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- From: pearl@spectacle.sw.stratus.com (Dan Pearl)
- Newsgroups: rec.folk-dancing
- Subject: Re: Looking for author of "Stars of Joy" (contra dance)
- Date: 21 Jan 1993 15:05:30 GMT
- Organization: Stratus Computer, Software Engineering
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- In article <C15uKw.69G@ux1.cso.uiuc.edu> jsivier@ux1.cso.uiuc.edu (Jonathon Sivier ) writes:
- > Last Friday at our local dance the caller called a great dance entitled
- >"Stars of Joy". However he said he did not know who the author was. I would
- >like to call this dance, but I always try to give credit to the author.
-
- "Stars of Joy" was written by Kate Chaitin(sp?)"
-
- It is, of course, adapted from "Joy" by Lannie McQuaide.
-
- >Stars of Joy duple improper
- >
- >A1 - right star (hands across) 1 time
- > men drop out at home and ladies chain over
- Note that this is more like a 3/4 turn for the women. Emphasize in the
- teaching that the women chain to their NEIGHBORS here.
- >
- >A2 - hey for 4 (men return to original place)
- Of course, women start the hey passing right shoulders.
- >
- >B1 - ladies cross and swing partners
- You might want to specify that the women pass Right shoulders (as if
- continuing the hey). It that case, asking the men to "return to the
- original place" in preparation for the swing might be counterproductive,
- as it would leave the couples askew. Probably saying nothing about what
- the men do would be better.
- >
- >B2 - ladies chain over
- > left star (hands across)
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