{"id":837,"date":"2018-03-01T16:53:40","date_gmt":"2018-03-01T16:53:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/dances.callerlab.org\/?p=837"},"modified":"2021-02-16T20:19:37","modified_gmt":"2021-02-16T20:19:37","slug":"jefferson-and-liberty","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dances.callerlab.org\/?p=837","title":{"rendered":"Jefferson and Liberty"},"content":{"rendered":"

Formation:<\/span> This was originally written for contra lines with 1, 3, 5 etc. active but not crossed
\nover. Because of the “Right and Left Thru” it is easier to dance with the actives crossed over.
\nMusic:<\/span> Originally danced in the early 19th century to an Irish Jig called “The Gobby-o”. For a
\ntraditional feel try “March of St. Timothy” on LS-338 (record is called “Lighted Sconce”).<\/p>\n

Download RTF file: Jefferson & Liberty<\/a><\/p>\n

Prompts:<\/span>
\nIntro or<\/span>
\n57-64   – – – -; – – Circle Left;<\/span>
\n    1-8   – – – -; – – Circle Right;<\/span>
\n  9-16   – – – -; – – Right-hand Star;<\/span>
\n17-24   – – – -; – – Left-hand Star;<\/span><\/p>\n

25-32   – – – -; Active couples down the center and turn alone;<\/span>
\n33-40   – – – -; Return and Cast Off;<\/span>
\n41-48   – – – -; Right and Left Thru across;<\/span>
\n49-56   – – – -; Right and Left back;<\/span>
\n57-64   – – – -; – – Circle Left;<\/span><\/p>\n

Description:<\/span>
\n    1-8   Each group of four dancers Circle to the Left for 8 steps.
\n  9-16   The same four dancers Circle Right back to their original facing positions.
\n17-24   The same four dancers make a Right-hand Star and turn it for 8 beats.
\n25-32   The same four turn around and Star Left back to their original position. <\/p>\n

33-40   Active couples walk down the center of their line towards the foot of the hall for six short steps, then those dancers turn alone on beats 7 and 8.
\n41-48   Active dancers come back up the center and Cast Off with the inactive dancer who was just below them. (To Cast Off the two dancers turn side by side three-quarters around, with the active dancer moving forward and the inactive dancer moving backward. This ends in long facing lines with the active dancers below the inactive dancers.)
\n49-56   The same group of four dancers do a Right and Left Thru across. If dancing as an Alternate Duple this is a right hand pull by followed by a Courtesy Turn. If dancing as a Proper Duple this is a Pass Thru and wheel counterclockwise as a couple.
\n57-64   The same four dancers repeat the action of 49-56 to come back across the set. <\/p>\n

Progression:<\/span> When a couple has no one to dance with they are neutral for one sequence. During this time they turn around as a couple (or individually if dancing as a Proper Duple) and change their role — at the top Inactives become Active, at the bottom Actives become Inactive. <\/p>\n

Variation:<\/span> Another option for the action in beats 49-64 is to use a Square Thru Four, which removes any debate about which way to Courtesy Turn or Wheel Around. (Square Thru Four begins with a right pull by and continues for a total of four pull bys alternating right and left hands. Dancers turn individually one-quarter in at each corner of the box. In this case everyone should be facing the next group of four dancers after the last pull by.) <\/p>\n

Source:<\/span> Contra Dancers of Hawaii website.<\/p>\n

This page from http:\/\/dances.callerlab.org<\/a> (CALLERLAB Dance Resource)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

This is probably the historical dance from which the other Jefferson dances evolved.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[49,9],"tags":[15,38],"class_list":["post-837","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-alternate-duple","category-contras","tag-64-count","tag-right-left-thru"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dances.callerlab.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/837","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dances.callerlab.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dances.callerlab.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dances.callerlab.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dances.callerlab.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=837"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/dances.callerlab.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/837\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2516,"href":"https:\/\/dances.callerlab.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/837\/revisions\/2516"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dances.callerlab.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=837"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dances.callerlab.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=837"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dances.callerlab.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=837"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}