Originally I had a slightly different B1/B2, which allowed a bit more
time, at the expense of losing one Rory slide. Here it is in full, although
just the second half is different:
Aurora O’More
19 May 2024
Becket
A1 (8) Rights and lefts
(8) Left hand star
A2 (8) Women allemande left once
Yes, the allemande in B2 is a bit tight. The allemande 1/2 is actually
less than 4 beats, and the
momentum helps launch the women into the orbit. There were some
scrambles there, but
there were actually more scrambles in the in the first orbit, when the
men were a bit slow to
turn out. It was
Allemande 1 1/2 in 8 beats is certainly possible, though doing half with one
person and once around with a different person probably makes the timing a bit
trickier than 1 1/2 with the same person. However, I think the timing of the
orbits halfway in 4 beats is also tricky, assuming 4 beats
Allemande 1 1/2 is only 8 counts!
On Thu, May 23, 2024 at 12:03 AM Joe Harrington via Contra Callers <
contracallers@lists.sharedweight.net> wrote:
> Interesting!
>
> Sorry to nitpick, but how did the B2 go? It appears there are 12 counts
> in the first half of B2 (allemande 1 1/2 = 12 counts).
Interesting!
Sorry to nitpick, but how did the B2 go? It appears there are 12 counts in
the first half of B2 (allemande 1 1/2 = 12 counts). Are you encouraging
them just to cheat in the extra beats by doing the allemandes faster? Did
that create the scrambles?
--jh--
On Wed, May 22, 2024 at
I've put together a dance with stars, orbits, shifting waves and Rorys, but no
planets (circles). Here it is:
Aurora O’More
Peter Foster 19 May 2024
Becket
A1 (8) Rights and lefts
(8) Left hand star
A2 (8) Women allemande left once around WHILE men turn out and orbit clockwise
halfway to
After a bit of pondering, I came up with the following to throw against
the wall and see whether anything sticks. It contains the two requested
elements plus a bonus eddy. It hasn't been danced outside of my head.
I don't know how to call it crisply. It does seem to me that for the
first
I agree with Greg, 4F4 is a natural setting for the originally described
motion. I got intrigued by a similar idea and developed a few a while back.
One has been tested so far - it went well (
https://www.ibiblio.org/contradance/thecallersbox/dance.php?id=16712 has
the video link).
As my site is
A2 Edit: The Larks Allemande here is also 1 1/2.
G
On Fri, May 17, 2024 at 1:10 PM Gregory Frock wrote:
> Hi Joseph et al.
>
> Saw this today, and here's what I came up with:
>
> Mescolanza (4 face four), Couples swap sides each time, start facing up
> and down
>
> A1: Opposite Larks Allemande
Hi Joseph et al.
Saw this today, and here's what I came up with:
Mescolanza (4 face four), Couples swap sides each time, start facing up and
down
A1: Opposite Larks Allemande Left 1.5 (8), Opposites swing (8) face across;
A2: Larks Allemande left (with line buddy lark) to short waves across
Angela, this is brilliant!
--jh--
On Wed, May 15, 2024 at 2:26 PM Angela DeCarlis via Contra Callers <
contracallers@lists.sharedweight.net> wrote:
> Love the title, Joseph!!! I wrote a dance in 2016 with similar celestial
> themes and figures for my friend and longtime contra, ECD, and waltz
Love the title, Joseph!!! I wrote a dance in 2016 with similar celestial
themes and figures for my friend and longtime contra, ECD, and waltz dancer
Dr. Bernard Whiting. He was one of the leading scientists responsible for
the historic first observation of Gravitational Waves. This dance describes
Hi Joseph,
Middlemarch (ECD Waltz time) has Allemandes turning into Orbits.
Depends whether you want the Orbiters to continue in the same
direction, or turn back to go the opposite way. That is a common figure known
as Allemande Orbits – you can see it in Sun
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