Re: [Callers] Dolphin Heys in contra dances

2016-06-12 Thread Liz and Bill via Callers
Hi Luke, There is a New Zealand connection. Do you know the origin of the move? I suspect it comes from the Scottish country dance which was in honour of a dolphin named Pelorus Jack. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pelorus_Jack

Re: [Callers] Dolphin Heys in contra dances

2016-06-12 Thread Alexandra Deis-Lauby via Callers
Nice! I love Dolphin heys! As an aside, I was thinking how great it would be if contra dancers had hey for 3s in their rep so they could more easily adapt a dance if one of their hands-four dropped out for some reason. Then the other couple wouldn't have to go to the bottom. Kind of like when

[Callers] Dolphin Heys in contra dances

2016-06-12 Thread Luke Donforth via Callers
Hello all, I'm sharing a link to a pod of dances I recently wrote: http://www.madrobincallers.org/2016/06/13/dolphinheys/ rather than putting all 5 and the descriptions up here. I'll put one at the bottom. I was at the English Country Dance in Brattleboro before the Dawn Dance, and Nikki Herbst