Well said Tavi! Andrea Sent from my iPhone
On Mar 17, 2012, at 1:43 PM, tavi merrill <melodiouswoodch...@gmail.com> wrote: > To pick up on John's point from this side of the pond, there are plenty of > duple improper dances that end with a partner swing for the active couples. > > There are quite a few dances which could be started in either becket > formation or duple improper, allowing further scope in the pairing of dance > and music: i recently had the challenge of trying to pair a dance with > "Staten Island Hornpipe", which has very assertive balances in measures 3 > and 4 of the b-part. One of the few satisfying moves there would be "walk > in to wavy lines", but off the cuff i couldn't think of any dances with > those "trip to" wavy lines in the B part (I'm sure they're out there, > though....). Becket variations of existing dances provided some options. > > I guess what i'm [being overly abstract about] here is the idea that saying > a dance requires certain moves to be a "becket dance" - or that a certain > formation precludes certain moves - unnecessarily confines the form. > Associating a dance with the composer's intended "starting formation" > allows us to not only focus on the choreographic flow that starting > formation provides, but to create variations when it's advantageous. > > > > Message: 1 >> Date: Fri, 16 Mar 2012 17:05:20 -0000 >> From: "John Sweeney" <i...@contrafusion.co.uk> >> To: <call...@sharedweight.net> >> Subject: Re: [Callers] What is a Becket >> Message-ID: <6E7516378A0B4D8CADD73426CE5E3BD1@study> >> Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" >> >> Becky Nankivell said: >> "A duple improper can't have a partner swing as the last move." >> >> Lots of old duple improper dances do - the swing is just across the set >> instead of along the side. And some modern dances do the same, perhaps >> more on this side of the Atlantic. >> >> Of course you have to careful calling one like that if the hall is too >> crowded lengthwise. >> >> Happy dancing, >> John >> >> John Sweeney, Dancer, England j...@modernjive.com 01233 625 362 & >> 07802 940 574 >> http://www.modernjive.com for Modern Jive Events & DVDs >> http://www.contrafusion.co.uk for Dancing in Kent >> >> >> >> > _______________________________________________ > Callers mailing list > call...@sharedweight.net > http://www.sharedweight.net/mailman/listinfo/callers
