Re: [Callers] "I've Got A Bad Feeling About This" -- does this dance exist?

2018-02-23 Thread John Sweeney via Callers
Hi Amy,

  No, no, that’s not what See-Saw means!

 

  You can see a See-Saw being performed just after 31 seconds into:

https://archive.org/details/square_dancing

 

  No, just kidding.  

 

Dosido and Seesaw mean lots of different things (I have a contra dance with 
three completely different “Dosidos”!).  Your use of See-Saw is the one most 
contra dancers know, though Modern Western Square Dancing has redefined it as a 
Left Shoulder Gypsy!

 

You’re in charge! Call it what you like!

 

Happy dancing,  

   John   



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From: Amy Cann [mailto:ac...@putneyschool.org] 
Sent: 23 February 2018 16:15
To: Caller's discussion list 
Subject: Re: [Callers] "I've Got A Bad Feeling About This" -- does this dance 
exist?

 

Hello again all -- it has been brought (gently) to my attention that I have 
been laboring under a delusion, that I have strayed from the path...


"Do-SI-do, do-SA-do" does not mean back-to-back starting right shoulder, then 
back to back starting left shoulder.


Deep down I know this, I swear, I know they're the same term with different 
accents, but SOMEwhere.SOMEhow I started using the phrase/habit with a 
particular wedding dance and it stuck. No idea why. Total brain fart. 

Thank you, Tony Parkes, for leading me back into the light of truth. 

I'm going to go recite the moves of Moneymusk three times and light a candle to 
Ralph Page and hope that's enough penance.

Please replace the B1 part of my silly Star Wars trash compactor dance with "Do 
Si Do, See-Saw"

Yikes,

Amy

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Re: [Callers] "I've Got A Bad Feeling About This" -- does this dance exist?

2018-02-23 Thread Amy Cann via Callers
Hello again all -- it has been brought (gently) to my attention that I have
been laboring under a delusion, that I have strayed from the path...

"Do-SI-do, do-SA-do" does not mean back-to-back starting right shoulder,
then back to back starting left shoulder.

Deep down I know this, I swear, I know they're the same term with different
accents, but SOMEwhere.SOMEhow I started using the phrase/habit with a
particular wedding dance and it stuck. No idea why. Total brain fart.

Thank you, Tony Parkes, for leading me back into the light of truth.
I'm going to go recite the moves of Moneymusk three times and light a
candle to Ralph Page and hope that's enough penance.

Please replace the B1 part of my silly Star Wars trash compactor dance with
"Do Si Do, See-Saw"

Yikes,
Amy



On Thu, Feb 22, 2018 at 2:22 PM, Amy Cann  wrote:

> Hey all! This dance just popped into my head as part of a discussion over
> on the pourparler/family dance community.
>
> I have NO idea if I've just reinvented someone else's wheel or not. Anyone
> know?
>
>
> Working Title: *"I've Got a Bad Feeling About This" *
> https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7U3Oti2L8S4
> Suggested Tune: *Cantina Theme*  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g6PDcBhODqo
>
>
> Eight or more couples, "Big Square" formation
>
> Prep: form up like you're going to do a big circle, then "square the
> circle": divide dancers into four equal sets of partners, lined up along
> four NSEW walls.
> Wave at people across the room, figure out who your opposite pair is.
> Sides and Top walls can be slightly different numbers of partners as long
> as they match each *other*.
>
> *Side walls advance, right hand allemande* with opposite, retire
> *Top walls sashay *to opposite side (if gendered: "Drive in the right
> lane, men passing back to back")
> *Side walls advance, left hand allemande*, retire
> *Top walls sashay* home
>
> Everyone *dosido* partner,
> *do-SA-do* partner,
> *promenade* to next WALL.
>
> Do the dance four times with calls, four times "on your own"
>
> Possible prep practice: Tops advance, meet/identify your opposite, retire.
> Sides in, identify, retire. All promenade to next wall.
>
> Depending on size of hall, number of couples, and experience
> level/sobriety of dancers, this could either be cleanly/tightly phrased or
> a total pig-pile, sorta like Foula Reel.
>
> I'm going to totally try this at our (small, square-shaped, local,
> fun-loving and open-minded) Peirce's Hall this weekend, if Steve Howland
> will share the mic for a moment, but before I do:
>
> Does this already exist, and I've just forgotten?
> Or anything similar?
> Does it work in real life, with the right crowd/band/hall?
>
> Kinda excited to find out...
>
> Cheers,
> Amy
>
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Re: [Callers] "I've Got A Bad Feeling About This" -- does this dance exist?

2018-02-22 Thread Folk Dance via Callers
There's Suicide Square from Sheffield, giant square for as many as you can
fit

A1 Head ends of the room take their partner in a ballroom hold and gallop
eight steps into the centre and back
A2 Side do the same
B1 Balance and swing your partner
B2 Men form and inner circle facing out, women form and outer circle facing
in, every body circle left, then find a new partner

Best done with a large number of university students, to loud tunes with a
great deal of vigour.
Finding a partner tends to be less than orderly and risky since the first
part of the dance is a full on gallop.
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[Callers] "I've Got A Bad Feeling About This" -- does this dance exist?

2018-02-22 Thread Amy Cann via Callers
Hey all! This dance just popped into my head as part of a discussion over
on the pourparler/family dance community.

I have NO idea if I've just reinvented someone else's wheel or not. Anyone
know?


Working Title: *"I've Got a Bad Feeling About This" *
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7U3Oti2L8S4
Suggested Tune: *Cantina Theme*  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g6PDcBhODqo


Eight or more couples, "Big Square" formation

Prep: form up like you're going to do a big circle, then "square the
circle": divide dancers into four equal sets of partners, lined up along
four NSEW walls.
Wave at people across the room, figure out who your opposite pair is.
Sides and Top walls can be slightly different numbers of partners as long
as they match each *other*.

*Side walls advance, right hand allemande* with opposite, retire
*Top walls sashay *to opposite side (if gendered: "Drive in the right lane,
men passing back to back")
*Side walls advance, left hand allemande*, retire
*Top walls sashay* home

Everyone *dosido* partner,
*do-SA-do* partner,
*promenade* to next WALL.

Do the dance four times with calls, four times "on your own"

Possible prep practice: Tops advance, meet/identify your opposite, retire.
Sides in, identify, retire. All promenade to next wall.

Depending on size of hall, number of couples, and experience level/sobriety
of dancers, this could either be cleanly/tightly phrased or a total
pig-pile, sorta like Foula Reel.

I'm going to totally try this at our (small, square-shaped, local,
fun-loving and open-minded) Peirce's Hall this weekend, if Steve Howland
will share the mic for a moment, but before I do:

Does this already exist, and I've just forgotten?
Or anything similar?
Does it work in real life, with the right crowd/band/hall?

Kinda excited to find out...

Cheers,
Amy
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