14 Dec
2012
14 Dec
'12
11:59 p.m.
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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