Što Mi E Milo - Harvey's SQQ version (Macedonia)

Što Mi E Milo (Harvey's SQQ version)

Що Ми Е Мило

(Macedonia)

These notes ©2014, Andrew Carnie.

This dance is a bit of a mystery to me. I haven't been able to find a printed source for this. We learned it from Harvey Gardner, who learned it in Santa Fe from Scott Lowry. It has the feel of a North American IFD choreography to it, but I have no clue if that's true. Generally speaking when I've danced in other places people simply do a Lesnoto to this music. There is an entirely different IFD dance choreographed to this same tune by Jim Gold.

The song Što Mi E Milo is also sometimes done in 9/8 time, to which there is a completely different dance. The notes for the 9/8 version are linked here. 

Music: 

• https://youtu.be/So1wWBc-ezU
• https://youtu.be/HTDa-gac_W0
• https://youtu.be/rjvSvGAsU7g

Meter: 7/8 SQQ

Formation: Open circle, hands in W position

Introduction: Wait 8 bars. The chorus, although it starts the dance is actually the second 1/2 of each musical motif. 

Part 1 "Chorus"

Bar 1: Facing center, step R to R (S). Cross L over R (QQ)
Bar 2: Step R to R (S), Step on L behind R (QQ)
Bar 3: Step on R to R (S), Lift L (QQ)
Bar 4: Step on L to L (S), Lift R (QQ)
Bars 5-8: repeat bars 1-4

Part 2

Bar 1: Rock onto R into the center (S), rock back in place on L (Q), step on R next to L (Q)
Bar 2: Repeat bar 1 with opposite footwork
Bar 3: Step on R to R (S), Lift L (QQ)
Bar 4: Step on L to L (S), Lift R (QQ)
Bars 5-8: repeat bars 1-4

Part 3: 

Bar 1: Turning body briefly to face R, Rock on R to R (S), Turning back to face center, rock back in place on L (Q), Rock on R into the center (Q)

Bar 2: Rock backwards on L in place (S), Rock forward on R into the center (Q), Rock back on L in place (Q)

Bar 3: Step on R to R (S), Lift L (QQ)

Bar 4: Step on L to L (S), Lift R (QQ)

Bars 5-8: repeat bars 1-4

Sequence

8 bars introduction; Part 1

Part 2 (Starting with "Lele varaj..."); Part 1

Part 3; Part 1

Part 2; Part 1

Part 3: Part 1

etc.

Video on the web:

Lyrics

from http://www.sacredcircles.com/THEDANCE/HTML/DANCEPAG/SHTOMI.HTM

Shto mi e milo, milo i drago
Vo Struga grada, mamo, djukjan da imam.

Lele varaj mome, mome Kalino,
Vo Struga grada, mamo, djukjan da imam

Koga po voda, voda mi odat,
So tia stomni, mamo, stomni shareni.

Lele varaj mome, mome Kalino,
So tia stomni, mamo, stomni shareni.

How I would like to have a shop

In the town of Struga 

Hurry, young Kalino 

To sit by the door 

And watch the young girls of Struga go by 

Hurry, young Kalino 

As they fetch water 

With their brightly colored jugs 

Hurry, young Kalino 

And meet with their friends at the well 

Hurry, young Kalino

Sheet Music

• http://www.travellersunion.org/music/stoMi.html

Other sources

• Ader, Andrea (n.d.) Pjevaj! Sing!. Sestre Productions.
• MITFDC song book

Also spelled: Shto, Sto