Fast Hands videos: https://www.ibiblio.org/contradance/thecallersbox/dance.php?id=10031
Happy Wife, Happy Life videos: https://www.ibiblio.org/contradance/thecallersbox/dance.php?id=7077 And I can't seem to find the Hemphill dance I mentioned online. Perhaps I have the title or author wrong. On Mon, Apr 1, 2024, 2:32 PM Jerome Grisanti <jerome.grisa...@gmail.com> wrote: > Variations of swing thru: > > Double swing thru. This can be called as "swing thru, now swing thru > again." This is positionally equivalent to a half hey for four. This shows > up in the Jim Hemphill dance Swing into Summer. > > And four swing thrus would equal a full hey for four. The Diane Silver > dance Fast Hands uses this. > > Swing thru followed by a full allemande and the centers pull by shows up > in John Coffman's Happy Wife, Happy Life. > > And I've been playing with swing thru, boys run, which ends with couples > on one side facing up the hall, the ones on the other side facing down. But > that may be more than you want. > > > > On Mon, Apr 1, 2024, 2:11 PM Alan J Rosenthal via Contra Callers < > contracallers@lists.sharedweight.net> wrote: > >> >Could anyone point me towards some videos where short wavy lines are >> >featured? >> > >> >I'm interested in being able to watch different fun things that can be >> done >> >in SWLs... >> >> Assuming I'm guessing correctly that the length of a "short wavy line" is >> four people, you could look to modern square dance for ideas of figures. >> One of them is "Swing Through", where if for example you have a wave >> where the outer people have right hands joined and the middles have left >> hands joined, you drop hands in the middle and turn half by the right, >> then the new middles turn half by the left. More generally, you can do >> these outer and inner half-turns in any combination. >> >> Swing Through instruction and demo: >> https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cVRiXJvo0Mk#t=0m36s >> >> You can also trade down the line in various combinations, e.g. everyone >> trade with the person facing the same way as them (walking forward), >> which is called "Trade the Wave" -- instruction and demo at: >> https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RRQf5iPKhck#t=13 >> Various variants are possible (many of which have names in modern >> square dance), such as just one of the pairs trading by turning half, >> the middles turning half, the two ends trading (they would both orbit >> the others since they're walking forward), etc. >> >> >> Then, there are interesting ways to get into a wave: >> In addition to simply stepping forward into a wave, we have for example >> Follow your Neighbour: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2f0I5T7eIH0&t=78 >> Pass the Ocean: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cVRiXJvo0Mk#t=2m20s >> Dosado to a Wave: (I don't see a video for it in that series, but anyway, >> it's do-si-do but then keep going around a bit further to make a wave -- >> it's pretty much do-si-do followed by step to a wave) >> >> To get out of a wave, figures include >> Single Hinge: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D-7mY1jF7L4#t=1m25s >> Cast Off Three Quarters: >> https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YPnY5ko96C8#t=47s >> Explode the Wave: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2f0I5T7eIH0&t=14s >> "Recycle" generally seems to be more difficult for people. >> https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZCLNvlIjr1s#t=1m19s >> >> >> regards, >> ajr, dancing in and near Toronto, Canada >> _______________________________________________ >> Contra Callers mailing list -- contracallers@lists.sharedweight.net >> To unsubscribe send an email to >> contracallers-le...@lists.sharedweight.net >> >
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