We’re talking like down to two years old, hopefully with parents. With any
luck parents will hold the younger ones and mom and dad, dad and dad, mom
and mom will dance together. But does anyone have any ideas for if the
parents don’t engage in the dancing but just want to take pictures of their
darlings? It’s for a library program, about 30 minutes.
Thanks for any thoughts you might have.
Jim Thaxter
Columbia, MO
Thank you so much for all the advice. We danced Waves of the Sea (thanks Mo!), Haymaker's Jig, Rakes of Mallow, Bridge of Athlone, Thady You Gander, the Grand March, and a lot of waltzes. The bride danced a solo jig. No 3s and 7s needed. Thanks again!
Regards, Deborah Hyland St Louis
Not surprising you can’t find it online, it is unpublished (except here). I called it Waves of the Sea as there are too many versions Waves of Tory already. Though the one I like best is the version Pete Grasby calls. I think he calls it the Cuckoo’s Nest version as it evolved at a University folk dance club of that name (Coventry University?)
It is the same as the CDM version until you lead up through the 1’s arch, then instead of waiting till all are through and facing down to start the dip-&-dive the new leading couple turns and begins it as others are still coming through the arch. Which gives more time to finish dipping and diving and maybe swing.
From: mjw(a)mowaddington.plus.com [trad-dance-callers]
Sent: 20 January 2019 21:42
To: trad-dance-callers(a)yahoogroups.com
Subject: RE: [trad-dance-callers] Re: Ceili wedding
Waves of the Sea (simplified version of Waves of Tory for use with non- dancers)
Jigs (I don’t care how many bars) e.g. Dingles Regatta. Longways set for everyone (no fussing about 1 more couple)
Lines forward and back twice.
Cast (follow the leader / peel the banana) lead your partner up the middle
Top couple face down, all dip and dive turning when you reach either end until I say
Swing
I vary the length of the dip and dive but aim to give them an 8 bar swing and form the lines ready to go F&B at a sensible point in the music.
As someone said it’s hard to get people to stop in the right place, so I let them stop where-ever they are.
From: Rich Sbardella richsbardella(a)gmail.com [trad-dance-callers]
Sent: 20 January 2019 19:32
To: trad-dance-callers(a)yahoogroups.com
Subject: Re: [trad-dance-callers] Re: Ceili wedding
Jacob, Can you provide a link to Mo's description?
Rich
On Sun, Jan 20, 2019 at 1:47 PM Jacob or Nancy Bloom jandnbloom(a)gmail.com [trad-dance-callers] <trad-dance-callers(a)yahoogroups.com> wrote:
Waves Of The Sea is Mo Waddington's adaptation of Waves of Tory, which he described in his post in this thread. (It looks good. I'm planning to use it myself.)
Jacob
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I've been asked by a bride for a ceili wedding. She was very specific about wanting Irish music, which i booked, but she was very vague about what ceili dancing was. She said " not really sure the names of the dances, we had the one with torpedo, in lines, some squares, dosey does spinning and such not sure if that helps."
I do know how to teach ceili, but going into great detail on 3s and 7s and jig step didn't seem to really lend itself to a wedding. My plan was definitely to include The Haymaker's Jig, Walls of Limerick, maybe Shoe the Donkey, but not too get much more complicated than that, subbing in ONS material from my regular wedding dances of squares, family dances, etc. but done with a little more Irish styling.
So, any advice on more Irish dances that lend themselves well to weddings?
Regards,Deborah Hyland
St. Louis
Tommy Jackson has recorded an excellent version of Snowflake Breakdown
lør. 19. jan. 2019 kl. 12.39 skrev mjw(a)mowaddington.plus.com
[trad-dance-callers] <trad-dance-callers(a)yahoogroups.com>:
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> Ah, I didn’t realise it had it’s own tune. Is it recorded anywhere? (Did I
> see it on an LP ?)
> Since I spotted Colin’s reply just before I went out I called it last
> night after driving through a heavy snowfall. There were one or 2 people in
> the wrong circles , but at least the caller remembered which to call.
