14 Dec
2012
14 Dec
'12
7:44 p.m.
I think we have to simply admit that the folk process has done its work in this case. For
years I have danced contras with yearns which went only one couple. So pervasive was it
that when I wrote a dance with a variation on the move, I called it 'yearn to a
gypsy'. Note, I dance in the SE now, and danced in NE before. So, when I called this
dance in the PNW, many were confused by the appellation because to them, a yearn is two
couples on. I don't know that we will ever 'fix' the misunderstanding on this
coast. It's pretty entrenched. There is an alternate, I believe proposed by Bob
Isaacs. When going just one couple, he calls it a slice. Slice sounds a little sharp to
me, and I wish we could simply yearn one place or two. I changed the name of the move in
my dance to Swirl to a Gypsy, so my PNW friends will not be confused.
Cheers,
Andrea
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On Dec 14, 2012, at 6:59 PM, Rich Goss <richgoss(a)comcast.net> wrote:
My understanding is that the yearn progresses to the
second couple. The original George Walker version did just that. His description is
that as you pass the first couple you "yearn" to dance with them, but you
don't. Hence the term.
On Dec 14, 2012, at 1:37 PM, Alan Winston <winston(a)slac.stanford.edu> wrote:
I posted a dance description once with "Yearn" in it for a single sideways
Becket progression, and I
was told that was incorrect, that "Yearn" meant forward on the diagonal to
next couple and then back
on the diagonal to finish opposite the *next* couple, progressing two places. (I'm
not saying "double
progression" because that's, in my view, a feature of the whole dance
choreography, and if you had
choreography that backed you up one place and then you progressed forward two, you might
have a single
progression dance with this progress two places move in it.)
I've seen a couple of people post recently with Yearn for what looks to me like
progressing one place.
What do you folks think Yearn means? What do your dancers think?
-- Alan
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