Social Dancer. Always willing to learn. The Closed Wing starting in line for the lady must be something resembling a Left Side Feather starting with the ladies LF.
Regarding Sequence Dances. One of our teachers said they have what is called a Poetic Licence with timing, steps and alignment.

"The Closed Wing starting in line for the lady must be something resembling a Left Side Feather starting with the ladies LF."

The textbook closed wing starts in closed position, but not inline. Instead, the commencing position sets the lady up to step back in CBMP with her partner outside.

Social Dancer. I can see it all now. A new Sequence Dance which has a Open Telemark and a Quick Weave. In Sequence Dancing they use some crazy alignments as well as some ridiculously out of rhythm steps. There problem is trying to fit things into finishing exactly on sixteen bars of music and be on the same foot that the dance started on in the beginning and also at the same time being on the same alignment that the dance started on. Many of the steps go a bit overboard.. There is one where an Open Impetus is started down the LOD. It also finishes down LOD and then also down the LOD a Natural Fallaway which also finishes down the same LOD. What a mess.

seemingly, still no clear agreement or obvious answers to the original question ?

Hi to all.
Could someone give the amounts of turn, as man, for the Open Telemark when commenced facing Diag to Centre, Against the Line of Dance, keeping in mind that the Quick Weave commences Diag Centre, on step 1.

The amounts of turn are exactly the same as for an open telemark in the normal textbook alignment, but the whole figure is turned 1/4 left. So we have,

Commence to turn L on 1
1/4 between 1 & 2
1/2 between 2 & 3, body turns less

Commence facing DC ALOD, end in PP
pointing DC body facing LOD.

First step of weave would then be RF fwd in CBMP and PP, pointing DC body facing LOD. IMHO, it does not need to be fwd and across in CBMP so there is no need for the final foot position of the telemark to be changed from 'side and slightly fwd'.

Thanks for your reply, SocialDancer.

I must be missing something here. If I commence an Open Telemark Diag to the centre with the LOD and finish diag to the centre with the LOD. Isn't that one full turn. Where is the normal text book alignment there.???. If I turn a 1/4 of a turn on step one,
( not the end of step one ) then step one is actually starting diag to centre against the LOD.

"If I turn a 1/4 of a turn on step one,
( not the end of step one ) then step one is actually starting diag to centre against the LOD."

Yes, that's what I said.

'Commence facing DC ALOD'
This is the finishing alignment of the previous figure so there is no need for additional turn on step 1, just the normal 'commence to turn L'.

If you want to think footprint diagrams, just pick up the whole chart and turn it 1/4 left.

Social Dancer.I see. I think I might be a bit old fashioned, but I have never struck a step where I turn on it. ( Is this American Smooth )?, Mine has always been at the end of. I do an Open Telemark starting Diag to wall against the LOD but never Diag to centre against the LOD .