27 Feb
2012
27 Feb
'12
6:16 p.m.
--- Donna wrote:
How about Circle Left 3/4? Lately, I've been programming specifically to avoid
having a circle in each dance. It's surprisingly difficult to find
dances that don't have circles.
--- end of quote ---
I don't have time now to sift through cards, but I'm wondering how much of this
circle left phenomenon 3/4 is there to maneuver people into position so everyone
can have a partner swing (much more easily done on the side of the set than in
the center) and a neighbor swing (ditto).
In the older dances--
Money Musk
Chorus Jig
Rory O'More
Hull's Victory
Lady of the Lake
Lamplighter's Hornpipe
Petronella
etc.
-- there's nary a circle left to be found.
But then, in those dances there wasn't the expectation of the partner swing, nor
of flow, which came into popular taste starting in the 1980s, or thereabouts.
Just wondering...
David Millstone