1 Sep
2012
1 Sep
'12
12:32 p.m.
Old Time Elixer #2 by Linda Leslie and Tica Tica Timing by Dean Snipes are
darn close, the difference being a right and left through versus a
promenade across. (They're both fabulously fun petronella dances).
As for choreographers slipping up and writing their own dance twice, it
wouldn't surprise me, but it also may be that they changed the name when
they found something that suited better. I personally find naming dances
harder than writing them.
I know I've re-created dances that already existed; although it can be hard
to say if I'm writing them myself, or pulling them out of my dance memory,
It'd be fun to see a cladistic taxonomy of contra dances (and related
forms), showing the similarities and differences; be they regional,
composer, historic, or otherwise. I don't remember which caller, but
someone broke contra dances in to primarily 1 swing and 2 swing dances
(with some others), and then branches 2 swing dances into dances where the
swings are in adjacent phrases (ex A2 & B1) or non-adjacent. That type of
tree system could be the basis for basis for classifying dances and keeping
track of how close your dances are to others (you'd still need a database
of existing dances to compare to).
On Sat, Sep 1, 2012 at 2:59 AM, Chris Page <chriscpage(a)gmail.com> wrote:
On Fri, Aug 31, 2012 at 7:04 PM, Linda Leslie
<laleslierjg(a)comcast.net>
wrote:
--
Luke Donforth
Luke.Donforth(a)gmail.com <Luke.Donev(a)gmail.com>
www.lukedonev.com
Tenth Year in Tommerup (Linda Leslie). Same dance
by Greg Frock called
Hopping Tiger, Baby Squirrel. I have not had the opportunity to talk with
Greg about who might have written the dance at an earlier date.
I know I have run across a few others, but have not kept tract of them.
Linda
And they're both idential to "Practice Petronella" by Tom Lehmann.
I've written several dances that other people have written or wrote later.
There's numerous duplication if you look close. I've even run across a
few cases of callers accidentally duplicating their own dance,
publishing two different names with the exact same moves.
-Chris Page
San Diego
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