user: Kenny Greer
No Walkthrough
Urban Modern Groove by Bob Isaacs
Waltz/Break
No Walkthrough
Heystack by George Walker
Halloween Twist by Melanie Axel-Lute
by: Tori Barone
No Walkthrough
introduces moves: meltdown swing, long lines, allemande, swing, circle, pass through
formation: improper
| A1 | 16 | neighbors meltdown swing
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| A2 | 8 | long lines forward & back
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| 8 | ladles allemande right 1½
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| B1 | 16 | partners balance & swing
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| B2 | 8 | long lines forward & back
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| 6 | circle left 3 places
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| 2 | pass through ⁋
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by: Gene Hubert
introduces moves: down the hall, up the hall, chain, star
formation: improper
| A1 | 16 | neighbors balance & swing end facing down the hall
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| A2 | 8 | down the hall and turn as a couple
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| 8 | up the hall and bend into a ring
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| B1 | 8 | circle left 3 places
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| 8 | partners swing
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| B2 | 8 | ladles chain
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| 8 | star left 4 places ⁋
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by: Gene Hubert
introduces moves: hey
formation: Becket
| A1 | 2 | ladles allemande right ½
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| 4 | neighbors allemande left ¾ ⁋
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| 10 | next neighbors swing
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| A2 | 8 | circle left 3 places
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| 8 | partners swing
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| B1 | 8 | ladles chain
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| 8 | ladles chain
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| B2 | 16 | ladles start a full hey - rights in center, lefts on ends
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Gene's Notes: "Any doubts I had about this dance were erased after I had a chance to dance it once. This has got to be one of the smoothest dances I have seen in a long while and which you must experience to fully appreciate. My goal in writing this dance was to create a Becket formation dance with both a partner swing and a neighbor swing. Halliehurst is a splendid old mansion on the grounds of Davis & Elkins College in Elkins, West Virginia on whose front porch many impromptu contra dances have taken place."
(source: http://www.quiteapair.us/calling/acdol/dance/acd_59.html)
I generally think of a full chain as something to write into a dance as a way to fill time in the absence of a better idea, but Gene proves with this dance that it can serve a purpose. This dance has some of the absolute best momentum I've ever experienced, and it all comes back to the windup from the full chain. Consider shifting the opening of the dance to the B1 so that the partner swing comes at the end of the dance. That way the momentum buildup is uninterrupted middance.
introduces moves: roll away, mad robin
formation: improper
| A1 | 4 | long lines forward
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| 4 | gentlespoons roll away neighbors with a half sashay
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| 8 | mad robin, gentlespoons in front
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| A2 | 8 | star right - hands across - 4 places
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| 8 | ladles allemande right 1½
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| B1 | 16 | partners balance & swing
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| B2 | 6 | circle left 3 places
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| 10 | neighbors swing ⁋
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Very clockwise, keep in mind if intending to call with other dizzying dances.
Urban Modern Groove by Bob Isaacs
by: Andrea Nettleton
introduces moves: petronella, slide along set
formation: Becket
| A1 | 8 | ladles allemande right 1½
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| 8 | neighbors swing
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| A2 | 8 | long lines forward & back
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| 8 | gentlespoons allemande left 1½ to trade places
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| B1 | 8 | balance & petronella
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| 8 | balance & petronella
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| B2 | 14 | partners balance & swing
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| 2 | slide left along set ⁋
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Waltz/Break
by: Becky Hill
No Walkthrough
formation: improper
| A1 | 16 | neighbors balance & swing
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| A2 | 8 | gentlespoons allemande left 1½
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| 8 | partners swing
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| B1 | 8 | ladles chain
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| 8 | balance & petronella
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| B2 | 8 | balance & petronella
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| 8 | star left 4 places ⁋
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by: Rick Mohr
introduces moves: form an ocean wave, form long waves, balance
formation: improper
| A1 | 6 | gentlespoons allemande left once
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| 10 | neighbors 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 | ladles allemande right 1½ - don't let go
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| B2 | 4 | form an ocean wave & balance - ladles by right hands and neighbors by left hands
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| 4 | neighbors allemande left ¾ to long wavy lines
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| 0 | form long waves - ladles face in, gentlespoons face out ⁋
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| 4 | balance
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| 4 | next neighbors allemande right ¾
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by: Ridge Kennedy
introduces moves: Rory O'More, give & take, balance the ring
formation: improper
| A1 | 8 | balance & Rory O'More right
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| 8 | balance & Rory O'More left
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| A2 | 16 | neighbors balance & swing
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| B1 | 4 | gentlespoons give & take partners
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| 12 | partners swing
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| B2 | 8 | circle left 3 places
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| 4 | balance the ring
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| 4 | pass through to new waves ⁋
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Can also make waves in B2 and balance those
Heystack by George Walker
Halloween Twist by Melanie Axel-Lute
by: Gene Hubert
formation: improper
| A1 | 8 | long lines forward & back
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| 8 | neighbors allemande left 1¾
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| A2 | 0 | form an ocean wave - ladles by right hands and neighbors by left hands
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| 8 | balance & ladles Rory O'More right
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| 8 | partners swing
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| B1 | 6 | ladles start a half hey - rights in center, lefts on ends
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| 10 | partners allemande left twice
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| B2 | 0 | form an ocean wave - gentlespoons by right hands and partners by left hands
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| 8 | balance & gentlespoons Rory O'More right
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| 8 | neighbors swing ⁋
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