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

April Blum via Callers callers at lists.sharedweight.net
Wed Jan 18 08:49:51 PST 2017


I recall dancing one called Doublin Back. And I have written one called Doublin Dublin. 
April Blum On Jan 16, 2017 5:20 PM, Tavi Merrill via Callers <callers at lists.sharedweight.net> wrote:
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> 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?  
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> Tavi


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