On Mon, Sep 09, 2013, Sam Whited wrote: > 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?
Yeah, I still think gypsy works better than dosido for this. Modern Western Square Dance -- unlike contra, there's an actual ruling body (Callerlab) that formally defines correct square dancing. I used "MWSD" specifically to distinguish it from traditional squares because we're having another thread about that; like contra, there's no real concept for "correctness" in trad squares. -- Hugs and backrubs -- I break Rule 6 http://rule6.info/ <*> <*> <*> "Some people seem to have the attitude that a life not masturbated over in public is not worth living." --SJM/AM
