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: > > > 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
Re: [Callers] Contras which feature a "Dublin Bay" figure
April Blum via Callers Wed, 18 Jan 2017 08:50:00 -0800 (PST)
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