Catie's Quartet
Introduction
Author:
Michael Barraclough (2011)
Formation:
Two couple becket
Music:
Specific tune - Sperantsa Pierduta by Cathie Whitesides (Dm, 3/4)
Choreography
A1/A2
1-2
(Holding hands in a ring, starting right foot) set forward & back on the left diagonal (ending one place cw around the set)
3-6
Repeat twice more
7-8
Set right & left (on the spot, honoring the set)
9-32
Repeat 3 more times
B1/B2
1-3
Circle left 3 places
4
Couple facing up merge into the center of a line of four facing up
5-6
Line leads up and back
7-8
Ends gate the centers back into a ring
9-32
Repeat 3 more times (ladies wall; down; mens wall)
A3/A4
1-4
Partner side-by-side right shoulder & back (end facing into the set)
5-6
Cast right one place (ccw, over left shoulder)
7-8
Set right & left (on the spot, honoring the set)
9-32
Repeat 3 more times (opposite; partner; opposite)
B3/B4
1-4
(Face opposite) big turn single right, into
5-7
Star left 3 places
8
Fall back into the set (one place cw from start)
9-32
Repeat 3 more times (partner; opposite; partner)
A5/A6
1-4
Partner arm right (end facing into set)
5-6
Cast right one place (ccw, over left shoulder)
7-8
Set right & left (on the spot, honoring the set)
9-32
Repeat 3 more times (opposite; partner; opposite)
B5/B6
1-2
Cloverleaf turn single (towards partner, outwards, end facing partner)
3-4
Partner change (pass partner right)
5-8
Opposite two-hand turn
9-32
Repeat 3 more times (cloverleaf with opposite, change with opposite, turn partner; cloverleaf with partner, change with partner, turn opposite; cloverleaf with opposite, chnage with opposite, turn partner)
© Michael Barraclough, 2016
Notes
Notes
1
To do an 'extended twirl', start as though doing a normal California twirl but at the end pull the joined hands between yuo and then let go as you turn to face back in. Thye net effect of the extended twirl is that you end up facing in the original direction but have changed places with your twirlee.
2
Susan Brehm bought the right to commission a dance from me at the 2010 Sharpes Assembly (Sebring, FL) silent auction. She asked that the dance be dedicated to Catie Geist, local dancer, teacher and organizer of the Sharpes Assembly and specified a number of figures that she would like included. This is one of a four dance suite that I produced for the commission.
3
My original solution, Catie's Quartet, is a 2-couple dance. However, whilst I feel that it is good, it is not a dance that you could reasonably do at a regular club night or regular dance, leastways not without having worked on it before. It should therefore be considered a workshop dance, or better still a dance for a dance camp where you can do one figure each day and then put it asll together.
4
I have therefore taken the 3 figures in the dance and turned them into 3 longways (double progression) becket formation dances (Catie loves dancing contra too). Each of these dances Catie's Line Dance, Catie Gets Around and Catie's In the Clover shares the same figure for the progression and uses one figure from the 2-couple dance. Any of these should be achievable at most dances, thus meeting Susan's desire to have the dance being 'accessible'. It also makes Catie's Quartet a quartet of dances!
5
All the dances are set to a wonderful waltz,Sperantsa Pierduta, written by Cathie Whitesides (1997) meaning Lost Hope in Romanian. The tune is published in The Waltz Book III (Bill Matthiesen, editor) and is recorded on Sperantsa (Cathie Whitesides), In Step (Amarillis) and Invitation To Waltz (Bare Necessities).
Music
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