On Mon, Jun 13, 2016 at 8:42 AM, Luke Donforth via Callers < [email protected]> wrote:
> Looks like I'm late to the party. Glad to hear other folks are having fun > with it :-) > > I didn't know it came via Scottish, but that makes sense. It's called > tandem or alternating tandem reels there? > It's not clear to me how it ended up being called a dolphin hey instead of > a falcon hey; but I'm not going to try to change that vernacular. > > When I ran it for contras, I had a demo on the floor (jumping down myself > to do it, or working with a couple I had taught ahead of time). If I keep > it rotation, I'll see if I can develop the language to teach it completely > verbally; but for now I'll rely on a demo. I'd also be curious how other > folks teach it; and I'll query some instructors of Scottish and/or English. > > It was fun to see Kittyhawk Hornpipe in the RPDLW archive. Thank you Yoyo > for pointing that out. I didn't manage to find a transcription of Nils's > Maggot. What dance did you substitute a dolphin hey into? > It was indeed Kittyhawk Hornpipe that I called. Martha's dance (in which actually the 2s act as a unit in the hey for 3) is on her website: https://sites.google.com/site/marthawildscallsofthewild/ Yoyo Zhou
