I’m not sure “circulate” is a common enough move in contra that you have to
worry about using the call differently, though it is becoming more common. And
correspondingly, I’d say “partial circulate” will hardly be helpful at all. I
think you could say “circulate to a wave” the first couple of
On Thu, May 17, 2018, Jack Mitchell via Callers wrote:
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> What would you call a circulate like this? Would it be a partial
> circulate? Or, in the interest of not adding any more terminology, since
> only half of the people are going to end up in a wave after each one, would
> it be better to
Hi Jack and all, A little off topic, but... Your dance made me remember a dance
I wrote back in 2002, "Do Make Waves". here's from my web site:
DO MAKE WAVES
A duple improper contra by Bill Olson
A1: Star R x 1 to long waves (Right Hand to N, L to previous N.
Women are facing
I might say “short circulate”.
There are some other versions of circulates which are cool. Chris Page has some
on diagonals as in his dance “kitty corner”
And bob Isaacs had his 4x4 “circulate 8”. Not. Both very cool. I’d call your
new version if it were in a dance!
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I really like your description of "women reach forward to form a wave of
women". If you state what hand you're taking with the person in your H4
(as you do here) that makes it even clearer (and means that if someone
doesn't actually do the loop to take their neighbor or partner's place,
it'll
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> On May 17, 2018, at 9:25 PM, Tom Hinds wrote:
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> If I'm reading it correctly I would say some dancers circulate and the others
> circulate half.
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> It looks so close to the mwsd diamond circulate.
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> Tom
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>> On May