I'm sure there are others but here's my dance titled "Angry Birds"
A1: Circle left 3/4,
Mad robin, facing neighbors with gents passing in front first
A2: Gents take right arm around each other's torso to do a U turn back to
their partner (spin optional)
Partners swing
B1: Ladies cross the set by R shoulders, using right arms around torso to
spin each other into a twirl
Neighbors swing
B2: Balance and spin to the right (Petronella)
Balance and spin to the right again, spinning extra to face new
neighbors
It includes both the mad robin joke, and a catapult-style fling. I have not
tried this out in the wild; I'm sure it "works" but no idea how the gents
will react to the arm around, or whether it's actually fun.
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> 1. Re: Sashay (John Sweeney)
> 2. "Full sashay"/"MadRobin" (was Re: Arms Folded in Dosidos)
> (James Saxe)
> 3. Re: "Full sashay"/"MadRobin" (was Re: Arms Folded in Dosidos)
> (Jonathan Sivier)
> 4. Re: "Full sashay"/"MadRobin" (was Re: Arms Folded in Dosidos)
> (Charles Hannum)
> 5. Re: "Full sashay"/"MadRobin" (was Re: Arms Folded in Dosidos)
> (Jonathan Sivier)
> 6. Favorite Hot Weather Dances (Donna Hunt)
> 7. Re: "Full sashay"/"MadRobin" (was Re: Arms Folded in Dosidos)
> (Ric Goldman (letsdance))
> 8. Re: "Full sashay"/"MadRobin" (was Re: Arms Folded in Dosidos)
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> Message: 1
> Date: Sat, 1 Jun 2013 17:05:04 +0100
> From: "John Sweeney" <[email protected]>
> To: <[email protected]>
> Subject: Re: [Callers] Sashay
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> Sorry - it changed chasse (with an accent) to "chass?"
>
> John
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> Message: 2
> Date: Sat, 1 Jun 2013 09:10:17 -0700
> From: James Saxe <[email protected]>
> To: Caller's discussion list <[email protected]>
> Subject: [Callers] "Full sashay"/"MadRobin" (was Re: Arms Folded in
> Dosidos)
> Message-ID: <[email protected]>
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> On May 31, 2013, at 12:50 PM, Aahz Maruch wrote:
>
> > Bit of trivia I learned recently from square dancing: what we call a
> > Mad
> > Robin is also properly called a sashay (as opposed to the usual
> > half-sashay....).
>
> I've mentioned this before on this list and I guess it's time
> to mention it again: Check out the B2 part of the dance "Saint
> Paddy's Day" by Kirston Koths, as seen in _Zesty Contras_ or at
>
> http://www.quiteapair.us/calling/acdol/dance/acd_137.html
>
> The action that Kirston describes as a a "full sashay" (facing
> neighbor and maintaining eye contact as much as possible, walk
> clockwise around partner) is precisely the figure that has
> come to be known to contra dancers as a "Mad Robin", though in
> Kirston's dance it's done with dancers moving around partners
> across the set while looking up or down at neighbors. Kirston's
> description of the action as a "full sashay" certainly derives
> from one of the historical uses of that term in square dancing
> (Ken Sweeney's observation that "full sashay" is not currently
> part of the approved MWSD terminology as codified by CALLERLAB
> notwithstanding).
>
> Kirston wrote "Saint Paddy's Day" in 1982. The term "Mad Robin"
> entered the contra dance lexicon (for an action that only
> vaguely resembles something from the English country dance
> "Mad Robin") much later--perhaps in the late 1990's.
>
> Can any of you pinpoint who introduced term "Mad Robin" with
> it's current contra dance meaning, or when, or what dance they
> were describing?
>
> --Jim
>
>
>
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>
> Message: 3
> Date: Sat, 1 Jun 2013 11:55:13 -0500
> From: Jonathan Sivier <[email protected]>
> To: "Caller's discussion list" <[email protected]>
> Subject: Re: [Callers] "Full sashay"/"MadRobin" (was Re: Arms Folded
> in Dosidos)
> Message-ID: <[email protected]>
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> On 6/1/2013 11:10 AM, James Saxe wrote:
> > Can any of you pinpoint who introduced term "Mad Robin" with
> > it's current contra dance meaning, or when, or what dance they
> > were describing?
