11 Sep
2013
11 Sep
'13
4:16 p.m.
On Wed, Sep 11, 2013, Andrea Nettleton wrote:
Blackbird Pie by Joseph Pimentel also has a See Saw, and the move is
called frequently enough around here, but for the sake of new dancers,
it is always taught: "Now Left shoulder Dos a Dos, that's called a See
Saw!" In MWSD it amounts to a gypsy, but then so does a dosados which
is also called "walk around". Neither is relevant for contra where we
really do go back to back if we do the move sans spinning.
Um, what? MWSD dosado is definitely not the same as "walk around the
corner". I'll quote from the Callerlab definitions for each (plus See
Saw):
Dosado:
Walking a smooth circular path, dancers walk forward, passing right
shoulders, slide sideways to the right, walk backwards, passing left
shoulders, and slide slightly to the left to return to their
starting position.
Walk Around the Corner:
Dancers face their corners. Walking forward and around each other
while keeping right shoulders adjacent, dancers return to their
original position, with their backs toward their corner.
See Saw:
Facing dancers walk forward and around each other keeping left
shoulders adjacent. They return to their original position, facing
away from each other.
Actually, neither dosado nor walk around is a gypsy in contra terms, now
that I look more closely. A smartass DBD caller [*] might try to define
gypsy as a 3/4 walk around the corner (but would probably get roundly
smacked).
[*] Dancing By Definition, a concept mostly for highly advanced square
dancers, means to do the definition of the call no matter how odd the
results -- especially with fractional calls
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