[Callers] best number
Tom Hinds
twhinds at earthlink.net
Wed Feb 10 07:26:05 EST 2010
I have a dance that has some similiar moves. The A1 (top couple
arches) times out to the music perfectly if there's a total of 5
couples. However, I don't know how the other figures would time out
with 5 couples.
Tom
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> 1. Re: A Dance Called Gypsy Cap or Camp? (Martha Edwards)
> 2. Best number of dancers for this set dance needed (Rickey)
> 3. Re: Best number of dancers for this set dance needed
> (Alan Winston - SSRL Central Computing)
> 4. Re: Best number of dancers for this set dance needed (Colin
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> Message: 1
> Date: Tue, 9 Feb 2010 17:13:19 -0600
> From: Martha Edwards <meedwards at westendweb.com>
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> Subject: Re: [Callers] A Dance Called Gypsy Cap or Camp?
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> We've never noticed trouble with the Down the Hall, just with the
> contra
> corners when some in the group have not done contra corners the
> regular way
> before. But perhaps instead of
>
> Down the hall four in line (ones between the twos)
>
> it should read
>
> Down the hall four in line (ones between their original twos)
>
> The progression happens later, at the very end of the dance ("twos
> cast the
> ones down to progressed place")
>
> Does this help?
>
> M
> E
>
> On Tue, Feb 9, 2010 at 1:28 PM, joe micheals
> <joemicheals1 at yahoo.com> wrote:
>
>> Martha & Mavis,
>> This looks like a fun dance but when you've called it is there
>> confusion
>> about which 2's to pick up going down the hall? The first corners
>> or 2nd
>> corners?
>> Joe Micheals
>>
>> --- On Mon, 2/8/10, mavis mcgaugh <yankeecalls at yahoo.com> wrote:
>>
>>
>> From: mavis mcgaugh <yankeecalls at yahoo.com>
>> Subject: Re: [Callers] A Dance Called Gypsy Cap or Camp?
>> To: "Caller's discussion list" <callers at sharedweight.net>
>> Date: Monday, February 8, 2010, 9:07 PM
>>
>>
>> thank you so much for the sequences, title and Author.
>> Mavis L McGaugh
>> 510-814-8118 (answering machine-leave message)
>>
>>
>>
>> ----- Original Message ----
>> From: Martha Edwards <meedwards at westendweb.com>
>> To: Caller's discussion list <callers at sharedweight.net>
>> Sent: Sun, February 7, 2010 3:05:54 PM
>> Subject: Re: [Callers] A Dance Called Gypsy Cap or Camp?
>>
>> I think you may mean Gypsy Camp by Bob Green.
>>
>> *Gypsy Camp* by Bob Green Duple PROPER
>>
>>
>>
>> A1 1. Ones gypsy your partner,
>>
>> 2. Swing your first corner
>>
>> A2 3. Ones gypsy your partner
>>
>> 4. Swing your second corner
>>
>> B1. 5.&6 Ones gypsy and swing
>>
>> 7. Down the hall four in line (ones between the twos)
>>
>> Ones turn as a couple, twos turn alone
>>
>> 8. Come back, twos cast the ones down to progressed place
>>
>>
>>
>> NOTE: This is best done with a move I call ?Flirt and Twirl?. In
>> the Contra
>> Corners, Gypsy about half-way, then twirl over your right shoulder
>> into the
>> arms of your corner. -BG
>>
>>
>> M
>> E
>>
>>
>>
>>
>> On Sun, Feb 7, 2010 at 4:51 PM, mavis mcgaugh <yankeecalls at yahoo.com>
>> wrote:
>>
>>> I have a partial set of figures for a dance... I beleive it
>>> was called
>> A
>>> Gypsy Cap or Camp
>>>
>>> Intrigued me because it used a "Contra Corners" type figure done
>>> as -- 1s Gypsy Partner 3/4 and Swing 1st Corner then 1s Gypsy
>>> Partner
>>> 3/4 and Swing 2nd Corner - then 1s Gypsy and Swing in middle -
>> looks
>>> like they then go down the hall in a line of 4.
>>>
>>> my scribbling says Proper dance but .. my scribbles were
>>> pretty bad.
>>>
>>> Would someone have the correct sequences and ttile and an Author?
