Does someone have dance choreography for an easy contra that goes well with Wizard’s walk tune?
I know there was a “Grumpy” longways family dance written to go with it.
Thanks !
Claire Takemori
SF Bay Area
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Hi,
I don’t know if anyone can help me, but this is worth a shot. I recently viewed a video of a dance on youtube called by Will Mentor, at the Atlanta dance weekend, but I cannot find a name for it, and am struggling to get the full notation for it. I have attached the link for the dance below and any help would be appreciated!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BkXO3VOXu78&index=18&list=PL_1-nPBZes8RfQKh… <https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BkXO3VOXu78&index=18&list=PL_1-nPBZes8RfQKh…>
Many Thanks,
Liam Binley.
liam.binley(a)me.com
P.S. I’m a 22 year old caller from the uk, not sure if I’ve done this right!
Hi, Claire,
My favorite dance to pair with the tune "Wizard's Walk" is "Bev's Becket"
by Cary Ravitz: http://www.dance.ravitz.us/#bb. I find that the hey in A2
pairs well with the musical buildup in that phrase and that the balance at
the top of B1 pairs well with the musical explosion at the top of that
phrase.
Dugan Murphy
Portland, Maine
dugan at duganmurphy.comwww.DuganMurphy.comwww.PortlandIntownContraDance.com
>
> From: Claire Takemori <cht(a)mac.com>
> Subject: [Callers] easy dance to Wizard's walk ?
>
> Does someone have dance choreography for an easy contra that goes well
> with Wizard?s walk tune?
>
> I know there was a ?Grumpy? longways family dance written to go with it.
>
> Thanks !
>
> Claire Takemori
> SF Bay Area
Warning: rabbit hole ahead.
Colin: I read your text for your workshop. All useful stuff and you do say
more than "treat your partner as a neighbour".
Re Michael Fuerst's quote, I agree that end-effects are what they are and
they are not (necessarily?) the point of the dance, but they sometimes must
be dealt with head-on. Example: I have tried to make any sense of the end
effects in the dance The Hobbit
http://www.quiteapair.us/calling/acdol/dance/acd_283.html . I think it's a
great dance - if you can avoid the ends - but I'll be [darned] if I can
make it around the end successfully. I've tried calling it, walking thru at
a callers workshop with several experienced dancers and none of us could
make sense of the end-effects. We were missing some magical key to
understanding (perhaps guarded by Smaug). "Go where you are needed" wasn't
going to work. Nor were the other rules. Sometimes, it seems, the
end-effects must be taught just as the dance. No easy feat.
Colin Hume via Callers
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I'm not sure that dancing with ghosts is the best way to deal with end-effects
- I prefer "treat your partner as a neighbour".
I have a whole section of notes on End-effects at
https://colinhume.com/dtendeffects.htm
Colin Hume
Thanks for all the great ideas; it is much appreciated.
I was particularly intrigued at the thought of incorporating an MWSD figure
(I know squat about MWSD and had no idea there were so many figures.).
So, I've settled on a short list of 3 possibilities and, as it happens, our
community has a caller workshop this coming weekend so I'm going to ask the
dancers to suffer through the 3 options to see how the options dance, in
practice. I think the dance would work well with any of them but each
provides a somewhat different feel.
Ken
I agree that changing the rollaway so ladies roll their partners away
left-to-right fixes the issue I raised in A1 of "Tamlin's Cross." I think
it would be a fun variation on the rollaway-swing transition, which, in my
experience, is always done with gents rolling ladies away.
Dugan Murphy
Portland, Maine
dugan at duganmurphy.comwww.DuganMurphy.comwww.PortlandIntownContraDance.com
On Tue, Apr 10, 2018 at 4:11 PM, Luke Donforth <Luke.Donforth(a)gmail.com>
wrote:
> Hi Dugan,
>
> Thanks for the feedback! I liked the gents roll partner away (from R to L)
> when it went into a DSD (it feeds the common twirl direct); but I can see
> your concern when it's running right into the swing.
>
> Would ladies roll their partner (L to R) work better in your opinion? The
> gents would pick up the same clockwise rotation they have in a swing. It's
> more on the Ladies role to catch then.
>
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favor that might or might not be dance or music related that would be a
cheap, unique give-a-way?
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I am need of some choreographic gerrymandering from the braintrust.
I have the flow the way I want in a dance that first gelled about 10 years
but when some folks walked it through for me, more recently, they said,
"uh, Ken, I'm not swinging my N, it's my P."
"Dang," said I.
Here's the dance. the problem is "How do I get neighbours who are beside
each other in an ocean wave (A1) to the other side of the set for a swing?"
(A2) (short of calling on Mr. Scott for a teleport)
So, I need the first half of A2.
Return from Vulcan Becket
A1 (8) Cir L 1.0
(8) Slide left and cir 3/4 the next couple to a wavy line.
A2 (4,6,8?) (balance wave, not critical) get gent to other side of set with
neighbour [hmmm... Ladies alle L 1/2, P alle R 1/2, Gents alle L 1/2 - I'm
not convinced]
(12,10,8?) N Swing
B1 (8) Gents alle L 1.5
(8) Scoop P in star promenade/B'fly Whirl
B2 (8) Ladies alle R 1.5 while gents orbit CCW
(8) P Swing
Thanks for any ideas.
Ken Panton
