SCT 12.19.25 Emerald City

user: Sarah Trop

Table of Contents

  1. Airpants by Lisa Greenleaf
  2. Another Last Dance by Erik Hoffman
  3. Train Delay by Maia McCormick
  4. You Can Get There From Here by Linda Leslie
  5. Fire in the Tunnel by Yoyo Zhou

  6. BREAK
  7. Don't Have to Walk but You Can Dance by Luke Donforth
  8. Star of the County Alameda by Yoyo Zhou
  9. Butter by Gene Hubert
  10. Every Second Counts by Jim Kitch
  11. Recombobulated by Chris Page


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Airpants

by: Lisa Greenleaf

introduces moves: swing, long lines, allemande, circle, do si do

formation: improper

A1 16
neighbors balance & swing
A2 8
long lines forward & back
8
ladles allemande right 1½
B1 16
partners balance & swing
B2 8
circle left 3 places
8
neighbors do si do 1½ ⁋

Another Last Dance

by: Erik Hoffman

introduces moves: star

formation: improper

A1 8
neighbors do si do once
8
ladles allemande left 1½
A2 16
partners balance & swing
B1 8
circle left 3 places
8
neighbors swing
B2 8
long lines forward & back
8
star left 4 places ⁋

Train Delay

by: Maia McCormick

introduces moves: slide along set, chain, box the gnat

formation: Becket

Shadow is next to you.

A1 2
slide left along set ⁋
6
circle left 3 places
8
neighbors swing
A2 8
ladles chain
8
star left 4 places
B1 8
shadows right hand balance & box the gnat
8
shadows do si do 1½
B2 16
partners balance & swing

In the second half of B1, pull by R at the start of the do-si-do for some extra momentum.

Written on a stuck train to Princeton, NJ, late 2014, and first called March 2015 in Silver Spring, MD.

You Can Get There From Here

by: Linda Leslie

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

formation: improper

Dance starts in short wavy lines: from improper formation, neighbors take right hands, ladles take left in the center.

A1 8
balance & Rory O'More right
8
balance & Rory O'More left
A2 16
neighbors balance & swing
B1 8
circle left 3 places
8
partners swing
B2 8
circle left 3 places and walk forward
4
form an ocean wave & balance - ladles by left hands and neighbors by right hands -forward and back
4
walk forward to ⁋
0
form an ocean wave - ladles by left hands and neighbors by right hands

Fire in the Tunnel

by: Yoyo Zhou

introduces moves: balance the ring, California twirl, square through

formation: Becket

A1 8
circle left 3 places
4
balance the ring
4
partners California twirl ⁋
A2 8
neighbors do si do once
8
square through two - neighbors balance & pull by right, then partners pull by left
B1 16
neighbors balance & swing
B2 8
circle left 3 places
8
partners swing

a request was made on the Contra Callers facebook group for any easy dances with balances halfway through both A1 and A2. Yoyo wrote this and commented it on the Facebook thread on October 23, 2019.

BREAK

Don't Have to Walk but You Can Dance

by: Luke Donforth

introduces moves: promenade

formation: improper

A1 8
neighbors do si do once
8
neighbors swing
A2 8
neighbors promenade
8
ladles allemande right 1½
B1 16
partners balance & swing
B2 8
circle left 3 places
4
balance the ring
4
partners California twirl ⁋

Star of the County Alameda

by: Yoyo Zhou

introduces moves: pull by direction

formation: improper

A1 8
neighbors right hand balance & box the gnat
8
star right 4 places
A2 4
pull by right across the set w/partner
12
neighbors swing
B1 8
gentlespoons allemande left 1½
8
partners swing
B2 8
partners promenade
6
star left 3 places
2
pull by left w/neighbor ⁋

Composed September 11, 2012

Choreographer's notes:

Often, when we pull across by the right hand, if we hold on too long, it leads to ladles turning over their right shoulder, which is bad for e.g. a right and left thru. But in this dance, it's good flow for the ladles to keep turning right into the neighbor swing.
Teaching notes:
* B2 needs to be zippy. After the star 3 places, we've come to original place.

Butter

by: Gene Hubert

introduces moves: hey

formation: Becket

A1 2
slide left along set ⁋
6
circle left 3 places
8
neighbors swing
A2 8
long lines forward & back
8
ladles chain
B1 16
ladles start a full hey - rights in center, lefts on ends
B2 16
partners balance & swing

http://dancevideos.childgrove.org/contra/contra-modern/437-butter-by-gene-hubert-becket

Every Second Counts

by: Jim Kitch

introduces moves: gyre

formation: improper

A1 16
neighbors balance & swing
A2 8
circle left 3 places
8
partners allemande right 1¼
B1 8
shadows gyre left shoulders once
8
partners swing
B2 8
circle left 4 places
8
ladles chain

end allemande in A2 with ladle 1 + gentlespoon 2 up, gentlespoon 2 + ladle 2 down

Recombobulated

by: Chris Page

introduces moves: petronella, meltdown swing

formation: Becket

A1 2
slide left along set to next neighbors ⁋
6
circle left 3 places
8
neighbors swing
A2 8
balance & petronella
8
balance & petronella
B1 8
star left - hands across - 4 places
8
gentlespoons allemande left 1½
B2 16
partners meltdown swing