user: Casey Caison
Hold my Hand by Dean Snipes
Donuts and Danishes by Andrea Nettleton
by: Jim Hemphill
introduces moves: hey, custom, gyre, swing, allemande, right left through, mad robin
formation: improper
| A1 | 16 | ladles start a full hey - lefts in center, rights on ends - ladles ricochet first time, gentlespoons ricochet first time, ladles ricochet second time, gentlespoons ricochet second time
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| A2 | 2 | ladles cross by left
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| 6 | partners gyre once
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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 | 8 | right left through
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| 8 | mad robin, ladles in front ⁋
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by: Ruth Ungar
introduces moves: circle, balance the ring, pull by dancers, custom
formation: improper
| A1 | 4 | circle left 2 places
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| 4 | balance the ring
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| 4 | circle left 2 places
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| 4 | balance the ring
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| A2 | 2 | neighbors pull by right "mini grand right left"
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| 2 | partners pull by left
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| 2 | neighbors pull by right
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| 2 | partners pull by left
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| 8 | neighbors gyre 1½
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| B1 | 16 | partners balance & swing across the set, end facing original direction (ones down, twos up)
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| B2 | 16 | wizard's walk: Ones separate around the twos. Ones split the next twos. Back up around the twos, split the original twos. Ones end where they started WW. ⁋
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Teaching Notes: 1s separate and go down outside 2s, meet and continue down to split next 2s; 1s now separate and back up outside those 2s, meet and back through previous 2s ready to form the circle to start the dance again the 2s should oscillate in and out to make room for the 1s
Ruthie Ungar's original and notes at Published in GEMS, the CDSS Diamond Jubilee contest book
To be danced to Jay Ungar's tune of the same name.
Source of dance notes: http://www.cambridgefolk.org.uk/contra/dances/ruth_ungar/wizards_walk.html
See a video of this version http://dancevideos.childgrove.org/contra/contra-modern/85-wizards-walk