>>> thanks
>>> Mavis L McGaugh
>>> 510-814-8118 (answering machine-leave message)
>>>
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> Date: Tue, 9 Feb 2010 22:48:39 -0500
> From: "Rickey" <holt.e at comcast.net>
> To: <callers at sharedweight.net>
> Subject: [Callers] Best number of dancers for this set dance needed
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> Hi All,
>
> I have a set dance that currently is simply named "Shetland Set" in my
> collection. I am trying to figure out the best number of dancers
> for it. If
> you also have a name for it - fantastic, but the best number of
> dancers is
> my most pressing problem. The dance is below.
>
> Thanks,
>
> Rickey Holt,
>
> Fremont, NH
>
>
>
> SHETLAND SET
>
> Probably proper
>
> A1 Top couple arch down over the gent's line (lady in the center) /
> and up
> over the lady's line (gent in the center), back to place
>
> A2 Same top couple sashay to the bottom / and reel back up
>
> B1, 2 "Shuttle" to the bottom: one-half pousette (first man push to
> start),
> the top couple exchanging places with each subsequent couple, all
> couples
> except top couple can move together in the same direction as the
> top couple
> weaves to the bottom.
>
> My notes do not indicate this but I believe that it is common for each
> couple to swing their partner after the top couple passes them. If
> so end
> that swing proper.
>
> Seems to me that the reel would take more than part of the A2, and the
> "Shuttle" less than B1 and B2 combined. Do you recognize this dance?
>
>
>
>
>
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> Date: Tue, 09 Feb 2010 22:25:45 -0800 (PST)
> From: Alan Winston - SSRL Central Computing
> <winston at slac.stanford.edu>
> To: Rickey <holt.e at comcast.net>
> Cc: callers at sharedweight.net
> Subject: Re: [Callers] Best number of dancers for this set dance
> needed
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> Rickey wrote:
>
>
>> I have a set dance that currently is simply named "Shetland Set"
>> in my
>> collection. I am trying to figure out the best number of dancers
>> for it. If
>> you also have a name for it - fantastic, but the best number of
>> dancers is
>> my most pressing problem. The dance is below.
>
> This looks to me like "Foula Reel", which is in the Community
> Dances Manual as
> a four-couple set dance (and which I've danced that way to Bruce
> Hamilton's
> calling). Four couples is what you want to make the poussette
> thing work in
> the time available.
>
> I think the breakdown in my notes will answer your timing questions.
>
> Here's the notes I have:
> ----------------------------------------------------------------
> The Foula Reel
> CDM7 - "The Shaalds of Foula"
> (CDM gives two tunes with the same name, both jigs, NIB)
> Longways for four couples
>
> A1 (1-4) top couple lead down between the fours
> (5-8) [Strip the Willow] Arm right with partner 1.5,
> left with neighbor to move up one place, continue with 1x
> turns
> A2 (1-8) finish stripping the willow
>
> B1: (1-8) 1st couple, man inside, arch over men's lie down and over
> women's
> line up the set.
>
> B2: (1-8) Poussette with partners.
> (1st couple go the opposite direction from everybody else;
> everybody keeps moving all the way.)
> 1st man pushes, others pull; 1st man pulls, others push,
> repeat.
>
>
> Dave Hunt's Variation for B2 (via Mike Courthold on the ceilidh list):
>
> BOING:
>
> * Top cpl face and boing off each other's hands
> (ie clap once to each other with both hands);
> and cast around the neighbouring cpl
>
> * Repeat the boing and cast twice more to get to the bottom of the set
>
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> Message: 4
> Date: Wed, 10 Feb 2010 09:26:41 GMT
> From: Colin Hume <colin at colinhume.com>
> To: "winston at slac.stanford.edu, Caller's discussion list"
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> Subject: Re: [Callers] Best number of dancers for this set dance
> needed
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> On Tue, 09 Feb 2010 22:25:45 -0800 (PST), Alan Winston - SSRL Central
> Computing wrote:
>> A1 (1-4) top couple lead down between the fours
>> (5-8) [Strip the Willow] Arm right with partner 1.5,
>> left with neighbor to move up one place, continue with 1x turns
>> A2 (1-8) finish stripping the willow
>
> I do it giving 2 hands and a galop down (possibly Americans would say
> sashay) and I think it's only four galops (2 bars) - you need the rest
> of the 16 bars to strip the willow.
>
>> arch over men's lie down and over women's line up the set.
>
> You'll find there's not time to lie down!
>
> Colin Hume
>
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