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Re: Best number of dancers for this set dance needed (Colin Hume) ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Message: 1 Date: Tue, 9 Feb 2010 17:13:19 -0600 From: Martha Edwards &lt;meedwards(a)westendweb.com&gt; To: "Caller's discussion list" &lt;callers(a)sharedweight.net&gt; Subject: Re: [Callers] A Dance Called Gypsy Cap or Camp? Message-ID: &lt;7d8d864a1002091513q28e2b6dend8805d6abc3ebff4(a)mail.gmail.com&gt; Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 We've never noticed trouble with the Down the Hall, just with the contra corners when some in the group have not done contra corners the regular way before. But perhaps instead of Down the hall four in line (ones between the twos) it should read Down the hall four in line (ones between their original twos) The progression happens later, at the very end of the dance ("twos cast the ones down to progressed place") Does this help? M E On Tue, Feb 9, 2010 at 1:28 PM, joe micheals &lt;joemicheals1(a)yahoo.com&gt; wrote: -- For the good are always the merry, Save by an evil chance, And the merry love the fiddle And the merry love to dance. ~ William Butler Yeats ------------------------------ Message: 2 Date: Tue, 9 Feb 2010 22:48:39 -0500 From: "Rickey" &lt;holt.e(a)comcast.net&gt; To: &lt;callers(a)sharedweight.net&gt; Subject: [Callers] Best number of dancers for this set dance needed Message-ID: <345003AB6CE748928B310E7BC73A27BE@maxx> Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Hi All, I have a set dance that currently is simply named "Shetland Set" in my collection. I am trying to figure out the best number of dancers for it. If you also have a name for it - fantastic, but the best number of dancers is my most pressing problem. The dance is below. Thanks, Rickey Holt, Fremont, NH SHETLAND SET Probably proper A1 Top couple arch down over the gent's line (lady in the center) / and up over the lady's line (gent in the center), back to place A2 Same top couple sashay to the bottom / and reel back up B1, 2 "Shuttle" to the bottom: one-half pousette (first man push to start), the top couple exchanging places with each subsequent couple, all couples except top couple can move together in the same direction as the top couple weaves to the bottom. My notes do not indicate this but I believe that it is common for each couple to swing their partner after the top couple passes them. If so end that swing proper. Seems to me that the reel would take more than part of the A2, and the "Shuttle" less than B1 and B2 combined. Do you recognize this dance? ------------------------------ Message: 3 Date: Tue, 09 Feb 2010 22:25:45 -0800 (PST) From: Alan Winston - SSRL Central Computing &lt;winston(a)slac.stanford.edu&gt; To: Rickey &lt;holt.e(a)comcast.net&gt; Cc: callers(a)sharedweight.net Subject: Re: [Callers] Best number of dancers for this set dance needed Message-ID: &lt;01NJH3XSUN6A9OGWTE(a)SSRL.SLAC.STANFORD.EDU&gt; Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; CHARSET=us-ascii Rickey wrote: This looks to me like "Foula Reel", which is in the Community Dances Manual as a four-couple set dance (and which I've danced that way to Bruce Hamilton's calling). Four couples is what you want to make the poussette thing work in the time available. I think the breakdown in my notes will answer your timing questions. Here's the notes I have: ---------------------------------------------------------------- The Foula Reel CDM7 - "The Shaalds of Foula" (CDM gives two tunes with the same name, both jigs, NIB) Longways for four couples A1 (1-4) top couple lead down between the fours (5-8) [Strip the Willow] Arm right with partner 1.5, left with neighbor to move up one place, continue with 1x turns A2 (1-8) finish stripping the willow B1: (1-8) 1st couple, man inside, arch over men's lie down and over women's line up the set. B2: (1-8) Poussette with partners. (1st couple go the opposite direction from everybody else; everybody keeps moving all the way.) 1st man pushes, others pull; 1st man pulls, others push, repeat. Dave Hunt's Variation for B2 (via Mike Courthold on the ceilidh list): BOING: * Top cpl face and boing off each other's hands (ie clap once to each other with both hands); and cast around the neighbouring cpl * Repeat the boing and cast twice more to get to the bottom of the set ---------------------------------------------------------------------- -- -- Alan -- ====================================================================== ========= Alan Winston --- WINSTON(a)SSRL.SLAC.STANFORD.EDU Disclaimer: I speak only for myself, not SLAC or SSRL Phone: 650/926-3056 Paper mail to: SSRL -- SLAC BIN 99, 2575 Sand Hill Rd, Menlo Park CA 94025 ====================================================================== ========= ------------------------------ Message: 4 Date: Wed, 10 Feb 2010 09:26:41 GMT From: Colin Hume &lt;colin(a)colinhume.com&gt; To: &quot;winston(a)slac.stanford.edud.edu, Caller's discussion list" &lt;callers(a)sharedweight.net&gt; Subject: Re: [Callers] Best number of dancers for this set dance needed Message-ID: <201021092641.239957@Colin> Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" On Tue, 09 Feb 2010 22:25:45 -0800 (PST), Alan Winston - SSRL Central Computing wrote: I do it giving 2 hands and a galop down (possibly Americans would say sashay) and I think it's only four galops (2 bars) - you need the rest of the 16 bars to strip the willow. You'll find there's not time to lie down! Colin Hume ------------------------------ _______________________________________________ Callers mailing list Callers(a)sharedweight.net http://www.sharedweight.net/mailman/listinfo/callers End of Callers Digest, Vol 66, Issue 12 ***************************************