Re: [Callers] Named Moves

On 11/26/2012 6:18 AM, Greg McKenzie wrote: You could certainly confuse everybody in the room by calling it "angry robin", because even the people who know the figure don't call it that. (You've referred to the figure this way more than once; you're usually very clear about your word choices but I can't figure out why you'd choose to say "angry robin" rather than "mad robin".) The figure is called "mad robin" because it's a variation on the signature move in an English dance called "Mad Robin"; I'd always imagined that this was Mad in the lightheartedly insane sense rather than in the angry sense. There's a French source - which postdates the English publication - which calls the dance "Madame Robin". -- Alan