user: Moose Flores
Major Hey by Eric Hoffman
Flirting with Love Again by Cary Ravitz.
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"Helene's Storm Surge" by Tommy Linden
by: Ted Sannella
introduces moves: pass by, custom, petronella, turn alone, swing, down the hall, up the hall, circle
formation: improper
be alert on the ends!
| A1 | 2 | ones pass by right shoulders
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| 6 | and go left around one person to form a ladle facing down, gentlespoon facing up diamond +
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| 8 | balance & petronella around the diamond
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| A2 | 8 | balance & petronella
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| 0 | ones turn alone an extra half-turn to
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| 8 | partners swing
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| B1 | 8 | down the hall ones in the middle. Ones turn as a couple, twos turn alone
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| 8 | up the hall, ones cast
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| B2 | 4 | circle left 2 places to original places
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| 12 | neighbors swing on the sides ⁋
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+Ones cross over (passing right) and go left around one person into the middle of the set, ladle facing down, gentlespoon facing up so you form a diamond, the first gentlespoon with his original twos, but the first ladle with the twos above
https://www.cambridgefolk.org.uk/contra/dances/ted_sannella/fiddleheads.html
and mentioned in Colin Hume's teaching on End Effects https://colinhume.com/dtendeffects.htm
Major Hey by Eric Hoffman
Flirting with Love Again by Cary Ravitz.
by: Seth Tepfer and Rod Craighurst
introduces moves: meltdown swing, slide along set, star, allemande, balance the ring, pass through
formation: improper
| A1 | 16 | neighbors meltdown swing
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| A2 | 2 | slide left along set
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| 6 | star right 3 places with 1st 1st shadows
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| 6 | 1st shadows allemande right once
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| 2 | partners pass by left shoulders along
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| B1 | 6 | 2nd shadows allemande left once
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| 10 | partners swing
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| B2 | 8 | balance & petronella
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| 4 | balance the ring
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| 4 | pass through ⁋
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by: Dean Snipes
introduces moves: chain, form a long wave, Rory O'More
formation: Becket
| A1 | 8 | gentlespoons allemande left 1½
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| 8 | neighbors swing
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| A2 | 8 | ladles chain
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| 8 | star left - hands across - 4 places and a little bit more
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| B1 | 0 | ladles form a long wave in the center
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| 8 | balance & ladles Rory O'More right while gentlespoons Rory across
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| 8 | star right - hands across - 4 places and a little bit more
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| B2 | 16 | partners balance & swing ⁋
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by: Al Olson
introduces moves: hey, form long waves, box circulate, long lines
formation: Becket
Double progression
| A1 | 8 | gentlespoons start a left diagonal half hey - lefts in center, rights on ends
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| 8 | gentlespoons start a half hey - lefts in center, rights on ends
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| A2 | 0 | form long waves - gentlespoons face in, ladles face out Partner in right hand
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| 8 | balance & box circulate - gentlespoons cross while ladles loop right
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| 8 | neighbors swing
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| B1 | 8 | long lines forward & back
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| 8 | ladles chain
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| B2 | 2 | pass through across the set
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| 14 | partners swing ⁋
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by: Moose Flores, Devin J. Pohly
introduces moves: box the gnat, custom, square through
formation: improper
Designate 1's and 2's
Colonnade is a new sequence. It takes 16 beats and ends with everyone where they began, like a Hey. Have 2's also practice the colonnade during the walkthrough.
| A1 | 8 | star right 3 places
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| 8 | partners right hand balance & box the gnat
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| A2 | 16 | Colonnade - "1's Arch, Ladles trade: Colonnade!" +
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| B1 | 16 | partners balance & swing
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| B2 | 8 | ladles chain
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| 8 | square through two - partners balance & pull by right, then neighbors pull by left ⁋
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Coauthored with Devin J. Pohly during IndepenDance 2019 at the Waldorf school.
+ Colonnade: ones (join right hands to) make an arch and hold that arch for the entire figure. Ladles trade by right shoulders with ladle two going under the arch. Gentlespoons trade by right shoulders with gentlespoon two going under the arch. [stop here for 1/2 colonnade] Ladles trade by right, gentlespoons trade by right. Each trade has 4 beats of music, so there's no need to rush.
by: Jeremy Korr
introduces moves: contra corners
formation: improper
| A1 | 16 | neighbors balance & swing
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| A2 | 8 | long lines forward & back
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| 8 | ones right hand balance & box the gnat
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| B1 | 16 | ones contra corners (opposite role - first corners then second corners)
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| B2 | 16 | ones contra corners (same role - 3rd Corners then 4th Corners)
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| 16 | ones start a left diagonal full hey - rights in center, lefts on ends (with second corners)
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| 16 | ones balance & swing - end facing next neighbors ⁋
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Alternate ones and twos.
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by: Michael Fuerst
introduces moves: promenade, custom
formation: improper, but with 1's below 2's
Initially have dancers line up improper and emphasize they will progress in the direction they are now facing. Then
(a) Have everyone exchange places with their neighbor, so the 1's are below the 2's.
(b) Have dancers note the new person now next to them (on gentlespoons's left and ladle's right) as both their 2nd neighbor, and special person in the dance
(c) Also have dancers note a 3rd neighbor, two persons beyond beyond the second neighbor
| A1 | 8 | gentlespoons allemande left 1½
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| 8 | partners swing
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| A2 | 8 | partners promenade
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| 8 | ladles chain to neighbor, and roll away with half sashay
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| B1 | 8 | half hey, gentlespoons start passing right, partners pass left, ladles pass right and end facing "special person" (aka 2nd neighbor) ⁋
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| 8 | half hey, gentlespoons start passing left, partners pass right, ladles pass left, end facing 3rd neighbor
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| B2 | 8 | 3rd neighbors left shoulders around and return to 2nd neighbor
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| 8 | 2nd neighbors swing. (2nd neighbors then become new 1st neighbors)
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Before teaching B1, advise dancers there will be two 1/2 heys, each having gentlespoons passing shoulders, then partners passing, then ladles passing, before stepping to face a next neighbor
Dancers reaching the end of the set must face back in with the gentlespoons on the right, ladles on the left!!
(Actually, dancers reaching the end of the set after the first 1/2 hey of B1, should turn alone, wait during left shoulder gyre, and then face back into the set, with the gentlespoons on the right. But this nuance is more confusing than helpful, and its neglect only results in those out the end gyre-ing a person of the same role.)
http://aptsg.org/Dance/dances.html#Wheres
This dance borrows the two half-hey idea from Dan Pearl's "Eye of the Storm", and the roll away before a hey from "A Proper Potpourri."
Dancers gave this a lengthy ovation after its debut on Saturday night at the 1996 Breaking Up Thanksgiving dance weekend outside Chicago.
Martha Edwards of St. Louis would regularly bring her then teenage son Alex to many contra dance weekends. In a surprisingly short time, Alex became a most skilled dancer, and a favorite partner for all the ladles. Alex, Martha and I maintained a running joke about the impossible task of my writing a dance which everyone in the hall except Alex could do. On Saturday afternoon during the above weekend, I advised Alex and Martha that I'd call such a dance that evening. Alas, Alex was missing from the dance floor at the critical moment, so hence the dance now had a name. As of January 2015, Alex had never danced this.
"Helene's Storm Surge" by Tommy Linden