22 Feb
2016
22 Feb
'16
5:51 p.m.
Hello!
Busy day at work so I'll look at the document in a bit. Two quick things:
1) Yes, circle guard is walk around in a circle2) Stepping - I've quickly read back
through the emails between me and Sinead. I can forward them if that's helpful. I
think we assumed the stepping was a straight 8 the only thing we couldn't work out was
what the 'break' was supposed to be. Sinead found out it was something to do with
Grenoside. I found this video https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_4lToCtXC8E where they do a
'tap tap' on the last beat of the phrase so we added that to the end of a straight
8. Apologies if that's historically wrong but at least it's a legitimate reason
for doing what we do.
Ffion x
Please take a look at my blog on Welsh folk songs - caneuongwerin.wordpress.com
Date: Mon, 22 Feb 2016 16:27:49 +0000
From: katherineh.richardson(a)gmail.com
To: rebeccasuch(a)hotmail.com
CC: team(a)towerravens.org.uk
Subject: Re: [Tower Ravens] Westerhope second draft
I think circle guard is what we do, i.e.get into a curly by 1-5 spinning through the guard
position into curly and a nice sweep of that sword (as we do in Piccadilly and
Westerhope). I asked Ru what a circle guard was and she described what we do.
All looks good.
There is 2 small things I would add if possible:
1. A reference at the end of the stepping quote
2. A reference in the kit bit after reflect influences from the team (appendix)
Kx
On Mon, Feb 22, 2016 at 4:05 PM, Becky Such <rebeccasuch(a)hotmail.com> wrote:
1. Hopefully music will be ok- sounds like Nikki is very much on it :)
2. The stepping seems to depend where you want to take info from. The westerhope info
seems to indicate what we're doing, the stuff on Grenoside is almost certainly
referring to double stepping. But it also says it only happened sometimes, and the team
didn't execute it in the same way. It's totally up to you if you want to try and
gte the team double stepping, I'd have thought you'd be better to mention it in
the notes but perhaps make a joke of suggesting they sound like they performed it badly
and therefore we have chosen not to include it?
3. Tommy and Betty is again up to you, unfortunately I don't think we're going to
be able to create a decent Betty character at this point (being depressingly realistic I
mean). I think if you don't include as much in the notes about it, but rather focus on
it being in the pub but not the showcase performance? This is after all a stage
performance so it's a totally valid interpretation.
Is circle guard just walk around? I have no idea, but to do backlock you have to be in an
outward facing ring so that's all I can think it means..
Let us know if there is anything we can do to help, it's looking really good, the only
thing I'd suggest is once you've made decisions on the above is cutting down the
info you're giving to reflect why we've made the suggestion.
Really hope you're ok, please please do let us know if you need any help.
Becky x
From: laura_marie_smyth(a)hotmail.com
To: team(a)towerravens.org.uk
Date: Mon, 22 Feb 2016 15:03:05 +0000
Subject: [Tower Ravens] Westerhope second draft
Thanks everyone for your comments so far. I've had another look at the write-up, made
some changes, and some new comments. See attached for the reviewed version as edited by
both me and Katherine.
Unfortunately this second look has made me notice a few new things:
1. Nikki this will affect you - unfortunately the music from Sword Dance Airs III was
actually chosen by Cecil Sharp, and they were not traditional to the dance. This means
that we can't use Thro the lang moor or Warkworth Castle. I'm so sorry Nikki for
not spotting this earlier. Please refer to the notes for alternatives.
2. The stepping - Please see notes on stepping in the write-up, and please see attachment
for Grenoside stepping notation. If anyone can make any sense of it, let me know. If
anything, it looks like they are double stepping...
3. I'm changing my mind about the Tommy and Betty issue. Please see write-up for
reasons.
And does anyone know what circle guard is???
I'm soooooooooooo knackered. I feel quite ill. If I come tonight, I think I will need
to leave early. I'll let you know.
Laura
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