29 Sep
2018
29 Sep
'18
4:01 p.m.
Sorry I was unclear. Because some contra callers say “mad robin” and some contra callers
say “double mad robin,” meaning the same thing, and if you’ve learned it as “mad robin”
and a new-to-you caller says “double mad robin,” you’ll think it’s a different figure.
On Sep 28, 2018, at 8:51 AM, Folk Dance
<ceilidh.caller.bob(a)gmail.com> wrote:
I don't think the distinction is necessary is it? "mad robin with your
neighbour" is clearly distinct from "1s in the middle mad robin" so why add
double mad robin? It'd be like calling most petronella's double petronellas
because they have four people moving but the original petronella is for 1s only.
Bob
On Fri, Sep 28, 2018 at 1:29 PM Read Weaver via Callers
<callers(a)lists.sharedweight.net <mailto:callers@lists.sharedweight.net>>
wrote:
It’s perhaps worth saying during the teaching “also called a double mad robin,” since
dancers will sometimes hear that (from callers who know ECD). I’ve seen confusion on
moderately experienced contra dancers’ faces (and feet) at the term “double mad robin”
(thinking you go around twice, or that it involves more than 4 people) because they’ve
only ever seen the figure with 4 people moving and they’ve only ever heard it called “mad
robin.”
(In the English country dance “Mad Robin,” only two people are moving in the eponymous
figure.)