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By Craig Shucker
Darryl presented a good dance featuring interesting applications of concepts: (1) from parallel two-faced lines -- Exchange The Boxes (2) from parallel two-faced lines -- Link Upper's Perk (3) from facing twin diamonds -- Centers Start Single Cross & Wheel (4) from a double pass thru -- Do Your Part, 3 By 1 Checkmate (5) from a formation formed from parallel two-faced lines and having everyone Triple Box Circulate 2 -- Triple Box Reach Out (6) from parallel ocean waves -- Once Removed Counter Rotate (7) from a formation formed from outfacing lines and having the beaus Quarter Right -- Own The Trailers, Wind The Bobbin by Finish Perk Up (8) from a tidal wave with girls on the end of each wave -- Own The Girls, Spin The Top by Swing Along (9) from a mini-wave -- Initially Stable, Shazam (10) from a tidal two-faced line -- Initially Cross Concentric, Cross & Wheel (11) from parallel right-hand ocean waves -- Initially Stable, Swing Thru (12) from parallel ocean waves -- Initially Stable, Recycle (13) from a tidal wave -- Initially Twice, Recycle (14) from a tidal two-faced line -- Initially As Couples, Cross The K (15) from parallel ocean waves -- Finally Stable, Spin The Top (16) from a formation formed from right-hand interlocked diamonds and having the centers Tag The Lines -- Outpoint Triangles Reverse Single Rotate 1/4 (17) from a tidal eight chain
thru -- Stable Tandem Touch 1/4.
Darryl taught a few diamond-related concepts from higher levels: Interlocked and Commonpoint. The difference between twin diamonds and interlocked diamonds is that those who Circulate to a very center position work to the farthest very center position rather than the nearest, and those who Circulate from a very center position work to the farthest point position ahead rather than the nearest. Darryl used the calls Interlocked Diamond Circulate, Switch To An Interlocked Diamond, and Interlocked Diamond Chain Thru. To explain commonpoint diamonds, I will use an example. We will start from right-hand twin diamonds and in the center wave have the centers Run. Now all the dancers Diamond Circulate. This results in a center wave and offset mini-waves. If the caller now specifies to work in commonpoint diamonds, those in the center line or wave are still the centers of a diamond, those in the mini-waves are sharing a point position, and there is a phantom point position on the other side of the centers from the commonpoint. All dancers follow the definition of the call and work using these four position. Darryl used Commonpoint Diamond Circulate and Commonpoint Diamond Chain Thru. Darryl also used quite a
few higher-level calls successfully, but he cued them rather than using
the names. These calls included 1/4 Mix, 3/4 Mix, Jay Right &
Left Thru, Jay Reverse The Flutter, Jay Square Thru 3, All 8 Counter Rotate,
Split Recycle, Pass & Roll Your Cross Neighbor, Chase Your Neighbor,
Turn To A Line, Cross Trade & Wheel, Wheel The Ocean, Change Lanes,
and several calls using the Checkpoint concept. Dancers also had
some difficulty with Spin Chain the Gears But Turn The Stars A Full Turn
and from a static square with Heads (or Sides) Box The Gnat and Square
Thru 4. On the latter the dancers kept trying to work split for the
Square Thru.
Top | A-2 Workshop | A-2 Dance | C-1 Dance | C-2 Dance | C-3A Dance Darryl used some of the calls and ideas from the workshop session, but also include a few more interesting calls: (1) from a double pass thru or a completed double pass thru -- Checkmate The Column (2) from facing same-sex couples -- Pass, Boys The Ocean, Girls The Sea (3) from asymmetric parallel ocean waves (one right-handed, one left-handed) -- Relay The Deucey (4) from a formation formed from a right-hand 1/4 tag and having the ends of the center wave Reverse Single File Promenade 1/4 -- Those Facing Start A Finish Chain Reaction (5) from twin or interlocked
diamonds -- Flip The Interlocked Diamond (same as Flip The Diamond except
that the very centers Interlocked Diamond Circulate)
This was primarily a dance session. Some of the more interesting calls Darryl used involved concepts: (1) from a formation formed from outfacing lines and having the centers Face In -- Shakedown (2) from twin diamonds -- All 8 Counter Rotate (3) from a left-hand 1/4 Tag -- Plenty (4) from left-hand 1/4 Tag -- Linear Action (5) from asymmetric parallel ocean waves (one right-handed, one left-handed) -- Relay The Top (6) from a formation formed from outfacing lines and having the right-hand couple Single Wheel -- Siamese Recycle (7) from a single-file column O -- O Peel & Trail (8) from parallel two-faced lines -- Stretch Wheel Around (9) from parallel right-hand ocean waves -- Vertical Left 1/2 Tag (10) from a tidal wave -- Concentric Hinge (11) from a tidal wave -- Triple Wave Explode The Wave (12) from a formation formed from parallel right-hand two-faced lines and having everyone 1/2 Press Ahead -- Triple Line Turn & Deal (13) sequence: from a formation
formed from parallel left-hand two-faced lines and having everyone 1/2
Press Ahead and then Triple Line Center Run -- Triple Wave Switch To A
Diamond; Center Wave Swing Thru; Triple Diamond Cut The Diamond
This was also primarily a dance session. Some of the more challenging calls included: (1) from parallel three-and-one lines with outfacing centers -- Ah So (2) from a T-bone box formed from a same-hand box and having the trailers Quarter In -- Criss Cross Your Neighbor (3) from parallel inverted lines with outfacing ends -- Split Counter Rotate (4) from a 1/4 tag -- Scoot & Plenty, Interrupt Before The Split Circulates With A Reverse Single Rotate 1/4 (5) from a formation formed from parallel single-file columns and having everyone 1/2 Circulate & Roll -- Grand Follow Thru (6) from a formation formed from parallel single-file columns and having everyone 1/2 Circulate -- Center Six 2 By 1 Checkmate (7) from magic columns -- Magic Transfer & Follow Thru (8) from parallelogram facing lines -- Parallelogram Square The Bases (9) from parallelogram facing lines -- Parallelogram Chisel Thru (10) from a trade by -- Stretched Box Stack The Line (11) from a formation formed from parallel right-hand single-file columns and having everyone Grand Extend and then having the infacers in the outermost pairs Run -- Center 6 Ramble (12) from parallel ocean waves with girls as trailers -- 1/2 Crazy End Girls Ripple 1 & 1/2 (13) from a formation formed
from right-hand twin diamonds and having the centers Lockit & Spread
-- 1/2 Reverse Crazy Turn & Deal
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