivier via Callers <
They spell it with the y.
www.gypsy-association.co.uk
On Sun, Nov 1, 2015 at 12:30 PM, John Meechan via Callers
callers-at-lists.sharedweight.net |sharedweight-garyes| <
lc5ghe4...@sneakemail.com> wrote:
> We’ve had very few opinions, other than heresay, about gipsies in the UK.
> I have never
Margate Hoy is a simple English dance that can be done quite zestily. "Hoy"
is some kind of ship. I heard somewhere that Margate Hoy was a ferry boat
named for the town of Margate, but I have not found "hoy" defined as a
ferry boat anywhere online (yet). I did find this definition of Hoy from
In another thread the awkward transition for the women from the arm-around
assisted cast to the right-hand turn was pointed out.
In ECD, we would do an unassisted cast in such a situation. Why not undo a
little bit of the folk process and go back to that?
