Core Dances 2017

Dance Name	Formation	Source	Music
Fandango	3 Couple Longways	Apted 1774	Own Tune
Kelsterne Gardens	Longways Triple Minor	Playford 1728, 3rd Edition	Own Tune - 28bars
Winter Dreams YouTube Video	Longways duple minor,improper, single progression	Gary Roodman - Sum Further Calculated Figures	Winter Dreams Waltz - Jonathan Jensen
Michael and All Angels YouTube Video Has a slight variation in the final figures for display purposes	Longways duple minor, proper, single progression	Fried de Metz Herman, 1991	The Masque in Dioclesian, Air "Let Monarchs Fight" (1690)
Andes Anomaly Our very own YouTube video! Click here for additional notes on calling & dancing	Longways, becket formation, even number of couples	Cary Ravitz	32bar American Reel
Mr. Beveridge's Maggot	Longways	Dancing Master 1695, interpreted by Pat Shaw	16b own tune - triple time
Mary K YouTube Video	Longways duple minor, improper, single progression	Gary Roodman, A Finite Set of Calculated Figures, 2003	Own Tune by Dave Wiesler

Core dance pages from previous years

Hints and Tips on Notation

Our Hints & Tips for Andes Anomaly:

Our very own YouTube video!

Rory O'More: a move from the dance of the same name. Balance towards and away from the designated person then slide or spin across in front of them, to end facing in the same direction with the opposite hands joined with the same person. Lots of people try to spin the wrong way - you can push off with the person you balanced to if you spin the right way (your arm wraps across your body as you let go of the other person). If you are holding left hands with the person you are changing with, spin to the left. If holding right hands, spin to the right.
The spin is an embellishment because American contra dancers put spins in everywhere - the move is a slide past face to face.
Teach it like this then adds the spins later when people are confident of where they are going.
Rory O'More to the right: join R-hands, balance R then L then slide 2 steps R passing face-to-face to finish with L-hands joined. To spin put R-sh back and do a full spin - make sure you finish facing in the same direction as you started the move.
Rory O'More to the left: join L-hands, balance L then R then slide 2 steps L passing face-toface to finish with R-hands joined. To spin, put L-sh back to do full spin - make sure you finish facing in the same direction as you started the move.
It is crucial that people don't drift in the stars. They must be either St George (e.g. start of A2) or St Andrew (e.g. A1, bar 5). If one minor set goes wrong the rest of the major set is likely to collapse too.
At the end of a St George star each person is facing up, down or across - not into the centre of the star. This helps orientate for the next move.
In the first and third stars you are in the same star as your P; in the middle star you are in a different star to your P.
Everybody is moving all the time.
The dance feels very different as a 1 and a 2. It helps to walk the dance through once or twice, return to original places and dance it a couple of times. Then stop, return to original places and swap sides of the set; walk it again - everyone is now the other number. Then return to original places once more and dance it.

End effects:

At the ends of the set you get 3 men or 3 ladies starring together - this is NOT wrong - just keep dancing and it'll work like magic!
When reaching the end of the set you have 4b of pause - but don't even think about relaxing!
When there is no-one to Rory O'More with at the top or bottom of the set stand still and just turn to face the opposite direction.