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Fall Ball, 23-25Oct.2015, Pinellas Park  JK @ TFOOTD

Host: Stan Prince.
Main caller: Luke Donforth.
Free Raisins.    Members: Audrey Knuth (Fiddle), Jeff Kaufman (Mandolin, Trumpet, Feet), Amy Englesberg (Piano, Accordion).

JK called one or two of the following dances.
WarmUp by Jerry Blum, Patti Gutwein, John Lenarduzz, Kathryn C. Millis, Josh Moses, Dave Notman, Bill Olson, Kate Power, Cary Ravitz.
[4-FACING-4: Has the “Awful ” move.]
In line facing you. The couple on the diagonal has your 1st-nbr. In the couple across from you is your 2nd-nbr. You are facing your “Original Direction”. , you have 3 swings, each ending facing a different direction. Your Partner-swing ends facing your original direction.

Lines-of-four, foward and back(8). Up/down: In little-groups-of-four, start a half-hey(8).
“All four , star halfway.” R-hands-across-star, halfway round till they see their 1st-nbr(8). Swing that nbr(8), ending facing across the set (i.e, like in long lines).

In your new little-groups-of-four, allemand-L 1.5(8) to their 2nd-nbr. Swing 2nd-nbr(8), ending facing Reverse Direction. Face partner, hands-4, circle left.

[Up/down in your new little-groups-of-four] Circle left 3-places(8). Swing partner, end facing Original Direction, in your line-of-four.
Its good if the music has an energy boost either on B1 [best] or A2. Also, kinda funky is good.


Fiddleheads by Ted Sannella.
[IMPROPER into a DIAMOND] TEACHING NOTES: Hand-4, then #1- and #2- swing. I'm going to put you in the diamond formation. Hands-4, to the left, take one step; You've turned your ring 1/8-th. ONEs in the middle, G-facing-up L-facing-down, TWOs facing across. #1-, look behind you, up the hall, to the #1- in the previous diamond. That's where you need to be; #1-, drop hands to walk to her position, and take hands with that diamond.

END EFFECT: The progression is Nbr-swing, in B2. TWOs, who progressed off the top, you are still Twos; when the Ones cross, a #1- will join you to make a diamond, but with no #1-.
Next time through the music, you have become ONES. This newly-minted #1- needs to cross the set and arc left. He will be facing-up in a full diamond.


ONEs pass-across the set [R-shoulders], then arc-left around one person [G-around-G, L-around-L] into the middle of the set, #1- facing down, #1- facing up, and takes hands-4 (8). [As the ONEs arc, the TWOs can come together and then push back.]
  You form a diamond, #1- with his original twos, but #1- with the previous TWOs [who were above in the set]. Balance-the-ring, petronella (4+4).


Balance, petronella (4+4), with the ONEs doing an extra half-turn to face partner; swing!(8)

DTHall Line4, ONEs in the center, between the TWOs you started with. ONEs turn as a couple, TWOs turn alone (4+4).. UTHall Line4, ONEs hand-cast to below their TWOs (4+4).

[Hands-4]Circle left halfway [to original places], Nbr-swing on side (4+12). [Give yourself plenty of time to open out.]
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Not all Earthquakes are Andreas' Fault by Jonathan King. (July 2013)
[BECKET: The Earthquake! shakes you from the-one-you're-swinging to swinging-the-next. (Triple-Swing version, single-progression.)]
[Before becketizing: Id DIR-PROG. Pass through up-down, takes hands4 with the next; these are your current nbrs. Your Previous nbrs are behind you. Now BECKETIZE.]

Star-R 3-places(8). With new couple “your previous nbrs”, star-L all-the-way(8).

[Face orig. Nbr; ONEs down, TWOs up]  Square-Through [Nbr R-hand bal and pull-by(4+2); w.prtnr L-hand pull-by across(2); w.nbr R-hand bal and pull-by(4+2); w.prtnr pull-by across(2)], to face current nbr. In this Square-Through: always turn right, turn left.

Swing curr.nbr(8). “Earthquake! You swing the next!” Face away from the-one-you-swung, and swing the next(8) [in your Dir-Prog.].

Circle-left 3-places(8). Partner swing(8).

Written for my Cocoa Beach friend, Andreas. First called at his dance.



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