>
> From: 'Peter Jenkins' peter(a)kafoozalum.co.uk [trad-dance-callers]
> Sent: 19 January 2019 10:38
> To: trad-dance-callers(a)yahoogroups.com
> Subject: Re: [trad-dance-callers] Snowflake breakdown
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>
> Yes, this tune apparently messed up the late, great Bernard Chalk when
> Blue Mountain Band used it for a patter square for him!.
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On Fri, 18 Jan 2019 16:07:35 +0000, mjw(a)mowaddington.plus.com [trad-dance-callers] wrote:
> Many years ago I danced Snowflake Breakdown and jotted it down... I'm thinking you get your original partner back
Mo -
You alternate directions for the swing.
Circle Men on inside 32 bar reels (Own tune)
A1: Circle left (walk). Circle right.
A2: Do-si-do partner. Right-hand turn.
B1: Do-si-do left shoulder. Left hand turn.
B2: Balance twice to partner. Swing the one diagonally left *, finish with men on outside, ladies on inside.
* alternately left and right, and alternate circles.
Dance: Brian Jones
It's a great dance to catch out those men who always want to swing for a little bit too long!
Colin Hume
On Fri, 18 Jan 2019 17:54:39 +0000, mjw(a)mowaddington.plus.com [trad-dance-callers] wrote:
> Thanks Colin, does the Circle left and right change too?
No it doesn't.
Colin
Rakes of Mallow is fool proof.
LL F&B, LL Fwd & Change
LL F&B, LL, Fwd & Change
Partner RH turn, Partner LH Turn
Top Pair Sashay Down
Great dance for almost any occasion.
Rich Sbardella
Stafford Springs, CT
On Thu, Jan 17, 2019 at 6:41 PM mjw(a)mowaddington.plus.com
[trad-dance-callers] <trad-dance-callers(a)yahoogroups.com> wrote:
>
>
> I’d agree with Dudley.
> Bridge of Athlone is an easy dance for 4/5/or 6 couples (I’d line people
> up then walk down the line splitting into sets when I see how many there
> are)
> Waves of Tory is a nice dance – there are several versions of it including
> a complicated ‘official’ Irish version + the version in CDM. But even that
> tends to go wrong and (a) not fit the music (b) end up with one couple at
> the top all the time instead of finishing the dip & dive at the bottom. But
> dip & dive is a fun figure – might puzzle people at first but the a good
> feel when they get it. So I strip out all the complications (copying a
> caller at the Liverpool Irish centre). I call my version Waves of the Sea,
> have 1 long set, lines F&B twice, cast off lead up the middle, dip & dive
> till I think they’ve had enough and I shout swing. I warn them that there
> will be random couples at the top each time..
>
> From: Dudley Laufman jdlaufman(a)comcast.net [trad-dance-callers]
> Sent: 17 January 2019 21:48
> To: trad-dance-callers(a)yahoogroups.com
> Subject: Re: [trad-dance-callers] Ceili wedding
>
>
> Just use your usual ONS repertoire, but use Irish music for most of it.
>
> I've been asked by a bride for a ceili wedding. She was very specific
> about wanting Irish music, which i booked, but she was very vague about
> what ceili dancing was. She said " not really sure the names of the dances,
> we had the one with torpedo, in lines, some squares, dosey does spinning
> and such not sure if that helps."
>
> I do know how to teach ceili, but going into great detail on 3s and 7s and
> jig step didn't seem to really lend itself to a wedding. My plan was
> definitely to include The Haymaker's Jig, Walls of Limerick, maybe Shoe the
> Donkey, but not too get much more complicated than that, subbing in ONS
> material from my regular wedding dances of squares, family dances, etc. but
> done with a little more Irish styling.
>
> So, any advice on more Irish dances that lend themselves well to weddings?
>
> Regards,
> Deborah Hyland
> St. Louis
>
> Sent from Yahoo Mail on Android
>
> --
> Chris www.jigsnreels.com
>
> --
> Nancy Mamlin
> Durham, NC
>
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