Re: [Callers] Women leading a star promenade?

2013-10-04 Thread Alan Winston At Slac
Yes it is. But lots of people don't do it. Sent from my iPhone > On Oct 3, 2013, at 8:16 PM, 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 >

Re: [Callers] Women leading a star promenade?

2013-10-04 Thread Eric Black
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

Re: [Callers] Women leading a star promenade?

2013-10-04 Thread Maia McCormick
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

Re: [Callers] Women leading a star promenade?

2013-10-03 Thread Eric Black
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

Re: [Callers] Women leading a star promenade?

2013-10-03 Thread Erik Hoffman
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

Re: [Callers] Women leading a star promenade?

2013-10-03 Thread Grant Goodyear
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

Re: [Callers] Women leading a star promenade?

2013-10-03 Thread Jack Mitchell
lt;maia@gmail.com> To: Caller's discussion list <call...@sharedweight.net> Sent: Thu, Oct 3, 2013 10:05 am 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

Re: [Callers] Women leading a star promenade?

2013-10-03 Thread Andrea Nettleton
;> Texas Star is a four couple star Promenade. >>>> >>>> There are several contemporary Contras that have ladies allemande to >>>> initiate a star promenade, so you're in good company. Happy composing... >>>> >>>> >>>> >

Re: [Callers] Women leading a star promenade?

2013-10-03 Thread Aahz Maruch
On Thu, Oct 03, 2013, Aaron Redfern wrote: > > 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

Re: [Callers] Women leading a star promenade?

2013-10-03 Thread Aaron Redfern
>>> Texas Star is a four couple star Promenade. >>> >>> There are several contemporary Contras that have ladies allemande to >>> initiate a star promenade, so you're in good company. Happy composing... >>> >>> >>> >>> Donna Hunt >>> >>> >

Re: [Callers] Women leading a star promenade?

2013-10-03 Thread Alan Winston
al Message- From: Maia McCormick <maia@gmail.com> To: Caller's discussion list <call...@sharedweight.net> Sent: Thu, Oct 3, 2013 10:05 am Subject: [Callers] Women leading a star promenade? Came up against this question while writing a dance the other day: women leading men into a st

Re: [Callers] Women leading a star promenade?

2013-10-03 Thread Andrea Nettleton
ate > a star promenade, so you're in good company. Happy composing... > > > > Donna Hunt > > > > > > -Original Message- > From: Maia McCormick <maia@gmail.com> > To: Caller's discussion list <call...@sharedweight.net> > Sent

Re: [Callers] Women leading a star promenade?

2013-10-03 Thread Janet Bertog
:05 AM To: Caller's discussion list 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