On 13-10-08 06:05 PM, Ron T Blechner wrote:
Has the dance name "A Walk In The Park" been taken? If not, dibs.
In my personal collection, I have the following dance:
"A Walk in the Park"
author unknown
Sicilian circle
A1 neighbor dosido
partner dosido
A2 ring balance x 2
circle left
B1 ring balance x 2
circle right
B2 men link left arms,
partner star promenade 1.5
(and whirl to face new neighbors, presumably)
I collected it in 1990 from Marian Rose. (Are you on this list, Marian?)
Given that the author is unknown, it's possible that the true title is
also unknown (i.e., that "A Walk in the Park" was simply a name that
Marian attached to the sequence). My notes indicate that Suzanne
Girardot also called it, but under the name "Carousel". (But it's
certainly not the dance of that name by Tom Hinds, nor the one by Don
Flaherty.)
(It's 3/4 the same as another dance I have, "Wobbler's Jig" by Tim
Gerard, collected in 1994 from Marian again.)
Does anyone have better information on this sequence? Note that it might
originally have been longways rather than Sicilian.
-Michael
