[Callers] Dolphin Heys in contra dances

[Yoyo Zhou via Callers]

On Mon, Jun 13, 2016 at 8:42 AM, Luke Donforth via Callers <
callers at lists.sharedweight.net> wrote:

> Looks like I'm late to the party. Glad to hear other folks are having fun
> with it :-)
>
> I didn't know it came via Scottish, but that makes sense. It's called
> tandem or alternating tandem reels there?
> It's not clear to me how it ended up being called a dolphin hey instead of
> a falcon hey; but I'm not going to try to change that vernacular.
>
> When I ran it for contras, I had a demo on the floor (jumping down myself
> to do it, or working with a couple I had taught ahead of time). If I keep
> it rotation, I'll see if I can develop the language to teach it completely
> verbally; but for now I'll rely on a demo. I'd also be curious how other
> folks teach it; and I'll query some instructors of Scottish and/or English.
>
> It was fun to see Kittyhawk Hornpipe in the RPDLW archive. Thank you Yoyo
> for pointing that out. I didn't manage to find a transcription of Nils's
> Maggot. What dance did you substitute a dolphin hey into?
>

It was indeed Kittyhawk Hornpipe that I called.

Martha's dance (in which actually the 2s act as a unit in the hey for 3) is
on her website: https://sites.google.com/site/marthawildscallsofthewild/

Yoyo Zhou
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