[Callers] Dolphin Heys in contra dances

[Luke Donforth via Callers]

Thanks. I searched for Martha Wild and Nils's Maggot, but only came up with
and ibiblio.org page. It's odd to me that Google didn't return a
sites.google.com result, but I'll bookmark it.

On Mon, Jun 13, 2016 at 1:22 PM, Yoyo Zhou <yozhov at gmail.com> wrote:

> On Mon, Jun 13, 2016 at 8:42 AM, Luke Donforth via Callers <
> callers at lists.sharedweight.net> wrote:
>
>> Looks like I'm late to the party. Glad to hear other folks are having fun
>> with it :-)
>>
>> I didn't know it came via Scottish, but that makes sense. It's called
>> tandem or alternating tandem reels there?
>> It's not clear to me how it ended up being called a dolphin hey instead
>> of a falcon hey; but I'm not going to try to change that vernacular.
>>
>> When I ran it for contras, I had a demo on the floor (jumping down myself
>> to do it, or working with a couple I had taught ahead of time). If I keep
>> it rotation, I'll see if I can develop the language to teach it completely
>> verbally; but for now I'll rely on a demo. I'd also be curious how other
>> folks teach it; and I'll query some instructors of Scottish and/or English.
>>
>> It was fun to see Kittyhawk Hornpipe in the RPDLW archive. Thank you Yoyo
>> for pointing that out. I didn't manage to find a transcription of Nils's
>> Maggot. What dance did you substitute a dolphin hey into?
>>
>
> It was indeed Kittyhawk Hornpipe that I called.
>
> Martha's dance (in which actually the 2s act as a unit in the hey for 3)
> is on her website:
> https://sites.google.com/site/marthawildscallsofthewild/
>
> Yoyo Zhou
>
>


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