user: Cherylyn Geers
Break
Walk cali twirl and A1
by: Tom Hinds
introduces moves: swing, right left through, chain, pass through, circle, do si do
formation: improper
| A1 | 16 | neighbors balance & swing
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| A2 | 8 | right left through
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| 8 | ladles chain
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| B1 | 2 | pass through across the set
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| 14 | partners swing
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| B2 | 6 | circle left 3 places
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| 2 | pass through ⁋
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| 8 | neighbors do si do once
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introduces moves: long lines, roll away, petronella, down the hall, up the hall
formation: improper
| A1 | 4 | long lines forward
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| 4 | ladles roll away neighbors with a half sashay
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| 4 | long lines forward
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| 4 | gentlespoons roll away neighbors with a half sashay
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| A2 | 8 | balance & petronella
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| 8 | partners swing, end in a line of four facing down
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| B1 | 8 | down the hall and turn alone
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| 8 | up the hall and bend into a ring
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| B2 | 8 | balance & petronella
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| 8 | neighbors swing and take hands with next neighbors in long lines ⁋
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Written at 3 AM at Summer CDH 2019. Sometimes the sequences just come to me, and when they do it can feel like remembering something I've never done. Named after a song from Celldweller's album Wish Upon a Blackstar.
by: Bob Isaacs and Chris Weiler
introduces moves: slide along set, allemande, box the gnat, pull by dancers
formation: Becket
| A1 | 2 | slide left along set ⁋
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| 6 | circle left 3 places
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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 face partner (gentlespoons back-to-back)
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| B1 | 8 | partners right hand balance & box the gnat (ladles back-to-back)
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| 2 | partners pull by right (to start half-hey with hands)
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| 2 | gentlespoons pull by left
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| 2 | neighbors pull by right
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| 2 | ladles pull by left
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| B2 | 16 | partners balance & swing
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by: unknown
introduces moves: star, promenade
formation: square dance
| A1 | 8 | ladles chain (heads)
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| 8 | ladles chain (heads)
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| A2 | 8 | star left 4 places (heads)
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| 8 | star right 4 places (heads)
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| B1 | 4 | first corners allemande left ½
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| 4 | first corners allemande right ½
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| 8 | partners swing
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| B2 | 16 | partners promenade around the set
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Adapted
For breaks: I teach grand right and left halfway and rollaway corner x4
by: Gene Hubert
introduces moves: hey
formation: Becket
| A1 | 2 | slide left along set ⁋
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| 6 | circle left 3 places
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| 8 | neighbors swing
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| A2 | 8 | long lines forward & back
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| 8 | ladles chain
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| B1 | 16 | ladles start a full hey - rights in center, lefts on ends
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| B2 | 16 | partners balance & swing
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Break
by: Variations on a Bill Olson dance, by Unknown and Aden Water
Walk cali twirl and A1
introduces moves: California twirl
formation: Improper
| A1 | 8 | neighbors right hand balance & box the gnat
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| 8 | star right - wrist grip - 4 places, face across
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| A2 | 8 | right left through, pull past partner
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| 8 | ladles allemande right 1½
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| B1 | 16 | partners balance & swing
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| B2 | 8 | partners promenade
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| 6 | circle right 3 places
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| 2 | partners California twirl ⁋
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/+ star back where you came from
Variation of https://contradb.com/dances/542 eliminates do-si-do for use outdoors.
Variation by Anet gives good flow after the promenade.
Rod's Grits Lawn variation collected from Liz Burkhart at MMiSL 2018.
by: Larry Jennings
introduces moves: meltdown swing, give & take
formation: sawtooth cw
| A1 | 8 | circle left 3 places
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| 8 | neighbors allemande right 1½
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| A2 | 16 | gentlespoons start a full hey - lefts in center, rights on ends
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| B1 | 16 | neighbors meltdown swing
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| B2 | 4 | gentlespoons give & take partners ⁋
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| 12 | partners swing and face next neighbors
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While this was originally written as a sawtooth dance and I've listed it here as such, it might be better to teach this as a clockwise becket dance with a slide left at the beginning as dancers have become better at moving back to the posts for the partner swing after the give and take.
by: Chart Guthrie
formation: improper
| A1 | 16 | neighbors balance & swing
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| A2 | 8 | ladles chain
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| 8 | ladles start a half hey - rights in center, lefts on ends
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| B1 | 16 | partners balance & swing
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| B2 | 8 | ladles chain
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| 8 | ladles start a half hey - rights in center, lefts on ends to new neighbor ⁋
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by: Bill Pope and Judy Goldsmith
introduces moves: balance the ring, zig zag
formation: Becket ccw
| A1 | 8 | long lines forward & back
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| 8 | ladles allemande right 1½
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| A2 | 16 | neighbors balance & swing
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| B1 | 4 | balance the ring
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| 4 | gentlespoons roll away partners with a half sashay Across the set
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| 8 | zig left zag right ⁋
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| B2 | 8 | gentlespoons allemande left once Next Gentlespoons, once and a bit
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| 8 | partners swing
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by: Cary Ravitz
formation: improper
| A1 | 8 | circle right 3 places
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| 8 | ladles start a half hey - rights in center, lefts on ends - gentlespoons ricochet
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| A2 | 16 | neighbors balance & swing
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| B1 | 8 | gentlespoons start a half hey - lefts in center, rights on ends - ladles ricochet
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| 8 | partners swing
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| B2 | 8 | right left through
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| 6 | circle left 3 places
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| 2 | pass through to next neighbors ⁋
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