16 Mar
2008
16 Mar
'08
6:52 p.m.
Jefferson & Liberty Proper
A1) Circle Left
Circle Right
A2) Right Hand Star
Left hand Star - [back to where you started]
B1) 1s go down the outside of the set
turn and come back to place
B2) 1s step between the 2s and
ALL 4 down the hall 6 steps
All Backup 6 steps
1s make an arch - 2s duck thru
Start again:
circle left with that brand new couple you meet.
Haste to the Wedding
- Proper or Improper or
ALSO done as a Sicilian Circle
BUT B1) can be done with ALL not ONLY 1s
A1) Circle left
Circle Right
A2) Right hand star
Left hand star
B1) 1s ONLY Do si do Partner [count of 8]
Clap hands on counts 9 & 10
1s ONLY 2 hand turn 1x
B2) ALL Do si do NEIGHBOR
Clap hands on counts 8 & 9
**walk forward passing by right shoulder to meet
next neighbor. and start dance again
** I have them "acknowledge" that Neighbor
couple i.e. slight bow /curtsy - before they walk
forward to next couple - I often use this at the end
of a wedding dance - tell them about the use of this
dance at weddings for many many years - and they have
now become part of that wedding tradition. Allows all
but particularly the bride & groom to acknowledge each
couple.
It has glorious tune called Haste to the Wedding that
the bands I work with all play.
Broken Sixpence Improper by Don Armstrong
A1) with your Neighbor Do si do
Ladies do si do
S2) Men do si do
1s ONLY 2 HAND TURN
b1) 1s in the middle
ALL 4 down the hall - turn alone come back & bend
the line
B2) Circle Left 1x
Left hand star 1x
start again with next Neigbors
ENJOY!
--- Tina Fields <tfields8(a)yahoo.com> wrote:
Hey Sue (and other community dance callers),
Would you mind posting the content of some of these
dances
here? The quadrille sounds very interesting. I've
been
asked to call a couple of barn dances too, and keep
seeing
references to these dances, but don't have access to
the
books they're printed in.
Thank you!!
Tina
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510-814-8118 (answering machine-leave message)
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Message: 1
Date: Wed, 12 Mar 2008 20:48:46 -0500
From: Sue Robishaw <sue(a)manytracks.com>
Subject: [Callers] Beginner Contras
To: callers(a)sharedweight.net
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Hi,
We are sadly lacking in contra in my neck
of the
world, and I don't
have the experience of others on the list (who
I'm
thoroughly enjoying
learning from), but I've taught a few easy ones
to our
IFD group to
introduce the idea, and these worked well (I
think
they were all from
the New England Dancing Masters "Chimes of
Dunkirk"
book:
Jefferson & Liberty
Haste to the Wedding
Broken Sixpence
A non-contra easy dance that's gone over well
with
both our IFDers and
mixed public is the quadrille "The Carding"
from
Dudley Laufman's
"Sweets of May". Lively and you don't need even
numbers of couples as
in a square.
Snowy Cheers,
Sue Robishaw
Upper Peninsula of Michigan
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Sue Robishaw ~
[1]sue(a)manytracks.com ~
906-644-2598
770N Fox Rd, Cooks MI 49817 ~ ~ ~
[2]www.ManyTracks.com
"At the heart of this story, I think
, is a
simple, abiding
belief: it is possible to live wisely on the
land,
and to live well.
And in behaving respectfully toward all that
the land
contains, it is
possible to imagine a stifling ignorance
falling away
from us."
Barry Lopez ~ "Arctic Dreams"
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References
1. mailto:sue@manytracks.com
2. http://www.ManyTracks.com/
Tina R. Fields, Ph.D.
(707) 824-9318
"Hindsight Now!"
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