After a bit of pondering, I came up with the following to throw against
the wall and see whether anything sticks. It contains the two requested
elements plus a bonus eddy. It hasn't been danced outside of my head.
I don't know how to call it crisply. It does seem to me that for the
first
Katherine,
A few thoughts: First, I really like your approach of a monthly theme
with variations.
While square dancers know the configuration as an ocean wave, my
experience has been that in contra dance circles it's much more
frequently referred to by the far more descriptive term that you
ve this dance for uh, scientific purposes and
certainly not to sow chaos
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Maia McCormick (she/her)
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On Wed, Jan 24, 2024 at 10:02 PM David Harding via Contra Callers
wrote:
I've attended several workshops with this theme, led on different
occasions by Carol Ormand an
I've attended several workshops with this theme, led on different
occasions by Carol Ormand and Jo Mortland. A few of the exercises have
been described already, including teaching the dance to half of each
couple and not calling, messing with the music, dancing with pool
noodles, and dancing
The "Paddle Dance" is the same as "The Rose and the Thorn", "Fan Dance",
"Broom Dance", etc discussed a few days ago.
David Harding
On 7/9/2023 4:31 PM, Allison Jonjak via Contra Callers wrote:
I'm calling my first wedding dance at the end of the month, and the
family requested the "Paddle
A large fraction of the circle dances with sideways progression that I
have danced either start or end (or both) with a circle left, making a
progression to the left by both inner and outer circles quite natural.
That formation also allows the couples to be referred to as inners and
outers,
There is a specific old dance bearing the name "Sicilian Circle". You
can find it in, for instance, this 1857 instruction book from the
Library of Congress. https://www.loc.gov/item/musdi.094/ The name has
come to imply the formation and general pattern.
On 2/4/2023 3:49 PM, Joe Harrington
Good work! I would claim that a little variety on progressions is a
good thing. A pretty simple dance to introduce another progression is
"Broken Sixpence" by Don Armstrong.
I'd add a chain with a courtesy turn long before a R through with a
courtesy turn.
On 1/21/2023 7:17 PM, Allison
I remember a night when attendance was thin toward the end of the
evening and we did a series of contras in Beckett formation with double
progression. That worked well. Every once in a while the dancers took
it upon themselves to swap roles or do a non-standard progression to mix
it up a
Mark Twain was familiar with the concept of an ear worm.
https://acephalous.typepad.com/acephalous/mark-twain-a-literary-nig.html
Robert McCloskey's Homer Price also encountered an ear worm in "Pie and
Punch and You-Know-Whats", the last chapter of "Centerburg Tales".
Dancing with my wife last night, we found it more satisfying to do
almost all two-person moves with each other, whether the figure was
called called for partners, neighbors, larks, or ravens, rather than
doing them with ghosts. We're both experienced at dancing with ghosts
in a contra set,
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