From winston@slac.stanford.edu Wed Mar 19 19:10:01 2014
From: Alan Winston <winston@slac.stanford.edu>
To: contracallers@lists.sharedweight.net
Subject: Re: [Callers] 1820s-1830s Dances
Date: Wed, 19 Mar 2014 16:09:01 -0700
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On 3/18/2014 2:06 PM, Alan Prince Winston wrote:
> Rich —
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> What do you need these for?  Class residency?  Birthday party?  How 
> old are the kids?  Do they want to be there? How long do you have with 
> them?  How important is it that the dances be historically accurate, 
> and now hat dimensions?
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> The “Colonial Social Dancing for Children” book is aimed at classroom 
> teachers and is constructed assuming that you have the kids multiple 
> times, and has some emphasis on footwork and etiquette.  (Period 
> footwork resembles modern Scottish footwork.)   The Heritage Dances of 
> Early America book isn’t aimed at children and doesn’t help very much 
> with how things phrase to the tunes.  The Cracking Chestnuts book is 
> really looking at old-favorite contra dances; jn the 1820s and 1830s 
> the contra dances mostly didn’t look like contra dances as we do them 
> today.  (Footwork, ball of the foot vs. flat feet, no ballroom 
> swinging, handshake stars not wrist-grip stars,e tc.)
>
> Country dances in America and England aren’t very different at this 
> point.  (Kate van Winkle Keller, with various collaborators, has 
> reconstructed and published dance collections from American sources 
> 1770s-1790s.  Even the “New Country Dances From Topsham Maine” book is 
> mostly dances published in Englsh sources.).
>
> Quadrilles have come in.  Cotillions haven’t gone yet.  The Spanish 
> Dance formation seems to come in (in England) in the late 1820s; 
> that's more or less Sicilian Circle, and can be fairly accessible.
>
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> I've had good luck with easy cotillions (Marlbrouk, George 
> Washington's Favorite) for kids over 10.  For this period you might 
> also want reels for three, four, and six.  Lancers Quadrille comes in 
> (published c. 1815).

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> On Mar 17, 2014, at 8:11 PM, rich sbardella <richsbardella(a)snet.net> 
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>> I am looking for some period dances that might have been danced in 
>> small New England towns in 1820-1830.  Should be easy enough for 
>> children.
>> Any suggestions?
>>
>> Also, does any know the steps to "Barrel of Sugar"? Recommended music?
>>
>> Rich Sbardella
>> Stafford, CT
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From lcpgr@yahoo.com Wed Mar 19 19:22:50 2014
From: Laur <lcpgr@yahoo.com>
To: contracallers@lists.sharedweight.net
Subject: Re: [Callers] 1820s-1830s Dances
Date: Wed, 19 Mar 2014 16:21:51 -0700
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Thx. I'll work on things sun. If this cold and a new job haven't done me in. =
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From lcpgr@yahoo.com Wed Mar 19 19:24:12 2014
From: Laur <lcpgr@yahoo.com>
To: contracallers@lists.sharedweight.net
Subject: Re: [Callers] 1820s-1830s Dances
Date: Wed, 19 Mar 2014 16:23:14 -0700
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Daggone phone. Sorry folks <br/><br/>L<a href=3D"https://overview.mail.yahoo.=
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