user: Nicholas Rockstroh
BREAK
by: Cary Ravitz
introduces moves: swing, circle, star, allemande, right left through, chain
formation: improper
| A1 | 16 | neighbors balance & swing
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| A2 | 8 | circle left 4 places
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| 8 | star left - hands across - 4 places and ladles let go
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| B1 | 8 | gentlespoons allemande left 1½
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| 8 | partners swing
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| B2 | 8 | right left through
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| 8 | ladles chain and look for next neighbors ⁋
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by: Ted Sannella and Larry Jennings
introduces moves: do si do, pull by dancers, give & take
formation: Becket
In opening circle you are with the couple on your left diagonal.
| A1 | 8 | circle left 4 places with couple on your left diagonal ⁋
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| 8 | 1st neighbors do si do once
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| A2 | 2 | 1st neighbors pull by right
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| 2 | 2nd neighbors pull by left
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| 2 | 3rd neighbors pull by right
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| 6 | 4th neighbors allemande left once
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| 2 | 3rd neighbors pull by right
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| 2 | 2nd neighbors pull by left
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| B1 | 16 | 1st neighbors balance & swing
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| B2 | 8 | gentlespoons give & take partners to gentlespoon's home side
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| 8 | partners swing
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Notes from Bob Isaacs: In this crossing of two New England greats, Larry improves a dance written in
his honor by adding the give and take.
The very long and good neighbor sequence is allemande left-pull
by right-pull by right-pull by left-pull by left-circle-do si do-pull by right-balance-swing-give and take.
Source: Give and Take, by Larry Jennings.
by: Bob Isaacs, Robert Cromartie, Isaac Banner
introduces moves: revolving door, long lines
formation: improper
| A1 | 8 | star right 4 places
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| 8 | neighbors allemande right 1½
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| A2 | 8 | gentlespoons allemande left 1½
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| 8 | partners swing
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| B1 | 8 | revolving door - ladles take right hands and drop off partners on other side
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| 8 | neighbors swing
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| B2 | 8 | long lines forward & back
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| 8 | star left 4 places ⁋
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by: Sarah Kaiser
introduces moves: box circulate, hey, form long waves
formation: improper
long waves, neighbor right, ladles face in
| A1 | 8 | balance & box circulate - ladles cross while gentlespoons loop right
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| 8 | balance & box circulate - gentlespoons cross while ladles loop right
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| A2 | 8 | balance & box circulate - ladles cross while gentlespoons loop right
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| 8 | partners swing
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| B1 | 8 | gentlespoons allemande left 1½
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| 8 | neighbors swing
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| B2 | 16 | ladles start a full hey - rights in center, lefts on ends
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| 0 | form long waves - ladles face in, gentlespoons face out, next neighbor by right ⁋
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introduces moves: promenade, pass through
formation: Becket
Identify next neighbors on left diagonal and identify shadow on other side of partner
| A1 | 8 | partners promenade looping CCW to next neighbors ⁋
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| 8 | ladles allemande right 1½
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| A2 | 16 | neighbors balance & swing
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| B1 | 6 | circle left 3 places
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| 2 | pass through to shadows
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| 8 | shadows start a half hey - rights on ends, lefts in center - and look for partners (like a half gyre to begin)
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| B2 | 16 | partners balance & swing
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Make sure to emphasize that the partner swing ends across from the neighbors you swung. When walking the hey, make sure the dancers are solidly aware of whom they're dancing the hey with and where they need to end up.
An easier setting for the half hey with shadow to a partner swing sequence that I used in The Birds are the Words. Written around the same time, but finally named on the day after I moved to Cincinnati, OH. Revised slightly as of 2019-10-29, changed the shadow allemande to a direct entry into the hey. Treat the first pass as a half right gyre with your shadow followed by the two gentlespoons passing left in the center.
BREAK
by: Kelsey Hartman
introduces moves: petronella, see saw, California twirl
formation: improper
| A1 | 8 | neighbors allemande left 1½
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| 8 | ladles chain
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| A2 | 8 | balance & petronella
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| 8 | neighbors swing
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| B1 | 8 | balance & petronella
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| 8 | partners swing
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| B2 | 6 | gentlespoons see saw once
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| 6 | circle right 3 places ⁋
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| 4 | partners California twirl
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by: Cary Ravitz
introduces moves: roll away, zig zag, meltdown swing
formation: Becket ccw
| A1 | 4 | long lines forward
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| 4 | gentlespoons roll away partners with a half sashay on lines back
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| 8 | circle right 3 places
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| A2 | 4 | zig right zag left ⁋
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| 12 | next neighbors swing
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| B1 | 8 | circle left 3 places
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| 3 | partners allemande right ¾
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| 5 | gentlespoons allemande left once
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| B2 | 16 | partners meltdown swing
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Progresses indecent
by: Isaac Banner
introduces moves: down the hall, up the hall, balance the ring
formation: Becket
Andrea Nettleton told me she wished callers would do more down the halls, but all the options in my box were pretty basic and I wanted something that used it as less of an "away we go" and more of a buildup.
| A1 | 8 | revolving door - ladles take right hands and drop off partners on other side
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| 8 | neighbors swing and end facing down
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| A2 | 8 | down the hall and turn alone
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| 8 | up the hall and bend into a ring
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| B1 | 4 | balance the ring
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| 4 | partners California twirl ⁋
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| 4 | balance the ring
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| 4 | gentlespoons roll away neighbors with a half sashay
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| B2 | 4 | balance the ring
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| 4 | gentlespoons take partners
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| 8 | partners swing
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