Re: [Callers] Teaching Mad Robin

Hi Jerome, Rich et al. Below are a few dances where the see-saw path mad robin is used. In one of them it was called a 'mirror mad robin. ' I have been 'converting' western square dancers to contra, and for them a mirror mad robin is 'half sashay twice." I find (especially in NZ where

Re: [Callers] Teaching Mad Robin

Mad Robin is a chimera: it has the squared off shape of a Grand Square, with its deliberate front-side-back motions, the general foot path of a dosido, in which you and another dancer negotiate around each other - without touching - while sharing a common center the "charged space" and framework

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Rich Goss wrote: > That would be an interesting discussion topic.? Has anyone encountered a > mad robin that is reversed? > -- > In the English dance "Mad Robin," the ones do the mad robin figure following the path of the do-si-do, but when the twos do the figure they are following the path of

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And usually (based on a few dances that I have in my collection), the women start by sliding to the right first, moving through the middle, while the men start by moving to the left, allowing the women to step into the middle first... Looking forward... Linda S. Mrosko 7302 CR 2829

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How about "facing your partner" instead of "looking at your partner"? Then it's just an orientation. Who or what you look at is your own choice. The girls will figure out pretty quickly to look at each other to start the move, and skilled flirts will figure out other possibilities a split second

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Barbara Groh wrote: > > >I prefer to catch the eye of the other lady in a "girl-power, isn't this > >fun" way, since we usually start the move by passing by each other, then > >quickly shift to my partner and smile - so much more community-friendly, > >even flirtatious, IMHO, than the "I can't

Re: [Callers] Teaching Mad Robin

I have seen this taught as a do si do.on the side with your neighbor...then turn shoulder to shoulder (facing partner across the set) and then do the same move but sideways...worked for the group I was dancing in. I have a mad robin in a dance I wrote and will teach it this way until I find, see

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er's discussion list" <call...@sharedweight.net> Sent: Friday, March 26, 2010 7:34:32 AM GMT -08:00 US/Canada Pacific Subject: Re: [Callers] Teaching Mad Robin If you teach it that way, make sure that it is actually the path of a Do Si Do and not a See Saw ___

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-- Friedrich Nietzsche From: hol...@comcast.net To: call...@sharedweight.net Date: Fri, 26 Mar 2010 09:49:37 -0400 Subject: [Callers] Teaching Mad Robin Hi all, I am looking for suggestions on how best to teach a "Mad Robin" to contra dancers who have not encountered

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Linda wrote: > In my opinion, the most confusing part is why anyone calls this figure "Mad >Robin." What does a mad robin do? Has anyone ever seen a mad robin? Worse yet, the "mad robin" figure in contra isn't even the same as the mad robin figure in the Mad Robin English dance it's

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follows the dosido path, just depends on if you > start from the gent below, or gent above. > > > - Original Message - > From: "Jack Mitchell" <jamit...@mindspring.com> > To: "Caller's discussion list" <call...@sharedweight.net> >

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facebook.com/lmrosko "We should consider every day lost on which we have not danced at least once." -- Friedrich Nietzsche > From: hol...@comcast.net > To: call...@sharedweight.net > Date: Fri, 26 Mar 2010 09:49:37 -0400 > Subject

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a Pacific Subject: Re: [Callers] Teaching Mad Robin Rickey wrote: > > I am looking for suggestions on how best to teach a "Mad Robin" to > contra dancers who have not encountered it before. It is in > "Joyride" ... I am planning on doing this in a venue where it

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Rickey wrote: > > I am looking for suggestions on how best to teach a "Mad Robin" to > contra dancers who have not encountered it before. It is in > "Joyride" ... I am planning on doing this in a venue where it may > not be feasible to do a demo. > I would not call joyride to people who've

Re: [Callers] Teaching Mad Robin

If you teach it that way, make sure that it is actually the path of a Do Si Do and not a See Saw J On 3/26/2010 10:00 AM, Rich Goss wrote: It's the same path as a dosido. Have them do a dosido and notice their path, then lock eyes across the set with their partner and follow the same

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neighbor do si do Stacy Rose Coos Bay, OR -Original Message- From: callers-boun...@sharedweight.net [mailto:callers-boun...@sharedweight.net] On Behalf Of Rickey Sent: Friday, March 26, 2010 6:50 AM To: call...@sharedweight.net Subject: [Callers] Teaching Mad Robin Hi all, I am looki

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It's the same path as a dosido. Have them do a dosido and notice their path, then lock eyes across the set with their partner and follow the same path sideways around the same neighbor they did the dosodo with. Seems to work. Rich On 3/26/10 6:49 AM, "Rickey" wrote: > Hi

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[mailto:callers-boun...@sharedweight.net] On Behalf Of Rickey Sent: Friday, March 26, 2010 9:50 AM To: call...@sharedweight.net Subject: [Callers] Teaching Mad Robin Hi all, I am looking for suggestions on how best to teach a "Mad Robin" to contra dancers who have not encountered

[Callers] Teaching Mad Robin

Hi all, I am looking for suggestions on how best to teach a "Mad Robin" to contra dancers who have not encountered it before. It is in "Joyride" after a Gypsy and I have tried suggesting that they just let their feet take them around on the same path as the Gypsy did while turning to face their

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, JD Erskine <saila...@victoria.tc.ca> wrote: > From: JD Erskine <saila...@victoria.tc.ca> > Subject: [Callers] Teaching Mad Robin. Was:Re: name of dance > To: "Caller's discussion list" <call...@sharedweight.net> > Received: Tuesday, 7 October, 2008, 6:38 AM

[Callers] Teaching Mad Robin. Was:Re: name of dance

Delia Clark wrote: Holy cow, I am feeling so out of it!! I have heard of a mad robin but have no idea how to teach one and I haven't even heard of a half pousett. Would one of you kind master callers fill me in when you get a chance? Thanks!!! snip Delia Clark Alan and others have