17 Jan
2016
17 Jan
'16
9:06 p.m.
Hello all,
Just letting everyone
know what the plans are for the trad dance. If you don't want to know
about my thought process, then ignore the first part and go to part
B.
PART A
The possible figures
listed for Westerhope are:
Single guard
Jigging guard
Tipping guard
Fourth corner
Chain
Back over knot (back
lock)
Cramper
Double cramper
Curly
Right and left (curlys
with figure of 8)
Fast knot (curlys and
fig. 8 and wrong side curly)
Gymnac (fourth corner
with a double tumble)
Crown (everyone tumbles
one after the other)
Traditionally, the
Westerhope team used to dance 8 figures with a single guard and lock
in-between each figure. Or, for stage performances, they would drop
the single-guard chorus (because it would take so long) and just do
more figures.
Realistically, we won't
be doing figures with a double tumble or 5 person tumble.
There's lots of curly
type figures, and two crampers.
If we aim to do all
figures which are not curlys or crampers, and then have one curly
figure and one cramper., this would equal only 8 figures. So we
should probably add another to make it more than the minimum 8.
The dance requires that
a 6th person joins for the last 3 figures. The only figures that work
with 6 people are:
Single guard
A curly figure
Jigging guard
Back lock
Perhaps a cramper
figure? And I wouldn't want to try a 4 person chain...
This explains Sinead's
choice for the last 3 figures, and perhaps best to keep it the same.
PART B
So, my thoughts for the
Westerhope dance structure is:
From a line
1. Single-guard
2. Curly (or Right &
Left)
3. Fourth corner
4. Double cramper
5. Chain
6. Tipping guard
6th person join on:
7. Fast knot (or Right &
Left)
8. Jigging guard
9. Back lock
Display and finish in a
line
I suppose it doesn't
matter too much what order the figures are, but I was trying to
spread out the curlys and crampers because they look similar. If
anyone has any other preferences then let me know. Thanks,
Laura
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