2024-11-30 BUT

user: Moose Flores

Stick With The Union (for Dorian and Chris)

by: Aden Water

introduces moves: allemande, promenade, swing, mad robin, poussette, facing star

formation: Becket

At the top of A1 dancers can look to the left of the couple straight across to identify the couple whose place they are taking, also that same couple is who they will dance with next.

A1 8
gentlespoons allemande left once. Immediately...
8
partners promenade across and a little wide to progress ⁋
A2 8
ladles allemande right 1½
8
neighbors swing
B1 8
mad robin, gentlespoons in front
8
half poussette - ladles pull partners back then left.
B2 8
facing star clockwise 3 places with gentlespoons putting their left hands in and backing up
8
partners swing

Single progression, don't let the promenade skip any couples.

End effects: when out, couples should cross to the opposite side and wait for a couple to promenade to them.

Trip to Versailles

by: Moose Flores

introduces moves: custom, do si do, meltdown swing

formation: four face four

Inspired by a French court dance from Versailles.
In A1, try a shuffle step

A1 16
as couples, mad ladle clockwise (think: 8 count sliding door, twice)
A2 0
Center four dancers: star right, star left
16
meanwhile, at ends: neighbors allemande left once, allemande right once.
B1 6
partners do si do once
10
Grand right and left halfway around
B2 16
partners meltdown swing, end facing new neighbors

Inspired by La Tempete
https://youtu.be/vmiq0m7JTzM

42 minutes of Puffin Pablo

by: Moose Flores

introduces moves: circle, chain, right left through, hey

formation: Becket

Triple progression (sometimes there will be a couple out at the ends)
If you are out, wait on the side, ready for the left diagonal.
If there is no one at all on your left diagonal, WAIT 8 beats & resume dancing.
(If you get completely wonky and you have no neighbors at A1, EJECT and rejoin the bottom of the line.)

A1 2
circle left 1 place
14
neighbors swing
A2 8
left diagonal ladles chain (to Shadow) ⁋
8
right left through across set
B1 8
ladles start a left diagonal half hey - rights in center, lefts on ends by right shoulder ⁋
8
ladles start a half hey - rights in center, lefts on ends
B2 16
partners balance & swing

Triple progression (the diagonal half hey is two of them).

Variation of 40 Years of Penguin Pam:
http://contradb.com/dances/74

Autumn Ripple

by: Moose Flores

introduces moves: long lines, star

formation: Becket

A1 8
gentlespoons allemande left 1½
8
neighbors swing
A2 8
long lines forward & back
8
right diagonal gentlespoons chain to shadow
B1 8
star right - hands across - 3 places, gentlespoons drop out
8
ladles allemande right 1½
B2 16
partners balance & swing ⁋

At ends: wait on the side for the diagonal chain, and courtesy turn. (you may also star right 3/4 with two "phantom" dancers) then wait out half-sashayed.

Named after my grandmother's afghan.

Hearing Our Voices Shine (Happy Birthday Heidi, from Jeremy)

by: Moose Flores

introduces moves: custom

formation: Becket ccw

Becket CCW, so a quarter to the right.
Double progression; no one out at the top.

A1 8
gentlespoons start a right diagonal half hey - lefts in center, rights on ends ⁋
8
star right 3 places, ladles turn around
A2 16
neighbors meltdown swing
B1 8
long lines forward & back
8
partners do si do once (option: have one line raise arches over the DSD)
B2 4
left shutter balance ++
12
partners swing

Written & named for the winning bidder at the 2023 Dance, Music, & Spice Camp Live Auction.
Flowy A, marchy B, a place for optional arching flourish.

The title is a lyric from a song by Heidi Wilson.

++ Shutter Balance (like the shutter of a camera): join hands in a ring, and simultaneously circle left 1 place WHILE balancing the ring. (4) It may have the feel of a ricochet in a hey (in at one angle, change momentum, back out at a different angle).
Taken from a move in ECD, the name of which is unknown.

Beach Grass

by: Moose Flores

introduces moves: custom, balance, Rory O'More

formation: improper

A1 16
neighbors balance & swing
A2 8
circle left 3 places
8
partners swing
B1 8
right left through
8
long lines forward & back
B2 4
Gentlespoons walk, Ladles dodge, forming long wavy lines +
4
balance the wave
8
balance & Rory O'More right ⁋
  • Walk & Dodge: Gentlespoons walk across the set, Ladles step left one place to be behind their partner.

Chinese New Year

by: Chris Page

introduces moves: box circulate, square through, form long waves

formation: improper

begin in long waves---right hand to neighbor, gentlespoons face out, ladles face in.

A1 8
balance & box circulate - ladles cross while gentlespoons loop right
8
balance & box circulate - gentlespoons cross while ladles loop right
A2 8
balance & box circulate - ladles cross while gentlespoons loop right
8
partners swing
B1 8
circle left 3 places
8
neighbors swing
B2 8
long lines forward & back
8
square through two - partners balance & pull by right, then neighbors pull by left to ⁋
0
form long waves - ladles face in, gentlespoons face out

In the pull-by left, keep left hands and take right hands with a new neighbor to reform long waves.
For better entry, consider an allemande left 1/2 rather than a pull-by left, so that all hands are at the correct height for long waves.

Written for Joyce Fortune of the Bay Area, won at the auction of the 2010 Spring Fever dance camp at Monte Toyon, CA. She requested a dance with long lines, some balances, and a swing/circle/swing transition. (A surprisingly tough set of requirements to fulfill.) This sequence was the option she liked best.

Salmonella Evening

by: Steve Zakon-Anderson

introduces moves: petronella, pass through

formation: improper

A1 8
neighbors allemande right 1¾
8
gentlespoons allemande left 1½
A2 16
partners balance & swing
B1 8
balance & petronella
8
balance & petronella
B2 8
balance & petronella
4
balance the ring
2
pass through ⁋

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Cut to the Jack

by: Moose Flores

Saturday

introduces moves: slice, allemande orbit, form a long wave, pass by

formation: Becket

A1 8
slice left and straight back ⁋
8
gentlespoons allemande left 1¼ around while the ladles orbit clockwise ½ around
A2 4
gentlespoons form a long wave in the center - balance the wave, then "cut the diamond" ...
4
partners pass by left shoulders
8
ladles allemande right 1½
B1 16
neighbors balance & swing
B2 2
circle left 1 place
14
partners swing

Written for the winning bidder at the Dance Music & Spice auction.
Earlier, we had an excellent game of cribbage, hence the title.

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Trip to Chicago

by: Aden Water

GP Session

introduces moves: custom, box the gnat, pull by dancers

formation: Becket

A1 8
ladles allemande right 1½ to neighbor
8
neighbors swing
A2 8
gentlespoons dance in to a long wave in the center - balance the wave and STAY
8
ladles dance in to a long wave in the center, left hand to neighbor ladle, right hand with partner. Stay.
B1 8
facing star, ladles back up 3 places
8
partners swing
B2 8
neighbors right hand balance & box the gnat
4
neighbors pull by right across the set
4
partners turn to their right and single-file promenade to next neighbors

Wait out in Becket formation, partners on the same side ready to single file in and ladles allemande.