"Mad, Mad World" is obviously a popular name for a dance with Mad Robins!
I hope Al won't mind me posting his dance here:
Mad, Mad World (by Al Green)
Duple; Improper
A1: Neighbour Balance (two hands) and Star Through
Mad Robin (Ladies through the middle)
A2: Hey (Ladies start Right Shoulder)
B1: Ladies Cross Over; Partner Swing
B2: Right & Left Through
1/2 Mad Robin; Right Hand Star 3/4 - look for New Neighbour
Happy dancing,
John
John Sweeney, Dancer, England john(a)modernjive.com 01233 625 362
http://www.contrafusion.co.uk for Dancing in Kent
Rich Sbardella wrote:
> I am looking for some available pre-recorded music with AAB, ABB, or ABC to use for a 48 step dance. Does anyone know of such a tune available for purchase?
Scottish to the rescue! You can search the Strathspey Server database here <http://my.strathspey.org/dd/search/recording/> for 24-bar recordings.
Some albums that have several 24-bar dances on them:
Bobby Crowe - RSCDS Book 3 - 2x J8x24, 1x R8x24
Neil Barron - RSCDS Book 4 - 2x J8x32
Rob Gordon - Graded Book - 3x J8x24, 1x R8x24
ECD band Stradivarious's 'Celebrates' also has a couple of 24-bar dances.
(SCD fiddle band, but reasonably contra-ish) Green Ginger's 'Gang on the Same Gate' has a R4x24 Triumph, and is on iTunes and Amazon mp3, if you want individual tracks.
Edmund Croft,
Cambridge, UK
I had a request from Karin Neils to post my dance Mad, Mad World on Shared Weight as she had seen it mentioned here recently (I missed that) but not the details. So here are the details:
Mad, Mad World
Martha Wild, August 8, 2008
Duple Improper
A1 Long lines forward and back
Mad robin (women to the right in front of men)
A2 Women pass by the left shoulder and
Gypsy and swing partner
B1 Pass through across the set and California twirl
Mad robin (men pass to the right in front of women)
B2 Men pass by the left shoulder and
Gypsy and swing neighbor
The women can give a gentle tug to the men after the Cal twirl to ease them into their mad robin.
Note: This dance can be done without the gypsies to a slow slip jig.
The dance can be seen on youtube here www.youtube.com/watch?v=qHscaBxLW5c with Firecloud and Lynn Ackerson, and here http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LrQcayS9CrM with Perpetual Emotion and Susan Petrick.
I'm glad people are having fun with it.
Martha
Linda Leslie pointed out three errors/clarifications in the list of easily dances I previously posted at http://aptsg.org/Dance/easy_dances.rtf
The file has been updated to reflect these.
1. To Turn a Phrase is missing the last Neighbor swing
2. Lanny's Back starts with a Neighbor gypsy and swing
3. InCows are Watching: after the zig right, couples do not face; the
men should have left sides close by each other, and can go into the
allemande in beautiful flow.
Michael Fuerst 802 N Broadway Urbana IL 61801 217-239-5844
Links to photos of many of my drawings and paintings are at www.ArtComesFuerst.com
I see that Tom published his dance in 1991 in his book "Dance All Night
2". I can't say when I wrote the dance down that I have, but it could
very well have been before that date since I've been calling since
1981. However, I have no problem with two different types of dances
with the same name!
Suzanne
-----Original Message-----
>From: Bill Olson
>Sent: Oct 9, 2013 2:26 PM
>To: Caller's discussion list
>Subject: Re: [Callers] A Walk In The Park
>
>Of course, (the) Carousel is also a duple inproper contra by Tom
Hinds..
>
>hmm,... so, that's sort of *the point* here, right??
>
>bill
>
>
>
>
>> Date: Wed, 9 Oct 2013 14:23:47 -0700
>> From: suzanneg(a)wolfenet.com
>> To: callers(a)sharedweight.net
>> Subject: Re: [Callers] A Walk In The Park
>>
>> Michael, that is indeed the dance I have on my card "Carousel" as a
>> Sicilian circle. It looks like a dance I got a long time ago, and
the
>> callers that were travelling at that time were very different from
>> these days. And, I didn't write down who I got it from,
unfortunately.
>> It could have been Fred Park, or Frank Hall, or John Krumm, or
soemone
>> else. Sorry I can't be more help on the provenance.
>>
>>
>> However, it is a fun, very accessible dance, and goes really well
with
>> bouncy rags.
>>
>>
>> Suzanne
>>
>> -----Original Message-----
>> >From: Michael Dyck
>> >Sent: Oct 8, 2013 10:34 PM
>> >To: callers(a)sharedweight.net
>> >Subject: Re: [Callers] A Walk In The Park
>> >
>> >On 13-10-08 06:05 PM, Ron T Blechner wrote:
>> >> Has the dance name "A Walk In The Park" been taken? If not, dibs.
