what are those little chubby red bananas? Plantains? Peel the Plantain? nah.... The move is still very much "Peel the Banana" bill
> From: [email protected] > To: [email protected] > Date: Wed, 13 Nov 2013 13:04:38 -0500 > Subject: Re: [Callers] Peel the Banana > > My impression had been that "strip the willow" is weaving down the > middle, whereas "peel the banana" is a descriptive name for an outside > move - a head couple casts off and each line follows their respective > head to the bottom. Peel the banana is definitely better understood by > beginners/ONS dancers than cast off! Although I use both when teaching. > > If the heads are casting off around a short set or a square, maybe > "cast off and promenade half way" and/or "peel the orange" might be > more evocative! idk > > Joy > Durham, NC > > > On Nov 13, 2013, at 12:38 PM, Bill Olson wrote: > > > Isn't 'strip the willow' the same as "reel the set" as in a Virginia > > reel.. I never thought the peel the banana was part of that figure, > > but maybe it IS!! > > > > > > b > > > >> Date: Wed, 13 Nov 2013 09:35:28 -0800 > >> From: [email protected] > >> To: [email protected] > >> Subject: Re: [Callers] Peel the Banana > >> > >> I think that "strip the willow" is also used, though perhaps only > >> in the > >> dance by that name. > >> > >> Les > >> (who is new here, first post) > >> > >> > >> > >> On Wed, Nov 13, 2013 at 9:27 AM, Bill Olson <[email protected]> > >> wrote: > >> > >>> Ben, Paul Rosenberg calls it "Peel the Banana" and has written a > >>> whole > >>> book of "family dances" by that name.. > >>> > >>> > >>> bill > >>> > >>>> Date: Wed, 13 Nov 2013 11:26:03 -0600 > >>>> From: [email protected] > >>>> To: [email protected] > >>>> Subject: [Callers] Peel the Banana > >>>> > >>>> Dear Callers, > >>>> > >>>> I'm writing a dance for 6 couples (in a rectangle, one at the top > >>>> and > >>>> bottom, two on each side), and I want to know if one of the moves > >>>> I wrote > >>>> already has a name. > >>>> > >>>> Bottom couple makes an arch. Top couple splits and walks around the > >>> outside > >>>> of the set, each taking the side couples with them. They then go up > >>> through > >>>> the arch and back to place. > >>>> > >>>> If this move doesn't have a proper name, I'm just going to call > >>>> it "peel > >>>> the banana" because I feel that's the best way to describe it. > >>>> > >>>> Sincerely, > >>>> Ben Hornstein > >>>> _______________________________________________ > >>>> Callers mailing list > >>>> [email protected] > >>>> http://www.sharedweight.net/mailman/listinfo/callers > >>> > >>> _______________________________________________ > >>> Callers mailing list > >>> [email protected] > >>> http://www.sharedweight.net/mailman/listinfo/callers > >>> > >> _______________________________________________ > >> Callers mailing list > >> [email protected] > >> http://www.sharedweight.net/mailman/listinfo/callers > > > > _______________________________________________ > > Callers mailing list > > [email protected] > > http://www.sharedweight.net/mailman/listinfo/callers > > _______________________________________________ > Callers mailing list > [email protected] > http://www.sharedweight.net/mailman/listinfo/callers
