On 2/3/2013 10:25 AM, Jacob & Nancy Bloom wrote:
Hi Kalia,
I do the hand turns and dosido still in the line of six, so the dancers
are in line for the hey at the end of the dosido. When I looked for the
dance on youtube, I found that the versions I found all had the hey
before the turns, but I call it the way I learned it. That was in 1981,
at a late night dance at the All Folk Around The Wrekin festival, with
music by the Oyster Ceilidh band, and calling by someone who was wearing
a pencil skirt and high spike heels. (I think that's the only time I've
danced to a caller who couldn't have done the dances they were calling
in the outfit they were wearing.)
Having done morris jigs in stiletto heels, I can say with assurance that
you can dance in just about anything :>) The pencil skirt could slow
you down a bit, I admit, but where there's a will there's a way.
It was educational looking at the youtube versions. I found both one
done by a Cornish performing group (they moved out into two facing lines
for the hand turns, and left out the swing entirely), and one recorded
at a ceilidh dance, in which the balances had morphed into "kick-jumps".
The version I learned has the kick-jumps, and the hand turns are done in
the facing lines of 3. Funny how these things change around. But
however you call it, it's a great dance!
Kalia
