10 Feb
2010
10 Feb
'10
3:48 a.m.
Hi All,
I have a set dance that currently is simply named "Shetland Set" in my
collection. I am trying to figure out the best number of dancers for it. If
you also have a name for it - fantastic, but the best number of dancers is
my most pressing problem. The dance is below.
Thanks,
Rickey Holt,
Fremont, NH
SHETLAND SET
Probably proper
A1 Top couple arch down over the gent's line (lady in the center) / and up
over the lady's line (gent in the center), back to place
A2 Same top couple sashay to the bottom / and reel back up
B1, 2 "Shuttle" to the bottom: one-half pousette (first man push to start),
the top couple exchanging places with each subsequent couple, all couples
except top couple can move together in the same direction as the top couple
weaves to the bottom.
My notes do not indicate this but I believe that it is common for each
couple to swing their partner after the top couple passes them. If so end
that swing proper.
Seems to me that the reel would take more than part of the A2, and the
"Shuttle" less than B1 and B2 combined. Do you recognize this dance?
10 Feb
10 Feb
6:25 a.m.
Rickey wrote:
I have a set dance that currently is simply named
"Shetland Set" in my
collection. I am trying to figure out the best number of dancers for it. If
you also have a name for it - fantastic, but the best number of dancers is
my most pressing problem. The dance is below.
This looks to me like "Foula Reel", which is in the Community Dances Manual as
a four-couple set dance (and which I've danced that way to Bruce Hamilton's
calling). Four couples is what you want to make the poussette thing work in
the time available.
I think the breakdown in my notes will answer your timing questions.
Here's the notes I have:
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The Foula Reel
CDM7 - "The Shaalds of Foula"
(CDM gives two tunes with the same name, both jigs, NIB)
Longways for four couples
A1 (1-4) top couple lead down between the fours
(5-8) [Strip the Willow] Arm right with partner 1.5,
left with neighbor to move up one place, continue with 1x turns
A2 (1-8) finish stripping the willow
B1: (1-8) 1st couple, man inside, arch over men's lie down and over women's
line up the set.
B2: (1-8) Poussette with partners.
(1st couple go the opposite direction from everybody else;
everybody keeps moving all the way.)
1st man pushes, others pull; 1st man pulls, others push, repeat.
Dave Hunt's Variation for B2 (via Mike Courthold on the ceilidh list):
BOING:
* Top cpl face and boing off each other's hands
(ie clap once to each other with both hands);
and cast around the neighbouring cpl
* Repeat the boing and cast twice more to get to the bottom of the set
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-- Alan
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Alan Winston --- WINSTON(a)SSRL.SLAC.STANFORD.EDU
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9:26 a.m.
On Tue, 09 Feb 2010 22:25:45 -0800 (PST), Alan Winston - SSRL Central
Computing wrote:
A1 (1-4) top couple lead down between the fours
(5-8) [Strip the Willow] Arm right with partner 1.5,
left with neighbor to move up one place, continue with 1x turns
A2 (1-8) finish stripping the willow
I do it giving 2 hands and a galop down (possibly Americans would say
sashay) and I think it's only four galops (2 bars) - you need the rest
of the 16 bars to strip the willow.
arch over men's lie down and over women's line
up the set.
You'll find there's not time to lie down!
Colin Hume
11 Feb
11 Feb
2:30 a.m.
nice dance
Mavis L McGaugh
510-814-8118 (answering machine-leave message)
----- Original Message ----
From: Alan Winston - SSRL Central Computing <winston(a)slac.stanford.edu>
To: Rickey <holt.e(a)comcast.net>
Cc: callers(a)sharedweight.net
Sent: Tue, February 9, 2010 10:25:45 PM
Subject: Re: [Callers] Best number of dancers for this set dance needed
Rickey wrote:
I have a set dance that currently is simply named
"Shetland Set" in my
collection. I am trying to figure out the best number of dancers for it. If
you also have a name for it - fantastic, but the best number of dancers is
my most pressing problem. The dance is below.
This looks to me like "Foula Reel", which is in the Community Dances Manual as
a four-couple set dance (and which I've danced that way to Bruce Hamilton's
calling). Four couples is what you want to make the poussette thing work in
the time available.
I think the breakdown in my notes will answer your timing questions.
Here's the notes I have:
----------------------------------------------------------------
The Foula Reel
CDM7 - "The Shaalds of Foula"
(CDM gives two tunes with the same name, both jigs, NIB)
Longways for four couples
A1 (1-4) top couple lead down between the fours
(5-8) [Strip the Willow] Arm right with partner 1.5,
left with neighbor to move up one place, continue with 1x turns
A2 (1-8) finish stripping the willow
B1: (1-8) 1st couple, man inside, arch over men's lie down and over women's
line up the set.
B2: (1-8) Poussette with partners.
(1st couple go the opposite direction from everybody else;
everybody keeps moving all the way.)
1st man pushes, others pull; 1st man pulls, others push, repeat.
Dave Hunt's Variation for B2 (via Mike Courthold on the ceilidh list):
BOING:
* Top cpl face and boing off each other's hands
(ie clap once to each other with both hands);
and cast around the neighbouring cpl
* Repeat the boing and cast twice more to get to the bottom of the set
------------------------------------------------------------------------
-- Alan
--
===============================================================================
Alan Winston --- WINSTON(a)SSRL.SLAC.STANFORD.EDU
Disclaimer: I speak only for myself, not SLAC or SSRL Phone: 650/926-3056
Paper mail to: SSRL -- SLAC BIN 99, 2575 Sand Hill Rd, Menlo Park CA 94025
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