Note that the Scottish “Gay Gordons” dance, which has been a standard there for I don’t know how long, features a promenade where couples walk forward then turn and continue backward, then come back forward and turn and continue backing up again. Doing four instead of two in line would seem a likely evolution. Martha
> On Jan 16, 2017, at 2:20 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
