So I remember the 4 facing 4 configuration as being called a "Portland Fancy" or "as in Portland Fancy". The "Portland Fancy" dance itself dates back to the 1800's and has several versions. Here's a 32 bar one from David Millstone: https://youtu.be/J3o2m1aNq0M The B part has "lines forward and back" and then pass thru to start again.. Pretty clear what F&B means, but when I call the dance I always call "lines of 4 forward and back" as several others have suggested on this thread.
In doing my research on this, I came across this video entitled Portland Fancy with Judy Garland and Gene Kelly. This is from the 1950 film "Summer Stock" where an old time barn dance disintegrates into a swing dance.. Kind of says what was happening back in the 50's with traditional dancing but somehow, we survived.. heh heh.. here it is: https://youtu.be/ILjNJ-4RUYE bill <https://youtu.be/ILjNJ-4RUYE> ________________________________ From: Michael Dyck via Contra Callers <[email protected]> Sent: Tuesday, October 18, 2022 2:33 PM To: [email protected] <[email protected]> Subject: [Callers] Re: "long lines forward+back" in 4-face-4 On 2022-10-18 9:26 a.m., Michael Dyck wrote: > > In The Caller's Box, searching for Formation = "Four Facing Four" > and Figures match "long lines", I get 10 hits: > https://nam12.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.ibiblio.org%2Fcontradance%2Fthecallersbox%2F%3Fformation%3DFour%2BFacing%2BFour%26pos_lines%3Dlong%2Blines&data=05%7C01%7C%7Cb14b9fa27cca4c0791ee08dab115c7b8%7C84df9e7fe9f640afb435aaaaaaaaaaaa%7C1%7C0%7C638017004363073376%7CUnknown%7CTWFpbGZsb3d8eyJWIjoiMC4wLjAwMDAiLCJQIjoiV2luMzIiLCJBTiI6Ik1haWwiLCJXVCI6Mn0%3D%7C3000%7C%7C%7C&sdata=9dzMyQwXFy1WXRvz3Gr6BJWZR9G4E0DBdhV%2F7jiUghk%3D&reserved=0 Whoops, that should be: https://nam12.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.ibiblio.org%2Fcontradance%2Fthecallersbox%2F%3Ftitle%3D%26author%3D%26formation%3DFour%2BFacing%2BFour%26pos_lines%3Dlong%2Blines%26pos_mode%3Dall_given&data=05%7C01%7C%7Cb14b9fa27cca4c0791ee08dab115c7b8%7C84df9e7fe9f640afb435aaaaaaaaaaaa%7C1%7C0%7C638017004363073376%7CUnknown%7CTWFpbGZsb3d8eyJWIjoiMC4wLjAwMDAiLCJQIjoiV2luMzIiLCJBTiI6Ik1haWwiLCJXVCI6Mn0%3D%7C3000%7C%7C%7C&sdata=8AWpH3TqDDA6iWAbiFscDNX%2BimG%2FW1LW3M9fccdyjss%3D&reserved=0 (Checked it this time.) -Michael _______________________________________________ Contra Callers mailing list -- [email protected] To unsubscribe send an email to [email protected]
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