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

[Karl via Callers]

It's a Scottish figure called 'Gay Gorden'. I know it's in other dances but not sure about Contras outside of Handsome Young Maids'. One of my favorites.

On January 16, 2017 5:20:15 PM EST, 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."
>
>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.
>
>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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