>
> The name, and figure, almost certainly come from the English country
> dance Mad Robin (Playford 1687) as reconstructed by Cecil Sharp in 1922.
> In this dance the 1's do the figure of dancing around their neighbor,
> usually while maintaining eye contact with their partner, and then the
> 2's do it. In the figure as it has been imported into contra modern
> contra dances it is usually done with everyone moving at once.
>
> An idea for a workshop. Do a variety of older dances, ECD and early
> American, with various figures now considered to be standard in contra
> and square dance as well as modern dances with those figures.
> Possibilities would be Hunsdon House (1665) with a grand square and Mad
> Robin as well as any one of several different dances from the 1600's and
> 1700's with heys and contra corner type figures. I think I will propose
> this as a possible workshop for our local dance group, though it will
> have to be in the fall since our summer schedule is already set.
>
> Jonathan
> -----
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> Message: 4
> Date: Sat, 1 Jun 2013 13:11:01 -0400
> From: Charles Hannum <[email protected]>
> To: "Caller's discussion list" <[email protected]>
> Subject: Re: [Callers] "Full sashay"/"MadRobin" (was Re: Arms Folded
> in Dosidos)
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> I've been trying to rename it to "Angry Bird", but I haven't got much
> buy-in yet.
>
>
> On Sat, Jun 1, 2013 at 12:55 PM, Jonathan Sivier <[email protected]
> >wrote:
>
> > On 6/1/2013 11:10 AM, James Saxe wrote:
> >
> >> Can any of you pinpoint who introduced term "Mad Robin" with
> >> it's current contra dance meaning, or when, or what dance they
> >> were describing?
> >>
> >
> > The name, and figure, almost certainly come from the English country
> > dance Mad Robin (Playford 1687) as reconstructed by Cecil Sharp in 1922.
> > In this dance the 1's do the figure of dancing around their neighbor,
> > usually while maintaining eye contact with their partner, and then the
> 2's
> > do it. In the figure as it has been imported into contra modern contra
> > dances it is usually done with everyone moving at once.
> >
> > An idea for a workshop. Do a variety of older dances, ECD and early
> > American, with various figures now considered to be standard in contra
> and
> > square dance as well as modern dances with those figures. Possibilities
> > would be Hunsdon House (1665) with a grand square and Mad Robin as well
> as
> > any one of several different dances from the 1600's and 1700's with heys
> > and contra corner type figures. I think I will propose this as a
> possible
> > workshop for our local dance group, though it will have to be in the fall
> > since our summer schedule is already set.
> >
> > Jonathan
> > -----
> > Jonathan Sivier
> > Caller of Contra, English and Early American Dances
> > jsivier AT illinois DOT edu
> > Dance Page: http://www.sivier.me/dance_**leader.html<
> http://www.sivier.me/dance_leader.html>
> > -----
> > Q: How many angels can dance on the head of a pin?
> > A: It depends on what dance you call!
> >
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> Message: 5
> Date: Sat, 1 Jun 2013 12:26:04 -0500
> From: Jonathan Sivier <[email protected]>
> To: "Caller's discussion list" <[email protected]>
> Subject: Re: [Callers] "Full sashay"/"MadRobin" (was Re: Arms Folded
> in Dosidos)
> Message-ID: <[email protected]>
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> On 6/1/2013 12:11 PM, Charles Hannum wrote:
> > I've been trying to rename it to "Angry Bird", but I haven't got much
> > buy-in yet.
>
> How about "Crazy Crow", "Wrought-up Wren", "Disturbed Duck", "Insane
> Ibis", "Passionate Pigeon" or others along the same lines? ;-)
>
> Jonathan
>
>
>
>
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> Message: 6
> Date: Sat, 1 Jun 2013 13:43:10 -0400 (EDT)
> From: Donna Hunt <[email protected]>
> To: [email protected]
> Subject: [Callers] Favorite Hot Weather Dances
> Message-ID: <[email protected]>
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> Hi
> As the summer is beginning (nearing 90 degrees today!) I'm wondering if
> any of you have favorite dances that you call that are not all action all
> the time. Please share modern dances that have interesting choreography
> and will help to keep the dancers cool or at least give them a break from
> the action for some of the dance.
