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By Craig Shucker
Barry presented a challenging program concentrating on the application of concepts: (1) from crossed right-hand two-faced lines -- All Eight 3/4 Wheel The Ocean (2) from offset waves with the outfacing ends as the outermost dancers -- Offset Waves 1/4 The Deucey (3) from an out-facing lines parallelogram -- Parallelogram Trip The Set (4) from a formation formed from infacing lines and having all the ends Slide Out one position -- Disconnected Plan Ahead (5) from a formation formed from a left-hand 1/4 Tag and having the outside beaus 1/4 in -- Jay Funny Square Thru 3 (6) from a formation formed from a tidal line and having the centers of each line of 4 Single Wheel -- Inside Triangles Exchange The Triangles (7) from a formation formed from a right-hand column stagger with the #1 dancers as the ends of the main diagonal and having the #1 dancers U-Turn Back -- Big Block Sets In Motion (8) from a lefthand column
stagger with the #4 dancers as the ends of the main
(9) from a tidal column formation with the boys in a center single trade-by and the girls facing on each end -- Girls Stable, All Once Removed Single Turn To A Line (10) from a formation formed from parallel right-hand two-faced lines and having everyone Press Back -- Split Phantom Columns Something New (11) from parallel inverted lines with out-facing ends -- Split Phantom Lines Once Removed Circulate (12) from a right-hand column stagger with the #1 dancers as the ends of the main diagonal -- Split Phantom Lines Exchange The Boxes 1/4 (13) from offset in-facing lines with the right-hand couples in the center line -- Start With Triple Lines Lockit, Everybody (Finish) Tally Ho (14) from parallel two-faced lines -- Start With As Couples Reach Out, (Finish) Relay The Shadow (15) from parallel ocean waves -- Finally Twice, Scoot Chain Thru (16) from a formation formed
from parallel left-hand two-faced lines and having the leads Press Ahead
-- Initially Split Phantom Lines, Wheel The Sea Coordinate
At this session Barry taught the "But" concept. Although this is a C-4 concept, it is simply an abbreviated way of specifying the type of call modifications that our dancers have experienced previously. The concept is presented as [call #1] but [call #2]: the dancers execute call #1 except that the dancers who are the centers for the last part of the call replace the call they would normally execute with call #2. For example, in a "Spin Chain Thru But Single Wheel & Roll" the dancers would execute the Spin Chain Thru but the final Centers Cast Off 3/4 would be replaced by the Single Wheel & Roll, ending in parallel two-faced lines. Note that some higher-level calls have a predefined "But" which are not consistent with this concept. Some of the "But" calls used were : (1) from a 1/4 Tag -- Chain Reaction But Left Swing Thru (2) from a 1/4 Tag -- Chain Reaction But Explode The Wave (3) from a 1/4 Tag -- Chain Reaction But Fan The Top (4) from parallel ocean waves -- Motivate Explode The Wave (5) from parallel ocean waves -- Motivate But Linear Cycle (6) from parallel right-hand ocean waves -- Motivate But Left Swing Thru (7) from parallel right-hand ocean waves -- Relay The Deucey But Left Swing Thru (8) from parallel right-hand ocean waves -- Relay The Deucey But Left Turn Thru (9) from an eight chain thru -- Eight Chain 4 But Swing Thru (10) from in-facing lines -- Load The Boat But Single Circle To A Wave (11) from a 1/4 Tag -- Spin The Windmill In But Linear Cycle (12) from a 1/4 Tag -- Spin The Windmill Right But Single Wheel (13) from a Double Pass Thru -- Spin The Windmill Right But Hinge & Cross (14) from parallel ocean waves -- Spin The Top But U-Turn Back (15) from parallel left-hand ocean waves with boys as the center of each wave -- Spin The Top But Turn Thru & The Boys Roll. Other interesting calls used included: (1) from a facing diamond with right-hand centers - Remake (2) from parallel twofaced lines -- 1/2 Trade Circulate (3) from a formation formed
from right-hand two-faced lines and having the centers Box Counter Rotate
-- Ends Cast A Shadow While The Centers 1/4 Thru
Barry reviewed and continued to use the "But" concept, did a mini-review of "& Spread", as well as added some other interesting calls: (1) from parallel two-faced lines -- Mini Busy But Diamond Circulate (2) from parallel two-faced lines -- Mini Busy But Cut The Diamond (3) from parallel ocean waves -- Mix But Follow Your Neighbor & Spread (4) from parallel ocean waves -- Spin Chain The Gears But Tag The Line (5) from parallel ocean waves -- Spin Chain The Gears But Swing & Mix (6) from an eight chain thru -- Pass To The Center & Spread (7) from a trade by -- Trade By & Spread (8) from parallel right-hand ocean waves - 1/4 Thru & Spread (9) from outfacing lines, a completed double pass thru, or parallel ocean waves -- Acey Deucey & Spread (10) from twin diamonds -- Acey Deucey (11) from parallel inverted lines with infacing ends -- Crossover Circulate & Roll (12) from a facing diamond -- Crossfire & Roll (13) from parallel 3-and-1
lines with in-facing ends and a center right-hand box -- Coordinate
Although Barry did a quick teach of the "But" concept, the majority of the session was a solid mixture of calls and concepts: (1) from out-facing lines -- Reverse Explode (2) from a formation formed from a 3/4 tag and having the outside beaus Run -- Chain Reaction (3) from out-facing lines or parallel 3-and-1 lines -- Switch The Line (4) from a formation formed from parallel inverted lines with out-facing ends and having those in the left-hand mini-waves Hinge -- (Do the first part Phantom) Tally Ho (5) from a formation formed from a eight chain thru consisting of normal couples and having all dancers Rotary Spin & The Boys Roll -- Tally Ho (6) from facing lines -- Square The Bases But Swing Thru (7) from parallel waves -- Relay The Top But Hinge & Cross (8) from parallel waves -- Relay The Top But Alter The Wave (9) from parallel inverted lines with in-facing ends - Stretch Step & Fold (10) from point-to-point
facing diamonds - Stretch Cut The Diamond
This dance session was quite challenging, especially Barry's use of the "Disconnected" concept: (1) from disconnected magic column in a 2x6 formation where the ends are on the outermost positions in right-hand miniwaves and the centers are in a center left-hand box -- Disconnected Magic 3 By 1 Transfer The Column (2) from a tidal line with alternating sexes starting with boys as the very centers -- Same Sex Disconnected Centers Kick Off (3) from a tidal wave with alternating sexes starting with boys as the very centers -- Same Sex Disconnected Crossfire (4) from a tidal two-faced line with boys as the ends of each two-faced line -- Same Sex Disconnected Ah So (5) from a formation formed
from in-facing lines with normal couples and having all the dancers Touch
1/4 and 1/2 Column Circulate & Roll -- Same Sex Disconnected Follow
Thru
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