strathspey@strathspey.org:40620

EvaDreyer

3 X quicktime dances and music

Feb. 12, 2005, 5:25 p.m. (Message 40620, in reply to message 40613)

Usually I am reluctant to publish dances I have written. That is because I  
don't find them innovative enough to merit publication - they are usually  
written for specific (teaching) purposes and therefore lack originality. This  
one, however, was written for the wedding of Marianne (daughter of Wilma  
Menzies-Sommer, some of you will know her) and Thorsten in Dortmund-Barop in  
September 2003. It is, in fact, a 3 x 32 Jig (mainly because we were one couple  
short) and was devised with the enjoyment of the audience in mind. Anyway, here  
goes:
 
BAROP WEDDING 3 x 32 Jig for 3 couples in a 3 couple set
 
1-8      1 c turn RH; cast into 2nd place, set  advancing passing each other 
(shoulder ad 
            lib.) to finish back to back in the centre, facing own side of  
the dance. 
9-16     All dance Double Triangles. On the last 2  bars, 2 and 3 c set 
advancing, 1 c set 
           turning around  each other RSh, finishing ready for
17-24   2, 1, 3 c dance an Allemande, finishing in the order  312
25-32   1and 2 c dance Right and Left.
 
Quite an energetic dance, but our dancers as well as the audience liked it.  
We used a recording of MacPherson's Jig - I didn't have much of a  choice, for 
reasons discussed earlier. 
 
Greetings from Essen, Germany,
Eva Dreyer