On 2/4/08, Rebecca Lay <rla...@gmail.com> wrote: > Any ideas? How would you categorize this dance?
Right now I have index cards with moves where I list all the dances with those moves. (Thus handling dances that have multiple features.) And yes, there's one labeled "Mary Cay's move." Entries on it are: David Kay's Reel (Bob Isaacs) (M2, W2) Eric on Mondays (David Kaynor) (M3) Family Tree (Gene Hubert) (W2, W2) Lost and Found (Tom Hinds) (M3) Mary Cay's Reel (David Kaynor) (W2) What Goes Around, Comes Around (Bob Isaacs) (W2) Whirlybirds on Hyperdrive (Bob Isaacs) (W2) (The whole M/W 2/3 bit is who's in the center, and how many people they allemande with in the center.) Whirlybirds of Hyperdrive is complex, and Lost and Found is rather inactive for the women, but the others are interesting. And most all of them correct for the person on the side, so there's no need to have the person on the side shift left/right like in Mary Cay's Reel. As for the dances that have no distinguishing feature at all, I give the the informal designation "Contra Slurry." (Perhaps a better-souding category would be "Contra Puree." Many of those right now are sitting in a dusty pile in my room marked "culled," along with a note on the card as to why it's been banished. -Chris Page San Diego
