Yes it is. But lots of people don't do it.
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> On Oct 3, 2013, at 8:16 PM, Maia McCormick wrote:
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> This is maybe a silly question, but in an allemande to a star promenade, is
> it assumed that the allemanders will keep their allemande until they've
>
At 11:16 PM -0400 10/3/13, Maia McCormick wrote:
This is maybe a silly question, but in an allemande to a star promenade, is
it assumed that the allemanders will keep their allemande until they've
brought the promenade-ee across the set?
I would think yes, otherwise it's an allemande or
This is maybe a silly question, but in an allemande to a star promenade, is
it assumed that the allemanders will keep their allemande until they've
brought the promenade-ee across the set?
On Thu, Oct 3, 2013 at 10:58 PM, Eric Black wrote:
> At 12:48 PM -0700 10/3/13, Alan
At 12:48 PM -0700 10/3/13, Alan Winston wrote:
Not to hijack this completely, but dancing a man's role in a
men-allemande star promenade is also often really unsatisfying.
Something like 20% of the men I run into line (in the SF Bay Area)
just let go of me as soon as they've picked up their
Hi All,
There Is No Way to Peace; Peace Is the Way, was originally written as
hand hold star promenades. I think Chart Guthrie told me about using
elbow turns, and it's been that way for me ever since. Might have been
someone else... It does make the star promenades a bit tighter and the
On Thu, Oct 3, 2013 at 3:32 PM, Jack Mitchell wrote:
> I believe that elbow turns were the original version for that particular
> dance -- at least they were in the version I collected something like 10
> years ago.
The Folk process at work
The elbow turns are in
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Subject: [Callers] Women leading a star promenade?
Came up against this question while writing a dance the other day: women
leading men into a star promenade and butterfly
;> Texas Star is a four couple star Promenade.
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>>>> There are several contemporary Contras that have ladies allemande to
>>>> initiate a star promenade, so you're in good company. Happy composing...
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On Thu, Oct 03, 2013, Aaron Redfern wrote:
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> Alan, I just had a moment of revelation with regard to the inside
> pair pushing off each other into the butterfly whirl, and I'll see if
> I can pull it off in the future. I think the main problem, though,
> is that there's never enough room in the
>>> Texas Star is a four couple star Promenade.
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>>> There are several contemporary Contras that have ladies allemande to
>>> initiate a star promenade, so you're in good company. Happy composing...
>>>
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>>> Donna Hunt
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Subject: [Callers] Women leading a star promenade?
Came up against this question while writing a dance the other day: women
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> a star promenade, so you're in good company. Happy composing...
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> Donna Hunt
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Subject: [Callers] Women leading a star promenade?
Came up against this question while writing a dance the other day: women
leading men into a star promenade and butterfly whirl? Does this happen?
Are there compelling reasons for me not write it into a dance
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