27 Feb
2010
27 Feb
'10
1:34 p.m.
How much trouble do folks have ending a swing in the middle of the
phrase? I hadn't registered that it did that until I started
transcribing it. Seems like it would really need particular tunes for
the dancers to be able to hear that. What kinds of tunes have you done
it to?
Jack
On 2/7/2010 5:20 PM, Susan Moffett wrote:
This dance has been one of my favorites for a long
time. The first
half for its precision and the second half for its flow. With the
tight tune, it can be magical!
On Feb 7, 2010, at 1:40 PM, Martha Edwards wrote:
I would second that.
In "Midwest Folklore" a fine book of Midwestern Dances (plug, plug),
edited
by the dance's author, Orace Johnson, it says of DuQuoin Races:
A2 Balance (4) (Women step forward across the set to take neighbor's
place,
while men loop right to take partner's place, thus forming long wavy
lines
with the women facing out, and the men facing in.)
Balance. Men cross set as women loop right.
I particularly like the contrast between the somewhat quaint and formal
language of the explanation in parentheses with the curt, efficient "Men
cross as women loop right".
M
E
On Sun, Feb 7, 2010 at 7:07 AM, Chris Weiler (home) <
chris.weiler(a)weirdtable.org> wrote:
--
For the good are always the merry,
Save by an evil chance,
And the merry love the fiddle
And the merry love to dance. ~ William Butler Yeats
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