Heart Like A Fire - Viudas de vivos e mortos (England/USA)

Viudas de vivos e Mortos

Heart like a fire

Spain/England/USA

These notes ©2016, Andrew Carnie.

Poem by RosalIa de Castro. Song by Amando Prada. Transcript of Gallego by Lourdes Iglesias from Galicia. The dance was choreographed by Stefan Freedma

Music: Amando Prada; Iste Vaise - Fuxan os Ventos
Meter: 2/4
Formation: Closed Circle, hands down in V position.
Introduction: Start with singing

Bar 1: facing LOD, step on R forward in LOD (1). Touch L next to R (2)
Bar 2: Turning to face center, step on L to L (1), Touch R next to L (2)
Bar 3: Step on R backward out of center (1), Touch L next to R (2)
Bar 4: Step L forward into the center (1). Touch R next to L (2)
Bar 5: Step R forward into center, arms come up to W position (1). Touch L next to R (2)
Bar 6: Step on L backwards out of center, arms lower to V position (1), Touch R next to L (2)
Bar 7-8: Step R (1), L (2), R (1), touch L (2)  into the center, arms circle up and towards body (like in An Dro)
Bar 9: repeat bar 6
Bar 10: repeat bar 5
Bars 11-12: repeat bars 7-8 with opposite footwork, and backing up away from center. Arms reverse the "9" (up, forward and down to V position), except on last count of bar 12, step on R to R.
Bars 13-14: Do a 4 step (L, R, L, R) 3/4 CCW turn in place, moving slightly to the L, end facing LOD
Bar 15: Step L (1), R (2) backing up in RLOD
Bar 16: Step back in LOD on L (1), brush R foot forward (2)

Repeat dance from the beginning

Tucson Video

We took this the first night we learned it, so it's a bit rough!

Sheet music:

• http://livingcircle.net/Dance/Music%20Notation/heartlikeafiremu.html

Lyrics

http://livingcircle.net/Resources/Heart_like_a_Fire_-_Am.pdf

Iste vaise e aquel vaise

e todos todos se van.
Galicia sin homes queda

que te - poidan traballar.

Tes en cambio orfos e orfas

tes campos de soledad,

tes maes que non teñien fillos

e fillos que non ten pai.

E tes cor - azóns que sofren

longas ausencias mortais,

viúdas de vivos e mortos

que viven con soledad.

Widows of the alive and dead.
One goes and the other one goes and all, all of them go.
Galida stays without men that can work the land.
Instead you have orphans, instead you have lonely fields, you have mothers that do not have children and children that do not have a father.
And you have hearts that suffer long fatal absences,
widows of the alive and dead that live in longing.