Don: I already have one.
Michael: Thanks! You succeeded where Google failed.
On Oct 9, 2013 1:35 AM, "Michael Dyck" <[email protected]> wrote:

> 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
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