[Callers] Teaching a Mad Robin

[Folk Dance]

I don't think the distinction is necessary is it?  "mad robin with your
neighbour" is clearly distinct from "1s in the middle mad robin" so why add
double mad robin?  It'd be like calling most petronella's double
petronellas because they have four people moving but the original
petronella is for 1s only.

Bob

On Fri, Sep 28, 2018 at 1:29 PM Read Weaver via Callers <
callers at lists.sharedweight.net> wrote:

> It’s perhaps worth saying during the teaching “also called a double mad
> robin,” since dancers will sometimes hear that (from callers who know ECD).
> I’ve seen confusion on moderately experienced contra dancers’ faces (and
> feet) at the term “double mad robin” (thinking you go around twice, or that
> it involves more than 4 people) because they’ve only ever seen the figure
> with 4 people moving and they’ve only ever heard it called “mad robin.”
> (In the English country dance “Mad Robin,” only two people are moving in
> the eponymous figure.)
>
> Read Weaver
> Jamaica Plain, MA
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