user: Sarah Trop
by: Luke Donforth
introduces moves: do si do, swing, promenade, allemande, circle, balance the ring, California twirl
formation: improper
| A1 | 8 | neighbors do si do once
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| 8 | neighbors swing
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| A2 | 8 | neighbors promenade
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| 8 | ladles allemande right 1½
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| B1 | 16 | partners balance & swing
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| B2 | 8 | circle left 3 places
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| 4 | balance the ring
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| 4 | partners California twirl ⁋
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by: Perry Shafran
introduces moves: slice, roll away, long lines
formation: Becket
| A1 | 4 | slice left, on the way back ⁋
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| 4 | gentlespoons roll away partners with a half sashay
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| 4 | long lines forward, on the way back
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| 4 | ladles roll away partners with a half sashay
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| A2 | 8 | ladles allemande right 1½
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| 8 | neighbors swing
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| B1 | 8 | circle left 3 places
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| 8 | partners do si do once
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| B2 | 16 | partners balance & swing
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by: Michael Karcher
introduces moves: right left through, star, custom
formation: becket
| A1 | 8 | right left through
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| 8 | star left - hands across - 4 places
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| A2 | 8 | single file promenade along major set to new neightbors ⁋
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| 8 | star left - hands across - 4 places with the new
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| B1 | 16 | neighbors long swing
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| B2 | 8 | circle left 3 places
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| 8 | partners swing
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by: Isaac Banner
introduces moves: chain, pull by dancers, hey, meltdown swing, slide along set
formation: Becket
| A1 | 8 | ladles allemande right 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
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| B1 | 2 | gentlespoons pull by left (ladles drop out)
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| 14 | neighbors start a hey - rights on ends, lefts in center - until partners meet the second time
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| B2 | 14 | partners meltdown swing
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| 2 | slide left along set ⁋
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by: Isaac Banner
introduces moves: petronella
formation: improper
| A1 | 16 | neighbors balance & swing
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| A2 | 8 | neighbors promenade
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| 8 | balance & petronella
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| B1 | 16 | partners balance & swing
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| B2 | 8 | balance & petronella
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| 4 | balance the ring
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| 4 | partners California twirl ⁋
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Variation on Back to Front by Luke Donforth - swaps the ladles allemande for a more symmetrical petronella to follow up on the truncated double petronella in the A1 - on Luke's website he mentions - "I often think of Rory O’More and Petronella in happening in pairs, but the following two dances use them in singletons to transition into something else." It seemed appropriate to double up on single petronellas.
Rotated to de-becketize, which also brings it pretty close to Brain Dead Balance also by Luke Donforth, who based Back to Front on A-1 Reel by Chris Weiler and clearly had a similar idea because he also wrote Double Balanced Brain which is a more symmetrical version of either dance than this one (but without a petronella left, the coward).......dances aren't really "written" or "original" - the dances don't need us to write them, they've always existed.
BREAK
by: Becky Hill
introduces moves: pass through, turn alone
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 | 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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| 4 | turn alone
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| 8 | star right 4 places ⁋
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| 2 | pass through
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by: Will Mentor
formation: Becket
| A1 | 6 | circle left 3 places
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| 10 | neighbors swing
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| A2 | 8 | long lines forward & back
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| 8 | right diagonal ladles chain to 1st shadows [^1]
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| B1 | 8 | star left 4 places (with Future Neighbor & Shadow)
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| 2 | partners pull by right
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| 6 | 2nd shadows allemande left once
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| B2 | 16 | partners balance & swing ⁋
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https://www.ibiblio.org/contradance/thecallersbox/dance.php?id=17932
[^1]: after the courtesy turn with shadows, partners are next to each other, but in different hands four
by: Isaac Banner
introduces moves: box circulate, Rory O'More
formation: improper
A dance re-imagining of A Midsummer Night's Dream, written for Rosalie Banner on her 20th birthday. "Give me your hands [four], may we be friends, and Robin shall restore amends."
| A1 | 8 | balance & petronella to long waves, gentlespoons face out
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| 8 | balance & box circulate - ladles cross while gentlespoons loop right
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| A2 | 8 | balance & box circulate - gentlespoons cross while ladles loop right
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| 8 | balance & Rory O'More right
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| B1 | 16 | partners long 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 ⁋
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When teaching this one I make a point of identifying who is chasing whom in the box circulate, otherwise dancers will often find themselves a bit lost when they circulate away from their partner.