14 Jun
2017
14 Jun
'17
11:40 p.m.
Deborah Hyland wrote:
> The next question I had was whether the circles
got progressively bigger or whether it was always circles of 4. Thanks so much!
And Tony Parkes replied, in part:
One could conceivably use a Texas do-si-do (now called
do-paso just about everywhere) with circles of six or more. ...
True. However, the Colorado docey-doe discussed earlier
in this thread, where women begin by switching places
with each other--either by a left shoulder pass [something
like a left half gypsy] or by rollaway type action with
the "opposite" gent--doesn't generalize naturally to a
circle of more than two couples.
In any case, regardless of whether you use the basket in
a cumulative (4,6,8) or single visiting form, you of course
get to match it with whatever chorus figure(s) you think
will be accessible and fun for the dancers at your event,
and that needn't necessarily include any variant of
docey-doe.
--Jim