[Callers] Teaching a Mad Robin

[Folk Dance]

I gathered that was the case - it just isn't something I've come across and
it seems redundant to use the double option.  Is it really widespread
enough that it needs mentioning?

On Sat, Sep 29, 2018 at 5:02 PM Read Weaver via Callers <
callers at lists.sharedweight.net> wrote:

> Sorry I was unclear. Because some contra callers say “mad robin” and some
> contra callers say “double mad robin,” meaning the same thing, and if
> you’ve learned it as “mad robin” and a new-to-you caller says “double mad
> robin,” you’ll think it’s a different figure.
>
> On Sep 28, 2018, at 8:51 AM, Folk Dance <ceilidh.caller.bob at gmail.com>
> wrote:
>
> 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.)
>>
>
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