[Callers] Irish Contra Dances

Don Heinold via Callers callers at lists.sharedweight.net
Mon Apr 6 02:35:14 PDT 2015


Thanks to one and all for their inpu and support! Just what I needed. ~ Don
       From: Liz and Bill via Callers <callers at lists.sharedweight.net>
 To: John Sweeney <info at contrafusion.co.uk> 
Cc: John Sweeney via Callers <callers at lists.sharedweight.net>; callers-request at lists.sharedweight.net 
 Sent: Saturday, April 4, 2015 4:11 PM
 Subject: Re: [Callers] Irish Contra Dances
   
Hi John and Don,

    The "English" people in the clip you mentioned are mostly
Kiwis but close enough. That was taken at our monthly
dance when we were joined by a contra tour from the USA
and also John and Hilary Turner from the UK.

    We often get a large group of teens coming because I used
to run barn dances for them. As a 'reward' for supporting the
contra dance I usually have Waves of Tory for them half way.
They are so 'good' at dipping and diving that they want it even
faster than normal, so they  form a set of 7 couples and
dance double speed while the rest are dancing the 5 couple version
to the 48 bar music.

> English people dancing Waves of Tory:
> https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b1qtN-kw6Mg
>
> Note how the timing, styling, speed are all completely different, especially
> on the Dip 'n' Dive - the Irish take their time, the English rush through
> it.

Scroll down the page http://christchurch.contradance.nz/past.html
to February 2012 to see more the dances
we ran at that time when we had the contra (and English) visitors.

Cheers, Bill
PS - Similar visits will happen Feb 2016, so NZ will be the place
for contra gypsies.



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