On Sat, 1 Jun 2013 11:55:13 -0500, Jonathan Sivier wrote: > The name, and figure, almost certainly come from the English > country dance Mad Robin (Playford 1687) as reconstructed by Cecil > Sharp in 1922. In this dance the 1's do the figure of dancing > around their neighbor, usually while maintaining eye contact with > their partner, and then the 2's do it.
No, that's the American way rather than the Cecil Sharp way. The ones are already progressed at this point, and Sharp says "First woman moves up the middle and casts down to second place; while the first man casts up and moves down the middle into the second place." The fixed stare at partner is an American thing. Playford also uses the word "cast" - you can see the facsimile at: www.izaak.unh.edu/nhltmd/indexes/dancingmaster/Dance/Play4204.htm Sharp and Playford then have the ones doing it the other way round - man up the middle and cast, woman cast up and move down the middle - though I quite understand callers wanting the twos to have a go! On Sat, 1 Jun 2013 14:11:47 -0400, Andrea Nettleton wrote: > I have also hard the move called a shuttle, which I think > diminishes the flirty part too much. Again, the flirty part is an American invention. I call it a shuttle because I think it's a good descriptive word. I've also heard it called Sliding Doors, but (to be pedantic) sliding doors just slide there and back; they don't go round each other! Colin Hume Email [email protected] Web site http://www.colinhume.com
