Jeffrey Petrovitch wrote: > > Also in the dance Money Musk there is a "lines of three forward and > back" and it really is not a "forward and back"; it is a "balance in and > balance out", which is danced differently. What does this have to do > with discussion of less used figures; I think it is important to know > dance moves like contra corners, balance in and balance out and once > again the "little things" that have brought contra dancing to where it > is today. It is the history!!! >
In a similar vein, I recently learned from Peter Rogers that in the English figure called "forward a double and back," the double refers not to doing the move as a pair, but rather taking two measures of music to move forward and two to move back back. Forward a single and back would be equivalent (in timing) to a contra balance, forward a double and back would be equivalent in timing (if not shape) to long lines forward and back. Also, I have intuited that in the move "roll away with a half sashay," the half sashay refers to the non-rolling individual stepping sideways into the original place of the rolling individual. Can anyone confirm this? Jerome Grisanti
