9 Sep
2013
9 Sep
'13
10:13 p.m.
On Mon, Sep 9, 2013 at 6:00 PM, Aahz Maruch <aahz(a)pobox.com> wrote:
Tangenting: Not sure what the contra community
considers "correct", but
for MWSD the correct pair of calls would be "walk around corner, see saw
partner", which would translate to gypsy instead of dosido. That would
obviate the need for the footnote. ;-)
Actually, this is worthy of it's own discussion. I wrote this dance ages
ago and called it once (with mixed feedback; mostly with concerns that it
was too complicated), but never really could figure out what the see saw
should be called (it's not really a see saw or a mad robin; somewhere in
between). It's almost a Mad Robin in which you don't want to be looking at
your opposite. For those who don't want to parse my markup from the last
message, here's the dance written out in a more traditional style:
Code's Compiling by Sam Whited (Duple becket)
A1. Neighbor dosido (8); Partner see saw (8)
A2. Shadow swing (16)
B1. Balance and petronella (8); Balance and petronella (8)
B2. Partner swing (8); Left diagonal: Right and left through (8)
Notes: The Neighbor dosido into a partner see saw should be one fluid
motion. Resist spinning in the dosido and start revolving slowly over your
right shoulder as you enter the see saw and everything will flow. Make sure
lines have lots of space for the dosido [since it's across the lines which
I normally don't like].
The important thing is to make sure dancers know that they don't have to
stop and change direction for the dosido into a see saw (which makes the
dance horribly jerky). In general, it probably needs revision. Also,
probably a stupid question, but what's MWSD?
—Sam
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9 Sep
9 Sep
10:21 p.m.
New subject: Code's Compiling [WAS: Fwd: List of contra dance figures]
On Mon, Sep 09, 2013, Sam Whited wrote:
On Mon, Sep 9, 2013 at 6:00 PM, Aahz Maruch
<aahz(a)pobox.com> wrote:
Yeah, I still think gypsy works better than dosido for this.
Modern Western Square Dance -- unlike contra, there's an actual ruling
body (Callerlab) that formally defines correct square dancing. I used
"MWSD" specifically to distinguish it from traditional squares because
we're having another thread about that; like contra, there's no real
concept for "correctness" in trad squares.
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Tangenting: Not sure what the contra community considers "correct", but
for MWSD the correct pair of calls would be "walk around corner, see saw
partner", which would translate to gypsy instead of dosido. That would
obviate the need for the footnote. ;-)
Actually, this is worthy of it's own discussion. I wrote this dance ages
ago and called it once (with mixed feedback; mostly with concerns that it
was too complicated), but never really could figure out what the see saw
should be called (it's not really a see saw or a mad robin; somewhere in
between). It's almost a Mad Robin in which you don't want to be looking at
your opposite. For those who don't want to parse my markup from the last
message, here's the dance written out in a more traditional style:
Code's Compiling by Sam Whited (Duple becket)
A1. Neighbor dosido (8); Partner see saw (8)
A2. Shadow swing (16)
B1. Balance and petronella (8); Balance and petronella (8)
B2. Partner swing (8); Left diagonal: Right and left through (8)
Notes: The Neighbor dosido into a partner see saw should be one fluid
motion. Resist spinning in the dosido and start revolving slowly over your
right shoulder as you enter the see saw and everything will flow. Make sure
lines have lots of space for the dosido [since it's across the lines which
I normally don't like].
The important thing is to make sure dancers know that they don't have to
stop and change direction for the dosido into a see saw (which makes the
dance horribly jerky). In general, it probably needs revision. Also,
probably a stupid question, but what's MWSD?
10:27 p.m.
New subject: Code's Compiling [WAS: Fwd: List of contra dance figures]
On Mon, Sep 9, 2013 at 6:21 PM, Aahz Maruch <aahz(a)pobox.com> wrote:
Yeah, I still think gypsy works better than dosido for
this.
Ah, I see what you're saying; somehow I read that wrong the first
time. That would put them facing the right direction for the see-saw
and prevent people from attempting to abruptly change direction when
they should just flow into it (and anything I can do to reduce the
amount of instruction needed is a good thing, I think). On the other
hand, the intent wasn't to have them look at their neighbor there;
maybe I'll just call it a `walk around' as you suggested it would be
called in Modern Western Square Dance (I figured it out). That way
people won't feel like they have to look at their neighbor, but will
also naturally pick up the transition.
Thanks for the suggestion!
—Sam
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