Re: [Organizers] Dipping and aerials

On Apr 5, 2016, at 4:36 AM, Jeff Kaufman wrote In case anyone's wondering what a "flying basket" is, you can see an example at about 1:32-1:42 in this video https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IPXrB7Ku3KM where it's done by well-practiced exhibition dancers with plenty of space around them At the traditional square dances I attended in Pittsburgh in the early 1980s, various Appalachian-style two-couple figures, including baskets ("Four hands across. Ladies bow; gents know how. ..."), were fairly often included in an evening's program. For a while, there were some dancers who liked to do flying baskets. What they did wasn't as extreme as the version in the video. The ladies might have been raised to about the angle shown in this photo https://i.ytimg.com/vi/_Qvg1GwwcyA/maxresdefault.jpg or perhaps a little higher. In any case, one time some of those flying feet stuck out far enough to bring down one of the loudspeakers. Fortunately, nobody was hurt. But the incident caused flying baskets to fall into disfavor (including the disfavor of the local callers/organizers). --Jim