Postie's Last Arch

Chris1Ronald

Message 26305 · 7 Jun 2001 02:52:23 · Fixed-width font · Whole thread

In a message dated 05/05/2001 4:15:26 PM Eastern Daylight Time,
x.xxxxxxxx@xxxxxxx.xx writes:

> Of course errors in a crib and the existence of different "flavours" of
> a dance (e.g. Mairi's Shoulders; Postie's Last Arch) can really spoil
>

I came across this comment about "Postie's Last Arch" as I was catching up on
a great volume of accumulated messages from the Strathspey list. The
following message was then presumably gobbled up by Anselm's server, or
didn't reach it at all. Hence the delayed reaction.

I assume the allusion is to Postie's Jig. Though I have danced Postie's Jig
many times (with somewhat diminishing enthusiasm, I have to admit), I have
never encountered more than one way of dancing the last arch (unless the
dancers are forgetting who makes the arch).

Could someone enlighten me about this?

Thanks, Chris.