user: Chet Gray
Ellen's Green Jig (variation) by Roy Dommett, var. Chip Hedler
Rock the Cradle, Joe by Ridge Kennedy
Ellen's Green Jig (variation) by Roy Dommett, var. Chip Hedler
by: Scott Higgs
introduces moves: swing, long lines, chain, allemande, circle, do si do
formation: improper
| A1 | 16 | neighbors balance & swing
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| A2 | 8 | long lines forward & back
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| 8 | ladles chain
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| B1 | 6 | ladles allemande right once
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| 10 | partners swing
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| B2 | 8 | circle left 3 places
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| 8 | neighbors do si do 1½ ⁋
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by: Gene Hubert
introduces moves: down the hall, up the hall, 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: Chris Page
introduces moves: custom, turn alone, promenade
formation: scatter mixer
Begin in any number of rings of any number of dancers anywhere in the hall
| A1 | 4 | ring go forward - "into the middle, say goodbye"
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| 4 | turn alone - "turn alone, away you fly" ⁋
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| 4 | individual scatter promenade - "scatter 'round"
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| 4 | find a new partner - "catch someone's eye"
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| A2 | 8 | partners do si do once - "say hello with a do si do"
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| 8 | partners swing - "swing this partner high and low"
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| B1 | 8 | partners promenade scatter - "promenade now on the heel and toe"
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| 8 | join in rings of any number of couples
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| B2 | 8 | circle left 4 places
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| 8 | circle right 4 places
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Chet Gray's personal notes:
I will often include some number of further variations:
- Begin and/or end in one big ring
- Begin with the circle left (B2), end with partners promenade up to the top of the hall
- Begin with the partners promenade (B1), end with the partners swing
- - Have everyone find their original partners for the final partners swing
- Invite people to find more than one person for the do si do and swing, now a basket swing
- - "dos-a-two or dos-a-three, thou swing'st them and they'll swing thee"More patter:
- "two or four or six or eight, circle when you find them and don't be late"
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by: Don Flaherty
introduces moves: petronella, balance the ring, gyre, balance, California twirl
formation: improper
| A1 | 8 | balance & petronella
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| 8 | balance & petronella
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| A2 | 4 | balance the ring
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| 12 | neighbors swing
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| B1 | 8 | ladles gyre 1½
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| 8 | partners swing
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| B2 | 8 | circle left 3 places
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| 4 | partners balance
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| 4 | partners California twirl ⁋
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introduces moves: pass through, form long waves, Rory O'More
formation: Becket
| A1 | 6 | circle left 3 places
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| 2 | pass through to next neighbors ⁋
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| 8 | neighbors allemande right 1½
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| A2 | 0 | form long waves - gentlespoons face in, ladles face out
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| 8 | balance & Rory O'More right
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| 8 | balance & Rory O'More left
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| B1 | 16 | neighbors balance & swing
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| B2 | 8 | circle left 3 places
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| 8 | partners swing
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http://www.maxellute.net/cats.html
This dance is something like Peter Stix's "#1 Grade A Top Quality Cats #2" with Rory O'More moves added. Hence the name.
by: Chris Page
introduces moves: custom, meltdown swing
formation: triple minor, triad formation
Take a standard proper triple minor. 1s and 2s cross over, and then 2s and 3s circle left 1/4. Chris describes it as 1s improper, 2s and 3s Becket. For more on Triad formation, see "TLC Tempest."
| A1 | 8 | balance & petronella [3]
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| 8 | balance & petronella
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| A2 | 8 | balance & petronella [4]
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| 8 | star left 3 places **3 Gentlespoons** [5]
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| B1 | 16 | grand right & left - partner right, left, right, partner left, right, left [6]
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| B2 | 16 | partners meltdown swing [7] ⁋
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http://chrispagecontra.awardspace.us/dances/index.htm#whirlpool
[1] Starting formation: Take a standard proper triple minor. Ones and twos cross over, and then twos and threes circle left 1/4. I describe it as ones improper, twos and threes Becket. For more on Triad formation, see "TLC Tempest."
[2] Twos and threes progress up, staying with each other, but swapping sides as they travel up. Ones progress down past two couples.
End effects at the top: Every third time through the dance, two couples get spit out at the top. The both wait out improper, one below the other. One will get in the next time, the other will have to wait until the time after that.
End effects at the bottom: Couples just wait out on the sides, Becket-like, for a full hands-six to form. Since this is double progression, there shouldn't be any couples at the bottom accidentally trapped there forever.
[3] All six. For the petronella turn, everyone move one position to their right.
[4] Everyone is now progressed. All the remaining moves finish where they started.
[5]Menease out of the star a tiny bit early so everyone's facing their partner around the circle of six.
[6] Within the group of six.
[7] Or balance and swing. After the swing, ones face down. Twos and threes face uppish and across, having swapped sides.There's no need to mention who are twos and threes. Just call them "side couples".
After testing "Because It Was There," I realized a grand right and left was a good thing to put in a regular-length contra. This was the result, which worked surprisingly well. It's also helped by a low piece count.
by: Gene Hubert
introduces moves: box the gnat, pull by dancers, right left through
formation: improper
| A1 | 4 | neighbors box the gnat
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| 4 | gentlespoons pull by left
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| 8 | partners swing
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| A2 | 8 | circle left 4 places
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| 8 | partners do si do once
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| B1 | 4 | partners box the gnat
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| 4 | ladles pull by left
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| 8 | neighbors swing
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| B2 | 8 | right left through
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| 8 | star left 4 places ⁋
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Rock the Cradle, Joe by Ridge Kennedy