[Callers] Mad Robin (was Re: As in Petronella)

Several recent messages to this mailing list have mentioned alternative--and perhaps more descriptive--names for the contra dance figure known as "Mad Robin" (after an English country dance that includes a vaguely similar, but far from identical, figure): side gypsy shuttle sliding doors [though actual sliding doors don't go around each other] slide about, men (or women) in front As I've pointed out previously http://lists.sharedweight.net/pipermail/callers-sharedweight.net/2013-June/… the earliest contra I know to use the figure is "Saint Paddy's Day" by Kirston Koths, who referred to the figure as a (full) sashay. Kirston tells me he finished composing the dance on Oct. 14, 1982. It was first called at Pattie Whitehurst's wedding reception the same day. Some time in the 1990's someone else (perhaps Susan Kevra with "One Hundred Years of Mischief", written in 1995) reintroduced the figure (independently, I presume), the name "Mad Robin" got attached to it, and other callers began incorporating it into new dances. --Jim