Nathaniel Jack’s “Loon on the Lake” also has this figure in it:
(Becket, progresses left)
A1 8 Circle L 3/4
8 Neighbor Swing
A2 8 LL F+B
8 Star L 1x
B1 8 New women 1/2 hay L (men loop right to join, passing partner R)
8 Women Al L 1x, men walk around clockwise ½ way around to home side
B2
Yeah… I know. I’m not one who believes that EVERY dance must have a neighbor
swing. I think there are some incredibly fine choreographies that can happen
without that requirement. That said, I wouldn’t program an entire night of
them, lest I get rode out of town on a rail!
J.
> On Jun 26,
On 2018-06-26 12:31 PM, Luke Donforth wrote:
Thanks Michael,
Do you happen to know if Greg Frock's was ladies starting by right or left
shoulder for the hey? With the balance there, it could be either way. If it
was a left shoulder hey, then I'd consider this a variation of that dance.
If it
Jeff, that's an intricate one! I don't know that I'd run that one outside
of a challenge session.
Fun to see what you can put together when there doesn't have to be a
partner & neighbor swing ;-)
On Mon, Jun 25, 2018 at 6:03 PM, Jeffrey Spero via Callers <
callers@lists.sharedweight.net> wrote:
Thanks Michael,
Do you happen to know if Greg Frock's was ladies starting by right or left
shoulder for the hey? With the balance there, it could be either way. If it
was a left shoulder hey, then I'd consider this a variation of that dance.
If it was a right shoulder hey, then I'm more inclined
Here’s one I wrote in back in 1993 (I was ahead of my time?)
Harvesting the Hey
Becket
A1 Left diagonal, right and left thru
Straight across, right and left thru
A2 Star left once around
With the NEXT (shadow - leave partners), star right once around
B1 With the previous (the same four as
Here's one I'm familiar with off the top of my head featuring that
transition (called it at NEFFA this year):
*Belmont Romp - Becket - Dan Pearl (var DonV)*
A1 Circle Left 3/4x, Neighbor Swing
A2 Long Lines Fwd/Back (note next N)
Star Left 1x to Gents face out, Ladies in
B1 NEXT Ns Full Hey
On 2018-06-25 04:03 PM, Luke Donforth via Callers wrote:
Hi folks,
I ran this at a monthly dance, and it was well received; so I figured I'd
share it around. To my knowledge it's new. Please correct me if you know of
a prior.
If you replace the "gyre + swing" with "balance + swing", you get
Hi folks,
I ran this at a monthly dance, and it was well received; so I figured I'd
share it around. To my knowledge it's new. Please correct me if you know of
a prior.
The interesting/odd bit is the transition from B2 to A1, where the ladies
role comes out of a left hand star with old neighbors
