user: Moose Flores
Saturday
GP Session
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.
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
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
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.
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.
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 ⁋
|
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.
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 ⁋
|
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 Annie, the winning bidder at the Dance Music & Spice auction.
Earlier, we had an excellent game of cribbage, hence the title.
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.