>> >
>> >In my personal collection, I have the following dance:
>> >
>> > "A Walk in the Park"
>> > author unknown
>> > Sicilian circle
>> >
>> > A1 neighbor dosido
>> > partner dosido
>> >
>> > A2 ring balance x 2
>> > circle left
>> >
>> > B1 ring balance x 2
>> > circle right
>> >
>> > B2 men link left arms,
>> > partner star promenade 1.5
>> > (and whirl to face new neighbors, presumably)
>> >
>> >I collected it in 1990 from Marian Rose. (Are you on this list,
>> Marian?)
>> >
>> >Given that the author is unknown, it's possible that the true title
is
>> >also unknown (i.e., that "A Walk in the Park" was simply a name
that
>> >Marian attached to the sequence). My notes indicate that Suzanne
>> >Girardot also called it, but under the name "Carousel". (But it's
>> >certainly not the dance of that name by Tom Hinds, nor the one by
Don
>> >Flaherty.)
>> >
>> >(It's 3/4 the same as another dance I have, "Wobbler's Jig" by Tim
>> >Gerard, collected in 1994 from Marian again.)
>> >
>> >Does anyone have better information on this sequence? Note that it
>> might
>> >originally have been longways rather than Sicilian.
>> >
>> >-Michael
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Michael, that is indeed the dance I have on my card "Carousel" as a
Sicilian circle. It looks like a dance I got a long time ago, and the
callers that were travelling at that time were very different from
these days. And, I didn't write down who I got it from, unfortunately.
It could have been Fred Park, or Frank Hall, or John Krumm, or soemone
else. Sorry I can't be more help on the provenance.
However, it is a fun, very accessible dance, and goes really well with
bouncy rags.
Suzanne
-----Original Message-----
>From: Michael Dyck
>Sent: Oct 8, 2013 10:34 PM
>To: callers(a)sharedweight.net
>Subject: Re: [Callers] A Walk In The Park
>
>On 13-10-08 06:05 PM, Ron T Blechner wrote:
>> Has the dance name "A Walk In The Park" been taken? If not, dibs.
>
>In my personal collection, I have the following dance:
>
> "A Walk in the Park"
> author unknown
> Sicilian circle
>
> A1 neighbor dosido
> partner dosido
>
> A2 ring balance x 2
> circle left
>
> B1 ring balance x 2
> circle right
>
> B2 men link left arms,
> partner star promenade 1.5
> (and whirl to face new neighbors, presumably)
>
>I collected it in 1990 from Marian Rose. (Are you on this list,
Marian?)
>
>Given that the author is unknown, it's possible that the true title is
>also unknown (i.e., that "A Walk in the Park" was simply a name that
>Marian attached to the sequence). My notes indicate that Suzanne
>Girardot also called it, but under the name "Carousel". (But it's
>certainly not the dance of that name by Tom Hinds, nor the one by Don
>Flaherty.)
>
>(It's 3/4 the same as another dance I have, "Wobbler's Jig" by Tim
>Gerard, collected in 1994 from Marian again.)
>
>Does anyone have better information on this sequence? Note that it
might
>originally have been longways rather than Sicilian.
>
>-Michael
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>Callers(a)sharedweight.net
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Those of you using a tablet for calling, what size do you have? Do you
wish you had a larger/smaller tablet? (I'm currently leaning toward 7-8"
but am happy to get swayed by majority opinion -- particularly with
reasons. ;-)
--
Hugs and backrubs -- I break Rule 6 http://rule6.info/
<*> <*> <*>
Chekov's Rule for musicals: if there's a barrel, it must be danced on.
When I first started calling, I despaired when I heard experienced callers
say I must memorize my dances! I couldn't imagine keeping the order of
each dance straight in my mind! But now that I've been calling a couple of
years, I find that there are a few dances I know by heart and that there
are other dances I recognize when someone else calls them. The longer I
call, the larger my group of dances with which I am very familiar without
my notes.
I keep my dances in a google docs spreadsheet which I can access from my
Nexus 7 tablet with or without internet. But I print up the dances I am
calling and a few backups in a binder on a music stand on the stage with
me. The notes are not in my hands so I find it easier to pay attention to
the dancers instead of being glued to my notes. While the dances are not
"memorized" in the sense that I couldn't call it again next week without
reviewing the notes, for that evening, I am familiar enough with the dance
that I only need to glance at the notes before I start the walk-through.
This gets easier as time goes by.
So if you're a newbie caller, don't despair! It could be that the dances
will start sticking with you for longer and longer periods of time.
--
JoLaine Jones-Pokorney
"We are as gods and might as well get good at it!"
- Stewart Brand
Great dance! The back to back roll aways really build energy. John
Coffman mentions the potential timing problem and suggests a solution in
his teaching notes:
"Notes: A2: For ladies that like to twirl (ladies choice), a twirl works
nicely with the Right and Left Through. [Without the twirl, some men may
roll the ladies away prematurely, mildly disrupting the flow of the
dance.] So, when teaching, I like to suggest a twirl for the ladies that
like to twirl.
We have noticed that without careful teaching, many dancers will attempt
the first (ladies roll) prematurely, because lots of dances have the right
and left through and courtesy turn and roll away compressed into 8 counts
of music. For this dance to flow properly, dancers need to take the full 8
counts to do the right and left through (including the courtesy turn).
Then the first (ladies) roll away takes place during the first 4 counts of
the following (8 count) phrase."
Jim Hemphill
