user: Nicholas Rockstroh
waltz
by: Lisa Greenleaf
introduces moves: swing, long lines, allemande, circle, balance the ring, pass through
formation: improper
| A1 | 16 | neighbors balance & swing
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| A2 | 8 | long lines forward & back
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| 8 | ladles allemande right 1½
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| B1 | 16 | partners balance & swing
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| B2 | 8 | circle left 3 places
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| 4 | balance the ring
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| 4 | pass through to new neighbors ⁋
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Bradley Smith Notes: Originally, the last figure of this dance was a neighbor do-si-do 1 1/2, but I usually swap it for the ring balance and pass through to make the progression as simple as possible for inexperienced dancers.
introduces moves: promenade, chain, star
formation: Becket
Look at the dancers on their left diagonal. These are next neighbors. The dancers across from you are prev neighbors.
| A1 | 8 | partners promenade and loop to next neighbors ⁋
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| 8 | ladles chain
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| A2 | 8 | star left 4 places, then with prev neighbors
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| 8 | star right 4 places, back to current neighbors
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| B1 | 16 | neighbors balance & swing
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| B2 | 8 | gentlespoons allemande left 1½
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| 8 | partners swing
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Replaced the diagonal right and left through with a promenade and loop, then moved the neighbors swing to the ones you chained with and switched from a meltdown to a balance.
by: Bob Green
introduces moves: mad robin, allemande orbit, give & take
formation: Improper
| A1 | 8 | mad robin, ladles in front
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| 8 | ladles allemande left 1½ around while the gentlespoons orbit clockwise ½ around
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| A2 | 16 | neighbors balance & swing
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| B1 | 8 | ladles give & take partners
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| 8 | partners swing
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| B2 | 8 | ladles chain
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| 8 | mad robin, ladles in front ⁋
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by: Bob Isaacs and Chris Weiler
introduces moves: slide along set, box the gnat, pull by dancers
formation: Becket
| A1 | 2 | slide left along set ⁋
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| 6 | circle left 3 places
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| 8 | neighbors swing
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| A2 | 8 | long lines forward & back
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| 8 | gentlespoons allemande left 1½ to face partner (gentlespoons back-to-back)
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| B1 | 8 | partners right hand balance & box the gnat (ladles back-to-back)
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| 2 | partners pull by right (to start half-hey with hands)
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| 2 | gentlespoons pull by left
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| 2 | neighbors pull by right
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| 2 | ladles pull by left
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| B2 | 16 | partners balance & swing
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waltz
by: Gene Hubert
introduces moves: down the hall, up the hall
formation: improper
| A1 | 16 | neighbors balance & swing end facing down the hall
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| A2 | 8 | down the hall and turn as a couple
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| 8 | up the hall and bend into a ring
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| B1 | 8 | circle left 3 places
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| 8 | partners swing
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| B2 | 8 | ladles chain
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| 8 | star left 4 places ⁋
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by: Chart Guthrie
introduces moves: hey, right left through
formation: improper
| A1 | 8 | long lines forward & back
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| 8 | gentlespoons right-hand chain
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| A2 | 16 | gentlespoons start a full hey - rights in center, lefts on ends
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| B1 | 16 | partners balance & swing
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| B2 | 8 | right left through
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| 8 | ladles chain ⁋
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by: Ron Buchanan
introduces moves: form an ocean wave
formation: Improper
| A1 | 16 | neighbors balance & swing
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| A2 | 8 | pass through to an ocean wave & balance - ladles by left in the center, neighbors by right on the sides
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| 2 | neighbors allemande right ½
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| 2 | gentlespoons pull by left
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| 4 | partners allemande right ¾ and look for shadows
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| B1 | 6 | shadows allemande left once
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| 10 | partners swing
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| B2 | 8 | pass through to an ocean wave & balance - ladles by left in the center, partners by right on the sides
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| 2 | partners allemande right ½
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| 2 | gentlespoons pull by left
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| 4 | neighbors allemande right ¾ and look for next neighbors
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introduces moves: slice, roll away, petronella
formation: Becket cw
| A1 | 4 | slice left ⁋
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| 4 | ladles take neighbors
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| 8 | neighbors swing
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| A2 | 8 | ladles chain
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| 8 | circle right 4 places
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| B1 | 4 | gentlespoons roll away partners with a half sashay
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| 8 | balance & petronella
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| 8 | balance & petronella
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| 12 | partners swing
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I wrote a dance called “Bridge to Yesterday” which was very similar to this one, but turned out to be excessively clockwise. This is the result of my rewrite of that dance. Note the petronella turns where the spinning figures come before the balances as in the original dance “petronella.” I wanted something using the traditional-style petronella turns since it would enable a spin into a 12-count swing.