I modified Bob Dalsemer's dance, Dog Branch Reel, so that the transition into the neighbor swing would be more conventional. 

To give it even more English flavor, I tried changing B2 to fall back, turn single while advancing, 2s swing, but it was a hard sell at the contra dance.

In my own records I call this version "Dog Branch, Really?".


duple, improper

A1   N do-si-do; 1s swing

A2   Line of 4 down the hall 4 steps turning alone on step 4, continue down the hall walking backwards; up the hall 4 steps turning alone on step 4, continue up the hall walking backwards, bend the line

B1   Circle L; N swing

B2   Long lines forward and  back; 2s swing


On Mon, Jan 16, 2017 at 2:20 PM, Tavi Merrill via Callers <callers@lists.sharedweight.net> wrote:

Dance genealogy question: The figure first appearing in "Dublin Bay" (aka "We'll Wed and We'll Bed," its title in Playford) morphed in contra into a modified "lines of four down the hall."

I know a version of it from Sue Rosen's dance "Handsome Young Maids," where dancers facing down take four steps forwards, turn alone, and continue down the hall with four backward steps, then repeat the figure to return up the hall. 

I'm curious how many other contras this figure, or a version of it, appears in. Does anyone know of other dances? And any astute dance historians out there know what the first contra to use this figure is?  

Tavi

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