3 Sep
2013
3 Sep
'13
8:23 p.m.
On 9/3/2013 12:00 PM, John Sweeney wrote:
Hi Kalia, you said, " It's that turn in the
middle of the line of 4's travel
that I was comparing to Dublin Bay."
Yes, I understand completely. This is not the first time I have seen the
"down the hall, turn, go backwards" called Dublin Bay by contra dancers.
I suspect that in England we would be much more likely to say, " as in The
Gay Gordons" or " as in La Chapelloise"
Do I remember correctly that in Gay Gordons the 2 dancers turn over the
same shoulder? It's interesting how differently we think about these
moves. The distinctive thing about the "Dublin Bay" move for me is the
moment of transition from _leading_ down (or up) to _backing_ down (or
up), making it a long travel in one direction interrupted by a change of
face, and I really enjoy turning toward the person I'm traveling with.
So that would make the Dublin Bay move quite distinct from the Gay
Gordons, despite their strong similarity in other ways. The Gay Gordons
parallel turn is also really cool, but in a very different way. And for
someone who doesn't do this sort of dancing at all, they'd all look
pretty much the same :>) I love how such small distinctions can make
such a huge difference to how something feels.
Kalia