Re: [Callers] Contras which feature a "Dublin Bay" figure

[April Blum via Callers]

I recall dancing one called Doublin Back. And I have written one called Doublin 
Dublin. 
April Blum On Jan 16, 2017 5:20 PM, Tavi Merrill via Callers 
<callers@lists.sharedweight.net> wrote:
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> 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." 
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> 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. 
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> 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