On 5/28/2013 12:19 PM, Donald Perley wrote:
Last year the 200th anniversary of Hull's Victory had a lot of callers
featuring that fine chestnut.
Today marks the 200th for the battle of Sacket's Harbor (second of 2
anyway) so consider adding it to your program in the next week. I
called it last weekend to an enthused crowd.
The next two Fridays, May 31 and June 7, Scott Meyer and I will be
leading workshops on Chestnut Contras prior to the Urbana Country
Dancers' regular contra dances in Urbana, IL. We will be doing a number
of different classic dances including Hull's Victory and Sackett's
Harbor. Here is the list of dances we will be selecting from for the
workshops.
Chorus Jig
Hull's Victory
Lady of the Lake
Lady Walpole's Reel
Petronella
Portland Fancy
Rory O'More
Sackett's Harbor
There were several others we considered, but had to leave off the
list. We could easily have added a 3rd or even a 4th workshop. We hope
to give our local dancers a feel for some of the history of contra dance
and where some of the figures they encounter in modern dances came from.
Jonathan
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Jonathan Sivier
Caller of Contra, English and Early American Dances
jsivier AT illinois DOT edu
Dance Page: http://www.sivier.me/dance_leader.html
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A: It depends on what dance you call!
