On 12/11/07, Tepfer, Seth <[email protected]> wrote:
> A friend in Seattle (Alan Cheetham) has written a contra dance with
> substantially weird end effects called broken corners. The dance is below,
> but the gist of the hook is you start contra corners, but with your first
> corner you allemande left 1.5 to have the TWOs complete the contra corners.
>
Sure, I'll throw in one I don't see myself testing
in the near or distant future. One of the problems
is that it may require a large set to test which
shadows you do the up-the-hall with.
Numbers in parentheses are estimated beats. Numbers
in brackets are footnotes. It's no coincidence there's
lots of those.
Interwoven Promenades (working title)
Chris Page, 4/2007
Improperish [*1]
A1 Down the hall in a line of four (6?)
Couples on the women's side turn as couples,
couples on men's side keep going. [*2] (2?)
Promenade/lead counterclockwise around the set [*3] (6?)
Couples currently on the men's side turn as couples,
couples on women's side keep going [*4] (2?)
A2 Up the hall in a line of four [*5] (6?)
Couples currently on women's side turn as couples,
others keep going [*6] (2?)
Promenade clockwise around the set. [*7] (8??)
B1 Women allemande right 1 & 1/2 (8)
Swing partner (8)
B2 With partner shift left (2)
New couple circle left 3/4 (6)
Swing neighbor, face down (8)
[1] Logically, where B2 would end. Same
starting point as the beginning of the A2
of "Nice Combination" -- facing down the hall,
next to neighbor, woman on the right.
[2] Men's and woman's side -- sides named
as per proper dance. "Promenade with men in the middle."
[3] While this is a promenade, you're still
working with the handholds of the line of four,
so it's better as a lead around the set holding
inside hands. But it's equivalent to a promenade.
[4] End effect curiousity -- some of the couples
that started out on the men's side are now on the
women's side, and verse vica. Best call for this
would be "all face up."
[5] Here, promenades merge into lines of four.
Your shadow's in the line of four. Which shadow?
That's where the testing is most needed -- I'm guessing
shadow number 3, 4, or 5.
[6] "Promenade with women in the middle."
[7] Is it short here by two beats?
-Chris
San Diego