>
>
>
> Thanks
>
> Donna Hunt
>
>
>
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>
> Message: 7
> Date: Sat, 1 Jun 2013 14:03:34 -0400
> From: "Ric Goldman \(letsdance\)" <[email protected]>
> To: "'Caller's discussion list'" <[email protected]>
> Subject: Re: [Callers] "Full sashay"/"MadRobin" (was Re: Arms Folded
> in Dosidos)
> Message-ID: <[email protected]>
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> There's a Morris dance which uses the figure called Belligerent Blue jay.
> :-)
>
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: [email protected] [mailto:
> [email protected]] On Behalf Of Charles Hannum
> > Sent: Saturday, June 01, 2013 1:11 PM
> > To: Caller's discussion list
> > Subject: Re: [Callers] "Full sashay"/"MadRobin" (was Re: Arms Folded in
> Dosidos)
> >
> > I've been trying to rename it to "Angry Bird", but I haven't got much
> > buy-in yet.
> >
> >
> > On Sat, Jun 1, 2013 at 12:55 PM, Jonathan Sivier <[email protected]
> >wrote:
> >
> > > On 6/1/2013 11:10 AM, James Saxe wrote:
> > >
> > >> Can any of you pinpoint who introduced term "Mad Robin" with
> > >> it's current contra dance meaning, or when, or what dance they
> > >> were describing?
> > >>
> > >
> > > The name, and figure, almost certainly come from the English country
> > > dance Mad Robin (Playford 1687) as reconstructed by Cecil Sharp in
> 1922.
> > > In this dance the 1's do the figure of dancing around their neighbor,
> > > usually while maintaining eye contact with their partner, and then the
> 2's
> > > do it. In the figure as it has been imported into contra modern contra
> > > dances it is usually done with everyone moving at once.
> > >
> > > An idea for a workshop. Do a variety of older dances, ECD and early
> > > American, with various figures now considered to be standard in contra
> and
> > > square dance as well as modern dances with those figures. Possibilities
> > > would be Hunsdon House (1665) with a grand square and Mad Robin as
> well as
> > > any one of several different dances from the 1600's and 1700's with
> heys
> > > and contra corner type figures. I think I will propose this as a
> possible
> > > workshop for our local dance group, though it will have to be in the
> fall
> > > since our summer schedule is already set.
> > >
> > > Jonathan
> > > -----
> > > Jonathan Sivier
> > > Caller of Contra, English and Early American Dances
> > > jsivier AT illinois DOT edu
> > > Dance Page: http://www.sivier.me/dance_**leader.html<
> http://www.sivier.me/dance_leader.html>
> > > -----
> > > Q: How many angels can dance on the head of a pin?
> > > A: It depends on what dance you call!
> > >
> > >
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> Message: 8
> Date: Sat, 1 Jun 2013 14:11:47 -0400
> From: Andrea Nettleton <[email protected]>
> To: Caller's discussion list <[email protected]>
> Subject: Re: [Callers] "Full sashay"/"MadRobin" (was Re: Arms Folded
> in Dosidos)
> Message-ID: <[email protected]>
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> But Mad Robin is a nickname for a Puck-like character, in literature.
> Also known as Robin Goodfellow, a player of harmless pranks, random doer
> of little good deeds, a bit mischievous and secretive, given to pinching a
> sleeping queen of a night. I think perhaps the author of the ECD thought
> the flirtatious nature of the move was a bit Puckish. So alternate bird
> names wouldn't be proper substitutes. I have also hard the move called a
> shuttle, which I think diminishes the flirty part too much. Mad Robin
> works, even if less descriptive than we might like. Playful Parallels just
> doesn't quite cut it. But if we think of Mad Robin as Robin Goodfellow,
> aka Puck, maybe it sits a little more easily as a name for that very
> playful move.
> Andrea
>
> Sent from my iOnlypretendtomultitask
>
> On Jun 1, 2013, at 1:26 PM, Jonathan Sivier <[email protected]> wrote:
>
> > On 6/1/2013 12:11 PM, Charles Hannum wrote:
> >> I've been trying to rename it to "Angry Bird", but I haven't got much
> >> buy-in yet.
> >
> > How about "Crazy Crow", "Wrought-up Wren", "Disturbed Duck", "Insane
> Ibis", "Passionate Pigeon" or others along the same lines? ;-)
> >
> > Jonathan
> >
> >
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