user: Moose Flores
La Bastrangue http://jolainejonespokorney.blogspot.com/2018/03/if-you-stumble-make-it-part-of-dance.html?m=1
Broke down & scrapped
waltz & goodnight
by: Jim Hemphill
introduces moves: do si do, allemande, swing, promenade, long lines
formation: improper
| A1 | 8 | gentlespoons do si do once
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| 8 | ladles allemande left 1½
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| A2 | 16 | partners balance & swing
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| B1 | 8 | gentlespoons allemande left 1½
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| 8 | neighbors swing
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| B2 | 8 | neighbors promenade across
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| 8 | long lines forward & back ⁋
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Bradley Smith Notes:
The first time through the dance, the gentlespoons do-si-do in A1 is with the couple that you start the dance with. Every time after that, the gentlespoons have to look to the left to find the next gentlespoon to do-si-do. It's a very simple progression that just requires reminding gentlepoons that they must look to the left every time through the dance after the first to find the next gentlespoon to Do-si-do.
by: Lynn Ackerson
introduces moves: custom, circle, balance the ring, California twirl
formation: four face four
Have dancers note their "trail buddies" and who their corners are. The two dancers in the middle of the line of 4 are corners and the dancers at the ends have their corners in front of them.
| A1 | 8 | long lines forward & back
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| 8 | middle 4 star right 4 places
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| A2 | 8 | partners allemande left 1½
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| 8 | other 4 star right 4 places
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| B1 | 16 | partners balance & swing
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| B2 | 8 | circle left 4 places
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| 4 | balance the ring
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| 4 | partners California twirl ⁋
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In this case there are 8 places in the circle, so going 4 places is equivalent to half way.
by: Chestnut
introduces moves: pass through, turn alone, custom
formation: improper or proper
| A1 | 8 | long lines forward & back
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| 4 | pass through across the set
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| 4 | turn alone
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| A2 | 8 | long lines forward & back
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| 4 | pass through across the set
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| 4 | turn alone
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| B1 | 8 | partners do si do once
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| 8 | partners swing
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| B2 | 16 | top couple sashay to bottom of set - others move up ⁋
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If you finish dancing before the music is done, let each couple in turn just sashay down until the music is ready to end.
by: Linda Leslie
formation: three-face-three
Three face three in lines facing up/down the hall. Teach "home position".
| A1 | 8 | circle left 6 places
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| 8 | circle right 6 places
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| A2 | 8 | neighbors do si do once "ends do-si-do your opposite"
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| 8 | neighbors do si do once "middles do-si-do your opposite"
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| B1 | 8 | neighbors swing "ends swing your opposite"
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| 8 | neighbors swing "middles swing your opposite"
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| B2 | 8 | long lines forward & back
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| 8 | pass through to a new line of 3 ⁋
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Linda Leslie notes: Although I don't have the exact time that I wrote this dance, it must predate the first date I called it: 10/22/93 for the Appalachian Mountain Club, Joy Street, Boston. Especially useful for one night stands! Any combination of three. All dancers CAN do this dance, and it really mixes up the dancers. Great for weddings, etc. For these type evenings, I don't talk about #1 or #2 lines of three, or progression: rather I describe "home position". Once we have walked through the dance once, I then point out the couples who have come out at the top and/or bottom, asking them to wait out one time through the dance, turn around, and that this is when "home" changes. Works like a charm.....and the dancers are very happy finding new opposites for each cycle.
Original at http://www.lindalesliecaller.website/very-easy-dances.html
by: Gene Hubert
Broke down & scrapped
introduces moves: custom
formation: Becket
| A1 | 6 | circle left 3 places
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| 10 | neighbors swing
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| A2 | 6 | neighbors promenade along the set on the right
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| 2 | ladles cast back while gentlespoons continue forward ⁋
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| 8 | next neighbors swing
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| B1 | 8 | entire set oval left until across from partner
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| 8 | long lines forward & back
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| B2 | 8 | ladles allemande right 1½
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| 8 | partners swing
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introduces moves: petronella, balance
formation: improper
| A1 | 8 | neighbors allemande right 1¾
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| 8 | gentlespoons allemande left 1½
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| A2 | 16 | partners balance & swing
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| B1 | 8 | balance & petronella
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| 8 | balance & petronella
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| B2 | 8 | balance & petronella
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| 4 | balance the ring
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| 2 | pass through ⁋
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by: Cary Ravitz
introduces moves: chain
formation: Becket ccw
| A1 | 8 | gentlespoons allemande left 1½
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| 8 | neighbors swing
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| A2 | 8 | neighbors promenade
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| 8 | ladles chain
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| B1 | 8 | balance & petronella and turn to face the next ⁋
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| 8 | balance & petronella
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| B2 | 16 | partners balance & swing
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"The motion in B1 does seem magical – while the ladles Petronella over and back across the set, the gentlespoons do consecutive Petronellas along the side, in effect progressing behind his partner’s back."
- Rich Goss
waltz & goodnight