On Mon, Sep 9, 2013 at 6:00 PM, Aahz Maruch <[email protected]> wrote: > Tangenting: Not sure what the contra community considers "correct", but > for MWSD the correct pair of calls would be "walk around corner, see saw > partner", which would translate to gypsy instead of dosido. That would > obviate the need for the footnote. ;-)
Actually, this is worthy of it's own discussion. I wrote this dance ages ago and called it once (with mixed feedback; mostly with concerns that it was too complicated), but never really could figure out what the see saw should be called (it's not really a see saw or a mad robin; somewhere in between). It's almost a Mad Robin in which you don't want to be looking at your opposite. For those who don't want to parse my markup from the last message, here's the dance written out in a more traditional style: Code's Compiling by Sam Whited (Duple becket) > > A1. Neighbor dosido (8); Partner see saw (8) > A2. Shadow swing (16) > > B1. Balance and petronella (8); Balance and petronella (8) > B2. Partner swing (8); Left diagonal: Right and left through (8) > > Notes: The Neighbor dosido into a partner see saw should be one fluid > motion. Resist spinning in the dosido and start revolving slowly over your > right shoulder as you enter the see saw and everything will flow. Make sure > lines have lots of space for the dosido [since it's across the lines which > I normally don't like]. > The important thing is to make sure dancers know that they don't have to stop and change direction for the dosido into a see saw (which makes the dance horribly jerky). In general, it probably needs revision. Also, probably a stupid question, but what's MWSD? —Sam -- Sam Whited pub 4096R/EC2C9934 https://samwhited.com/contact
