Cherylyn Geers 2025-02-03 Louisville, KY (1st half)

user: Cherylyn Geers

Too Hot to Trot var.

by: Eric Black

introduces moves: swing, chain, gyre, circle, balance the ring, pass through

formation: improper

A1 16
neighbors balance & swing
A2 8
ladles chain to partners
8
ladles gyre once in the center
B1 16
partners balance & swing
B2 8
circle left 3 places
4
balance the ring
4
pass through ⁋

Petronella Stompshake

by: Cherylyn Geers

introduces moves: petronella, star, custom

formation: scatter mixer

Hands four anywhere in the hall.

A1 8
balance & petronella
8
balance & petronella
A2 8
star left - wrist grip - 4 places
8
star right - wrist grip - 4 places
B1 16
neighbors balance & swing
B2 16
neighbors scatter promenade

Based on Petronella Milkshake but shifts the petronellas to A1 and takes out the circles in favor of the Stomp transition of petronellas to stars.

I like wrist grip here for scalability if some couples end up with hands more than four. That also opens up the possibility of one massive star at the end, à la Bob Isaacs at the end of Cold Pig/Warm Mud.

Hay in the Barn

by: Chart Guthrie

introduces moves: hey

formation: improper

A1 16
neighbors balance & swing
A2 8
ladles chain
8
ladles start a half hey - rights in center, lefts on ends
B1 16
partners balance & swing
B2 8
ladles chain
8
ladles start a half hey - rights in center, lefts on ends to new neighbor ⁋

Chippenham Square

by: Colin Hume

introduces moves: right left through, balance, allemande, promenade

formation: square dance

A1 8
along the set right left through (HEADS)
8
neighbors swing (SIDES with OPPOSITE) face the nearest HEAD couple in ring of four
A2 8
balance & petronella
8
balance & petronella
B1 4
balance
2
pass through
10
partners swing
B2 8
neighbors allemande left once (corners)
8
partners promenade to home (half-way)

https://colinhume.com/insts.htm#ChippenhamSquare

Non-progressive, so I would do Break, Figure for Heads, Figure for Sides, all that again, final Break.

Based on “Petronella Square” by Becky Hill and first called at Chippenham Folk Festival.

Simple Break 0

by: Colin Hume

breaks for Chippenham

introduces moves: do si do, custom

formation: square dance

Square dance breaks

A1 8
circle left 4 places
8
circle right 4 places
A2 8
partners do si do once
8
first corners do si do once
B1 8
first corners allemande left once
8
right & left grand halfway around
B2 8
partners promenade
8
partners swing ⁋
8
circle right 4 places
8
circle left 4 places
8
first corners allemande left once
8
partners allemande right once
8
first corners allemande left once
8
partners swing ⁋

From Colin Hume's website.

First break: acknowledge partners/corners in A1 and shift circles to B2.
Second break: A1-B2 (to progression mark)
Final break: between first and second progression marks

Thursday Night Special #1 (Becket)

by: Larry Jennings

introduces moves: long lines, down the hall, up the hall

formation: Becket

Circle one place to the left.

A1 8
ladles chain
8
long lines forward & back - ID next neighbors
A2 16
neighbors balance & swing, end facing down the hall
B1 8
down the hall and turn as a couple
8
up the hall and bend into a ring
B2 8
circle left 3 places
8
partners swing

As advertised, Thursday Night Special #1 but shifted by a phrase to make it Becket. Created to appease Nicholas Rockstroh by not ending with long lines. Saved so I wouldn't have to think as hard calling it.

A Pirate’s Life for Me (variation)

by: Nathaniel Jack

if time

introduces moves: form an ocean wave, Rory O'More

formation: improper

A1 16
neighbors balance & swing
A2 8
pass through to an ocean wave & balance - ladles by left in the center, neighbors by right on the sides
4
Rory O'More right, gentlespoons continue past each other, but catch left hands
8
gentlespoons allemande left once
16
partners balance & swing
8
ladles allemande right 1½
8
neighbors allemande left 1¾ to next neighbors

http://lists.sharedweight.net/pipermail/callers-sharedweight.net/2009-August/002149.html

Who doesn't like pirates? Not me. This dance was meant to be as raucous as I could make it, filled with stomping, spinning and swinging. It's fun.