English!

Bless Missy for giving us a chance to call some English Dances at a Dance Discovery rehearsal on Tuesday. I called Elverton Grove and Key to the Cellar, and Bob called Mage on a Cree. Missy called several dances (really well, too), let's see...Fenterlarick, and Fandango, and Lillibulero and another one or two) Mark, Missy's husband, called Winter Solstice, which contains a grand square done with an extra couple in the middle. The grand square is great fun, but the surprisingly lovely move is a series of curlicue promenades cascading around the set.

Goodness, I love dancing English, particularly when there's enough room. We had twelve people in a large church basement, so we could really walk way out to make those grand moves that so many English dances have.

Then last night, Wednesday, we were practicing at the Calling Party some of the dances we'll call at the Hatchling dance on September 6, and Bob tried out some of the "contrafied" versions of English dances. There were enough of us who have done the English versions now that we wanted to dance them, too. Bless me if these heavy-duty contradancers didn't decide they liked the English versions better. Forgive me if I smile...

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