Hi John,
While there isn't a person there for the ladies to go around, I'd
envisioned them looping around as if they were, and using the space and
time to make the move flow. So they'd trace the path of what they'd do with
a half figure eight, without a physical presence of the standard post.
Hi Luke,
I am not sure why you are calling it a Half Figure Eight. Unless I
have misunderstood something, you just have the ladies crossing the set, going
around each other instead of straight across, while the men move out of the
way. Since the active dancers don't go around a
Luke --
This isn't directly responsive to your actual question, but here's what
it reminded me of:
In proper duple formation, the place where same-sex neighbors would
stand in improper formation is diagonally opposite. Most longways
English dances are proper, so in English for these
On 2018-07-10 11:46 AM, Luke Donforth wrote:
I'm not sure about prompting it as an all cast, since that implies the
ladies facing back in after the move, and then casting out again. I was
envisioning more of a swoop wide,
I was too! For me, that qualifies as a "cast".
See, e.g.
As a couple of folks have pointed out (thank you), there's a typo there.
The ladies take their partner's place, not neighbors. Thank you for
catching that and sorry for the confusion.
Michael, I'll track down some videos of dances with chevrons, thanks for
the aside.
I'm not sure about prompting
On 2018-07-10 08:18 AM, Luke Donforth via Callers wrote:
Hello all,
I've been thinking about half figure eights, and variations on them. Is
anyone familiar (in ECD, contra, or other traditions), where instead of the
1s or 2s half figure eight, having the gents or ladies do the move from
Hello all,
I've been thinking about half figure eights, and variations on them. Is
anyone familiar (in ECD, contra, or other traditions), where instead of the
1s or 2s half figure eight, having the gents or ladies do the move from
improper formation?
As soon as you have something like the ladies
