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 t
They are all traditional, authored by 'Anon', except for Waterfall Waltz which
was written by Pat Shaw.
Can you share the moves to Lady of the Lake, Waterfall Waltz, Waves of Troy
and Fisher's Hornpipe as well as the authors.
Thanx
Barbara G
TomsRiver,NJ
Lady of the Lake, Waterfall Waltz, W
Hanny
Can you share the moves to Lady of the Lake, Waterfall Waltz, Waves of Troy
and Fisher's Hornpipe as well as the authors.
Thanx
Barbara G
TomsRiver,NJ
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From: Donald Perley
To: kyrmyt
Cc: Caller's discussion list
Sent: Sat, Jun 1, 2013 4:37 pm
Subject: Re: [
JIm:
The first dance I recall ever having a Mad Robin is "Silver
Anniversary Reel" by Jim Kitch. I don't know when he wrote it, but I
first called it in 1997.
LInda
On Jun 1, 2013, at 6:31 PM, James Saxe wrote:
On Jun 1, 2013, at 9:55 AM, Jonathan Sivier quoted me (Jim
Saxe) as asking:
C
On Jun 1, 2013, at 9:55 AM, Jonathan Sivier quoted me (Jim
Saxe) as asking:
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?
and he replied
The name, and figure, almost certainly come from the Englis
Charles wrote:
> I've been trying to rename it to "Angry Bird", but I haven't got much
> buy-in yet.
>
It will always be "Angry Bird" to me.
- Greg
West Coast, USA
and don't forget "tempo tempo tempo"!!!
> To: call...@sharedweight.net
> From: dhuntdan...@aol.com
> Date: Sat, 1 Jun 2013 13:43:10 -0400
> Subject: [Callers] Favorite Hot Weather Dances
>
> Hi
> As the summer is beginning (nearing 90 degrees today!) I'm wondering if any
> of you have favori
On Sat, Jun 01, 2013, John Sweeney wrote:
>
> Aahz Maruch said, "I learned recently from square dancing: what we call
> a Mad Robin is also properly called a sashay."
>
> Well, yes and no...
>
> In Modern Western Square Dancing the definitions are provided by
> CALLERLAB - http://www.callerlab.or
I noticed the original query mentioned "modern" which as much as anything
indicates everyone is active all the time.
On Jun 1, 2013 4:18 PM, "Hanny Budnick" wrote:
> Lady of the Lake, Waterfall Waltz, Waves of Tory, Fisher's Hornpipe - all
> cool, nice and 'wet'. Just kidding
> Hanny
>
> ___
Lady of the Lake, Waterfall Waltz, Waves of Tory, Fisher's Hornpipe - all cool,
nice and 'wet'. Just kidding
Hanny
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 th
There's a Morris dance which uses the figure called Belligerent Blue jay. :-)
> -Original Message-
> From: callers-boun...@sharedweight.net
> [mailto:callers-boun...@sharedweight.net] On Behalf Of Charles Hannum
> Sent: Saturday, June 01, 2013 1:11 PM
> To: Caller's discussion list
> Sub
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
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
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 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
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 recons
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: Chec
Sorry - it changed chasse (with an accent) to "chass?"
John
Aahz Maruch said, "I learned recently from square dancing: what we call
a Mad Robin is also properly called a sashay."
Well, yes and no...
In Modern Western Square Dancing the definitions are provided by
CALLERLAB - http://www.callerlab.org/ - see the "Basic and Mainstream
Definitions".
The Half
I did some Irish Set Dancing at Chippenham Festival last weekend and one
of the dances (from Clare, I believe) had a "dosido" - but in this dance
it was a left shoulder dosido with exactly two clockwise spins.
When did people start dosido spinning in contra dances? Where did the
idea come from?
D
Erik said, "It's just gone out of fashion in the contra dance world"
... and the square dance world, and the ceilidh world, and the English
Country Dance world, and the English folk dance world, etc! :-)
Erik also said, "I have yet to hear one of the proselytizers for the
spinning Do Si Do discuss
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