Al Olson used the move in his dance “Leaving Home”. It was published in Give & Take by Larry Jennings in 2004. Larry spent a number of years putting this book together, so the dance was written well before this. I did not find the dance in Zesty Contras, Larry’s fist book, published in 1988; but this might mean that Larry did not have space to include it, rather than it had not been written yet. If I were of a betting nature…..I would bet that the dance was from the 1980’s, maybe 1990’s. Linda
On Jan 16, 2017, at 5:20 PM, Tavi Merrill via Callers <callers@lists.sharedweight.net> wrote: > > Dance genealogy question: The figure first appearing in "Dublin Bay" (aka > "We'll Wed and We'll Bed," its title in Playford) morphed in contra into a > modified "lines of four down the hall." > > I know a version of it from Sue Rosen's dance "Handsome Young Maids," where > dancers facing down take four steps forwards, turn alone, and continue down > the hall with four backward steps, then repeat the figure to return up the > hall. > > I'm curious how many other contras this figure, or a version of it, appears > in. Does anyone know of other dances? And any astute dance historians out > there know what the first contra to use this figure is? > > Tavi > _______________________________________________ > Callers mailing list > Callers@lists.sharedweight.net > http://lists.sharedweight.net/listinfo.cgi/callers-sharedweight.net
