29 Dec
2013
29 Dec
'13
9:23 p.m.
I thought "square through" did not specifically include the balances.
I learned that with the balances, it's called "interrupted square through".
As I understand, cross trails is without hands, and square through is with
hands. Am I mistaken?
-Ron
http://contradances.tumblr.com/ron
On Sun, Dec 29, 2013 at 8:13 PM, David Harding <dharding101(a)comcast.net>wrote;wrote:
As I have danced them, the basic path is the same for
square through and
cross trail, but the feel is different.
The square through starts with a right hand balance, then a pull through,
followed by turning toward the appropriate person next to whom you have
crossed the set, joining left hands with that person, pulling by, and
turning toward the center of the set. This is usually repeated to put you
back where you started.
I am used to doing a pass through and cross trail without touching hands,
and I don't expect to repeat it to get back to where I started.
The Wikipedia article http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/
Contra_dance_choreography has a good start at a catalog, but it's not
comprehensive. Yet.
Dave
On 12/29/2013 6:43 PM, Kalia Kliban wrote:
Square-through vs Cross-trail
Can anyone tell me what the difference is between these two figures, if
any? They show up in various different dances in my collection but they
both seem to be the figure that in English country dance we'd call "2
changes of rights and lefts" which is to say right hands to the person
across from you (either neighbor or partner, depending on where the dance
has taken you so far) and then left hands to the person in your minor set
who's next to you in line (again, either N or P). And in ECD those 2
changes can sometimes start along the line instead of across, which I
assume can happen in contras as well though I haven't yet encountered it.
And can anyone point to a really thorough online glossary of contra
terminology?
Kalia
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