[Callers] Contras which feature a "Dublin Bay" figure

[Linda Leslie via Callers]

Al Olson used the move in his dance “Leaving Home”. It was published in Give & Take by Larry Jennings in 2004. Larry spent a number of years putting this book together, so the dance was written well before this. I did not find the dance in Zesty Contras, Larry’s fist book, published in 1988; but this might mean that Larry did not have space to include it, rather than it had not been written yet.  If I were of a betting nature…..I would bet that the dance was from the 1980’s, maybe 1990’s. 
Linda

On Jan 16, 2017, at 5:20 PM, Tavi Merrill via Callers <callers at lists.sharedweight.net> wrote:

> 
> Dance genealogy question: The figure first appearing in "Dublin Bay" (aka "We'll Wed and We'll Bed," its title in Playford) morphed in contra into a modified "lines of four down the hall." 
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> I know a version of it from Sue Rosen's dance "Handsome Young Maids," where dancers facing down take four steps forwards, turn alone, and continue down the hall with four backward steps, then repeat the figure to return up the hall. 
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> I'm curious how many other contras this figure, or a version of it, appears in. Does anyone know of other dances? And any astute dance historians out there know what the first contra to use this figure is?  
> 
> Tavi
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