user: Isaac Banner
Waltz/Break
Two tunes, 7 times through
Slip Jig Slip Jig Slip Jig
by: Don Lennartson
introduces moves: swing, circle, long lines, star, chain
formation: improper
| A1 | 16 | neighbors balance & swing
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| A2 | 8 | circle left 3 places
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| 8 | partners swing
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| B1 | 8 | long lines forward & back
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| 8 | star right - hands across - 4 places
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| B2 | 8 | ladles chain
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| 8 | star left 4 places ⁋
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by: Isaac Banner
introduces moves: hey, allemande, meltdown swing, pass through, do si do
formation: improper
| A1 | 16 | neighbors balance & swing
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| A2 | 8 | gentlespoons start a half hey - lefts in center, rights on ends
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| 8 | gentlespoons allemande left 1½
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| B1 | 16 | partners meltdown swing
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| B2 | 8 | circle left 3 places
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| 0 | pass through ⁋
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| 8 | next neighbors do si do once
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Kind of but not really The Second Time Around by Jim Kitch. Hey-to-allemande offers a refreshing broken-hey-ish redux of allemande-to-hey and creates an illusion of less inactivity in the ladle's role.
by: Isaac Banner
introduces moves: promenade, petronella, balance the ring, California twirl
formation: improper
| A1 | 16 | neighbors balance & swing
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| A2 | 8 | neighbors promenade
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| 8 | balance & petronella
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| B1 | 16 | partners balance & swing
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| B2 | 8 | balance & petronella
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| 4 | balance the ring
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| 4 | partners California twirl ⁋
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Variation on Back to Front by Luke Donforth - swaps the ladles allemande for a more symmetrical petronella to follow up on the truncated double petronella in the A1 - on Luke's website he mentions - "I often think of Rory O’More and Petronella in happening in pairs, but the following two dances use them in singletons to transition into something else." It seemed appropriate to double up on single petronellas.
Rotated to de-becketize, which also brings it pretty close to Brain Dead Balance also by Luke Donforth, who based Back to Front on A-1 Reel by Chris Weiler and clearly had a similar idea because he also wrote Double Balanced Brain which is a more symmetrical version of either dance than this one (but without a petronella left, the coward).......dances aren't really "written" or "original" - the dances don't need us to write them, they've always existed.
by: Yoyo Zhou
introduces moves: box the gnat, pull by direction
formation: improper
| A1 | 8 | neighbors right hand balance & box the gnat
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| 8 | star right 4 places
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| A2 | 4 | pull by right across the set w/partner
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| 12 | neighbors swing
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| B1 | 8 | gentlespoons allemande left 1½
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| 8 | partners swing
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| B2 | 8 | partners promenade
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| 6 | star left 3 places
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| 2 | pull by left w/neighbor ⁋
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Composed September 11, 2012
Choreographer's notes:
Often, when we pull across by the right hand, if we hold on too long, it
leadsto ladles turning over their right shoulder, which is bad for e.g.a right and left thru. But in this dance, it's good flow for the ladles to keep turning right into the neighbor swing.
Teaching notes:
* B2 needs to be zippy. After the star 3 places, we've come to original place.
by: Isaac Banner
introduces moves: gyre, box circulate
formation: Becket
| A1 | 8 | ladles chain
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| 8 | ladles gyre once and walk on to next neighbors ⁋
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| A2 | 16 | next neighbors balance & swing
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| B1 | 8 | gentlespoons start a half hey - lefts in center, rights on ends, end in long waves w/ gentlespoons facing in
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| 8 | balance & box circulate - gentlespoons cross while ladles loop right
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| B2 | 8 | balance & box circulate - ladles cross while gentlespoons loop right and ricochet back to partners
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| 8 | partners swing
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Ladles ricochet in B2 should be left-to-right, similar to a ricochet hey
Waltz/Break
by: Isaac Banner
Two tunes, 7 times through
introduces moves: down the hall, give & take, up the hall
formation: improper
Warn dancers this dance was written in jest, so as to appropriately set their expectations
| A1 | 8 | long lines forward & back
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| 8 | neighbors swing, end facing down the hall
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| A2 | 8 | down the hall, twos stop early and ones walk on to new neighbors ⁋
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| 8 | next neighbors swing
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| B1 | 4 | long lines forward
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| 4 | gentlespoons take partners
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| 8 | partners swing, end facing up the hall
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| B2 | 8 | up the hall and bend into a ring
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| 4 | gentlespoons take neighbors
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| 4 | neighbors swing ⁋
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Written after years of constant demands from Rochelle Starrett, don’t get mad at me if dancers revolt.
by: Yoyo Zhou
Slip Jig Slip Jig Slip Jig
introduces moves: custom, pass by
formation: improper
16 bar slip jig contra - empty space added for formatting
| A1 | 6 | neighbors gyre once
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| 6 | ladles start a half hey - rights in center, lefts on ends
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| 4 | (it's a slip jig)
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| A2 | 12 | neighbors swing
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| 4 | (it's still a slip jig)
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| B1 | 3 | gentlespoons pass by left shoulders
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| 6 | partners swing
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| 3 | partners swing
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| 4 | (i think you see where this is going)
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| B2 | 6 | balance the ring
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| 3 | petronella
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| 3 | pass through left shoulders ⁋
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| 4 | (slip jiiiiig)
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by: Isaac Banner
introduces moves: form an ocean wave
formation: improper
Starts in long waves, gentlespoons face out
| 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 | 16 | neighbors balance & swing
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| B1 | 8 | circle left 3 places
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| 8 | partners swing
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| B2 | 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 | ladles allemande left ½
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| 2 | pass through ⁋
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| 4 | next neighbors allemande right ¾ to long waves
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Based on Furthermore by Scott Higgs, but with a box circulate, rather than the original dances Rory spins, and other fiddling to sort out the positional changes that creates.
by: Yoyo Zhou
introduces moves: form long waves, Rory O'More, allemande orbit
formation: Becket ccw
| A1 | 6 | circle left 3 places
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| 2 | pass through
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| 8 | prev neighbors allemande right 1½
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| A2 | 0 | form long waves - gentlespoons face in, ladles face out
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| 8 | balance & Rory O'More right
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| 8 | neighbors swing
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| B1 | 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 | pass through (walk forward) ⁋
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| 6 | ladles allemande left once around while the gentlespoons orbit clockwise ½ around
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| B2 | 16 | partners balance & swing
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Composed June 29, 2013
Choreographer's notes:
Written as I was listening to Jaige Trudel's uplifting jig, Sunny Windows, in an airport with blinding sunlight, overlooking the Min Mountains in shadow.