Michael, that is indeed the dance I have on my card "Carousel" as a Sicilian circle. It looks like a dance I got a long time ago, and the callers that were travelling at that time were very different from these days. And, I didn't write down who I got it from, unfortunately. It could have been Fred Park, or Frank Hall, or John Krumm, or soemone else. Sorry I can't be more help on the provenance.
However, it is a fun, very accessible dance, and goes really well with bouncy rags. Suzanne -----Original Message----- >From: Michael Dyck >Sent: Oct 8, 2013 10:34 PM >To: [email protected] >Subject: Re: [Callers] A Walk In The Park > >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 >_______________________________________________ >Callers mailing list >[email protected] >http://www.sharedweight.net/mailman/listinfo/callers
