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Elainerb

Elainerb

Re: The Guid Man of Ballangigh

Feb. 3, 2006, 1:22 p.m. (Message 44091, in reply to message 44074)

This one was definitely an English dance fist. The original movements are  
similar (two people dancing through the other two and back to place in 4  bars)  
but the pairings are completely different and it flows  beautifully.  This is 
one of those dances that should have been left as an  English dance.  Not 
sure how some of these old English dances 'morph' into  a similar but different 
Scottish dancee that usually don't work as well.!
 
Marjorie has the history on this one and often uses this in her classes of  
English/Scottish similarities and differences etc.
 
Elaine

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