Hi all,
I have finally finished working through the magazines and
publishing the dances on the Internet, with the kind permission of the
EFDSS. The dances cover all the different genres on both sides of the
Atlantic over the last 370 years.
There are now over 150 dances from the magazines at
http://contrafusion.co.uk/DancesEDS.html together with some interesting
articles (indexed on that page):
Dances Mentioned By Thomas Hardy in Under the Greenwood Tree.
Dancing Sidmouth Review of Sidmouth 1955.
The "Drops and Raises" in Folk Music by Peter Kennedy in 1949.
Films from the Past Video of Cecil Sharp dancing circa 1912, plus lots
of background information on the creation of the video.
Jubilee Dance Competition in 1961.
Meeting Country Dances by Roy Dommett in 1982.
Ralph Page.
Some Dorset Reel-Steps.
The Traditional Social Dance in Northumberland by Grahame Binless and
Mike Robson in 1970.
Village Dance in Cumberland in 1939.
What do we know about our Dances by J.F. and T.M. Flett in 1966.
What Makes a Good Dance? by Colin Hume plus the 1986 Dance Search
Competition.
Whose Version is That? Part I Colin Hume looks at the problems of
interpreting Playford Dances from the original books.
Whose Version is That? Part II Colin Hume looks at the problems of
interpreting Playford Dances from the original books.
The magazines are:
E.F.D.S News 1921 to 1936
English Dance & Song 1936 to 1989
I am missing about 10 magazines; I will be going to the
Vaughan Williams Memorial Library at Cecil Sharp House to work on those when
I get time.
Thanks to all those who have already contributed with advice,
information and corrections. Please let me know if you can add anything to
any of these pages.
Happy New Year!
Happy dancing,
John
John Sweeney, Dancer, England john(a)modernjive.com 01233 625 362 & 07802
940 574
http://contrafusion.co.uk/KentCeilidhs.html for Live Music Ceilidhs
http://www.contrafusion.co.uk for Dancing in Kent
http://www.modernjive.com for Modern Jive DVDs
There are still tickets available for my New Year's Eve Dance in Letchworth, Herts.
The programme will include English, Contra, Squares and Scottish.
Full details at http://colinhume.com/NYE
Colin Hume
Thanks for reminding me that I’ve intended to thank them, too. Its such a
great resource. Hats off to Chris and Michael!
On Thu, Dec 19, 2019 at 7:42 PM Kalia Kliban via Contra Callers <
contracallers(a)lists.sharedweight.net> wrote:
> I've been making heavy use of the Caller's Box site lately, but it took
> me a while to realize how handy and extensive the video links are. Not
> all, but most, of the dances I've been looking at have video links, and
> it's very rare that I can find those videos any other way (I've tried,
> just out of curiosity). My gratitude to Chris and Michael for putting
> that site together continues to grow!
>
> Kalia
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I've been making heavy use of the Caller's Box site lately, but it took
me a while to realize how handy and extensive the video links are. Not
all, but most, of the dances I've been looking at have video links, and
it's very rare that I can find those videos any other way (I've tried,
just out of curiosity). My gratitude to Chris and Michael for putting
that site together continues to grow!
Kalia
Good morning, Chris!
If you're on the archives page, it's the tiny link icon under the time
stamp on the right hand side, next to the A.
[image: image.png]
Emily
On Mon, Dec 16, 2019 at 11:08 PM Chris Page via Contra Callers <
contracallers(a)lists.sharedweight.net> wrote:
> I've been looking through the archives of the new list.
>
> There's a way to link to threads, by cut-and-pasting the url.
>
> Is there a way to either link to individual posts, or an anchor within a
> thread that will lead to a particular post?
>
> Hopeful,
> -Chris Page
> Los Angeles, CA
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Look for the permalink icon under the posting date. It’s a bit of chain (but looks like handcuffs to me).
\Bob
> On Dec 16, 2019, at 23:08, Chris Page via Contra Callers <contracallers(a)lists.sharedweight.net> wrote:
>
> I've been looking through the archives of the new list.
>
> There's a way to link to threads, by cut-and-pasting the url.
>
> Is there a way to either link to individual posts, or an anchor within a thread that will lead to a particular post?
>
> Hopeful,
> -Chris Page
> Los Angeles, CA
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I've been looking through the archives of the new list.
There's a way to link to threads, by cut-and-pasting the url.
Is there a way to either link to individual posts, or an anchor within a thread that will lead to a particular post?
Hopeful,
-Chris Page
Los Angeles, CA
I should note that I've been trying this year to add multiple
references to the Caller's Box, especially for the older dances.
http://www.ibiblio.org/contradance/thecallersbox/dance.php?id=3615
should give 10 references, six of which are online.
(There's one more for in the next update: Oglebay Institute Syllabus
<vol> 1982 <no> Spring <p> 10. It's still an ongoing project.)
-Chris Page
On Thu, Dec 12, 2019 at 4:35 PM Kalia Kliban via Contra Callers
<contracallers(a)lists.sharedweight.net> wrote:
>
> This dance appears in the RPLDW syllabus from 1990, transcribed from the
> previously-taped calling of Ralph Page. It's a triple minor (1s)
> improper contra. The notes are pretty minimal:
>
> "Allemande left 1-1/2
> To next below for a dosido
> Circle 6 to the left once around
> Star left below
> Swing the one above
> Right and left four (over and back)"
>
> Since it's a triple minor and we need to get the 1s into the middle
> somehow, the obvious place for that to happen is during that initial
> allemande 1-1/2. And instructions in this period usually talked to the
> 1s, which makes most of the rest of the dance pretty self-driving.
> Anyone know whether that final over-and-back is with the 2s above or the
> 3s below? If it's with the 2s above, then the propriety is right for
> the courtesy turns.
>
> If you've danced this, or have it in your files, could you confirm or
> correct my guesses?
>
> Many thanks,
> Kalia in Sebastopol
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On 2019-12-12 7:35 p.m., Kalia Kliban via Contra Callers wrote:
> This dance appears in the RPLDW syllabus from 1990, transcribed from the
> previously-taped calling of Ralph Page. It's a triple minor (1s) improper
> contra. The notes are pretty minimal:
>
> "Allemande left 1-1/2
> To next below for a dosido
> Circle 6 to the left once around
> Star left below
> Swing the one above
> Right and left four (over and back)"
>
> Since it's a triple minor and we need to get the 1s into the middle somehow,
> the obvious place for that to happen is during that initial allemande
> 1-1/2. And instructions in this period usually talked to the 1s, which
> makes most of the rest of the dance pretty self-driving. Anyone know whether
> that final over-and-back is with the 2s above or the 3s below? If it's with
> the 2s above, then the propriety is right for the courtesy turns.
>
> If you've danced this, or have it in your files, could you confirm or
> correct my guesses?
See Northern Junket vol 13, #11, p 27:
http://digital.unh.edu/fedora/objects/northernjunket:0155/datastreams/APPLI…
(That's dated June 1981, so I think it's the first appearance.)
The printing is fairly bad, but you can still read:
"Actives allemande left the one below - once around and a little more"
and
"Top two couples right and left four (over & back)"
So both of your guesses are confirmed.
Less authoritatively, but more readably, there's also RPDLW 2013:
https://www.library.unh.edu/special/forms/rpdlw/syllabus2013.pdf#page=46
-Michael
