Michael Barraclough wrote:
>
> the tradition of calling the 1st 3 times fully, the next 3 partially
> and the last 3 not at all. Tradition does not have to be followed,
> but announcing that this will happen certainly sharpens the dancers'
> attention. It is a useful tool in encouraging the
Triplets don't have to be longways, they can also be in circles. This
one usually goes down well:
Gypsy A Trois (by John Sweeney)
Three Couples in a Circle
A1: Circle Left One Place; Balance the Ring
Three Men DosiAll
A2: Circle Left One Place; Balance the Ring
Three Ladies DosiAll
B1: Partner
I will include a triplet occasionally. I mostly do it as a means to
provide variety - in an evening with 11 dances I would attempt to
program 9 duple improper/becket dances plus two other formations. These
could be any of: triplet, square, circle, sicillian circle, proper,
indecent, mixer.
My
Triplets ... rarely get done these days. And the wild cheering is a
running gag going back decades, the theory being the dancers have
memorized which number is which. They were originally created by Ted
Sannella in 1968, from memories of Fandango. It was a way for him to
make triple-minor
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[mailto:callers-boun...@sharedweight.net] On Behalf Of Kalia Kliban
Sent: Monday, August 20, 2012 3:34 PM
To: call...@sharedweight.net
Subject: [Callers] Triplets
Hi all
I just encountered a triplet in the wild for the first time (they don't
get called much around here
A few of the callers around Chicago have one or two triplets in their
repertoire. Like the Tulsa dance Louise described, the dance I help run
is often rather thin at the beginning and end, If memory serves me,
Ted's #5 and #24 are the most frequently called. I think I've also done
triplets
I recently prepped Ted's Triplet #24 for a dance that I knew would be tiny, at
least at the beginning (Tulsa, OK). I chose it because after going through all
of Ted's Triplets in Zesty Contras, it was one of the only ones (the only one?)
that I felt confident the dancers would be able to
Hi all
I just encountered a triplet in the wild for the first time (they don't
get called much around here, and I've been out of the dancing loop for a
bit) at our Santa Rosa (CA) contra last Friday. It was Ted's Triplet
#24. Apparently wild cheering is traditional when one of Ted Triplets
On Thursday, May 31, 2012, Paul Wilde wrote
>
> Hey all,
>
> Anyone have some interesting easy to intermediate triplets they'd be
> willing to share?
>
>
>
I'm a fan of:
Beneficial Triplet by Al Olson
Housewarming by Jacob Bloom, replacing the B2 forward and back with a
partner do-si-do
Hey all,
Anyone have some interesting easy to intermediate triplets they'd be
willing to share?
I've got Ted's Triplets #3, #4, #6, Linda Leslie's Corner Triplet,
and David Smuckler's David's Triplet #5.
Thanks,
Paul W.
Prov. RI
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