Washington Quickstep (England)

Washington Quickstep

England/USA

These notes ©2017, Andrew Carnie. We learned the dance from Stuart Moody.

Music: Any good English/Contra Jig or Reel
Formation: Duple Improper contra lines
Introduction: depends upon recording used.

A1: R hand Star (8), L hand Star (8)
A2: 1s down the center, turn alone (8) and come back, cast off (8)
B1: Ladies Chain  (8) and Back (8) [or R & L through and Back]
B2: Long lines go forward and back (8); 1s swing in new position, end facing down (8)

Other instructions on the web

• http://www.cdss.org/cracking-chestnuts-collection/toc/washington-quickstep
• http://barndancecaller.net/dancecards/Washington%20Quickstep.html

Other videos on the web

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Picking Up Sticks (England)

Picking Up Sticks

England

These notes ©2016, Andrew Carnie. A Playford dance from the 17th century.

Music:

• https://youtu.be/roL7sVl8q4o
• Folkraft 1410
• EFDSS PLA3
• Columbia 5505
• CDS Popular English Country  Dances fo the 17th and 18th Centuries

Meter: 6/8
Formation: Set of three couples, proper contra
Introduction: Depends upon recording, but is often a chord to acknowledge partner.

Forward a double footwork: Step R (1), L (2), R (1), L (&), R (2) (and reverse with opposite footwork)

Part 1 Forward a double and back

Bars 1-2: Everyone face top of set, and take R hand in R hand, moving up the set everyone dance forward a double (R, L, R-L-R)
Bars 3-4: Backing down the set repeat  bars 1-2 with opposite footwork.
Bars 5-8: repeat bars 1-4

Part 2: Exchanges

Bars 1-2: face partner across the set. With 4 running steps, M1 exchanges place with W2.
Bars 3-4: WIth 4 more running steps. M1 exchanges place with M3
Bars 5-8: taking R hands with opposite person, repeat bars 1-4 of part 1
Bars 9-12: W1 repeats bars 1-4 of part 2, exchanging places with M2 and W3
Bars 13-16: repeat bars 5-8
Bars 17-24: repeat bars 1-8 with M2 starting the sequence.
Bars 25-32:  repeat bars 9-16 with W2 starting the sequence
Bars 33-48: repeat bars 10-16 with M3, then W3 starting the sequence

Part 3 Siding

Bars 1-2: using forward and back a double footwork, exchange places with partner, passing L shoulder and turning a 1/2 CCW to end facing in on opposite side.
Bars 3-4: repeat bars 1-2 with opposite footwork passing R shoulders
Bars 5-8: repeat bars 1-4

Part 4: Slipping 

Couples 1 & 2
Bars 1-2: using 4 slip step Couple 1 take both hands and slide down to 2nd position, while C2 using slip steps dance up into 1st position on the outside.
Bars 3-4: repeat bars 1-2, with couple 2 sliding down and C1 sliding up the outside
Bars 5-8: repeat bars 1-4

Couple 3:
Bars 1-8 using skipping steps, cross over with partner passing R shoulder, dance up around sliding couples. Cross over at the top again, passing R shoulders again, then down the outside back to place

Bars 9-16: repeat bars 1-8, except with Couple 1 crossing over and down the outside, while C3 take hands and slide up, while couple 2, slides down the outside to start.

Part 5: Arming

Bars 1-4: Link R elbow with partner and turn all the way around with 8 steps
Bars 5-8: Link L elbow with partner and turn all the way around with 8 steps.

Part 6: Sheepskin Hey

Bars 1-8: all three men form single file, and dance up to weave through the women. M1 and M2, weave behind W1, in front of W2, and behind W3. M3 does something different, he weaves behind W1, in front of W2, but instead of going behind W3, he loops around W2, so that he ends up at the head of the line.
Bars 9-16: M3 and M1, dance behind W2, in front of W1, then loop around her. M2 skips dancing around 1, and loops around W2 instead. He's now in the lead, but heads down
Bars 17-24: M2 and M3 weave in front of W2 and in behind W3. M1 dances around W2 to be in the lead.
Bars 25-32: M leads line around W1, then down the back, and up their own side back to place
Bars 33-64: repeat bars 1-32, But with women chasing and weaving around the men.

Bow to partner on final chord

Other Notes on the web

• (1972) Camp Hess Kramer 
• Page 12 of Stockton Folk Dance Camp Syllabus (1948)
• Page 46 of Stockton Folk Dance Camp Syllabus (1957)
• Page 15 of Wolff et al (1968) 11th Folklore Village Christmas
• Page 73 of Santa Barbara Folk Dance Conference (1958)
• (1993) Let's Dance Magazine

Bill and Karen Faust's Fayetteville Video

Other Videos on the Web

Sheet Music

• Sharp, Cecil Country Dance Tunes. Set 7
• Barnes, Peter. English Country Dance Tunes
• EFDSS "Community Dance Manual" 5

Other Sources

• Sharp, Cecil J (1926) The Country Dance Book, Part 4. Novello & Company
• Lidster and  Tamurini (1965) Folk Dance Progressions
• Geisler (1999) Village Music Around the world: Dance Syllabi
• Herman (1953) Folk Dance Syllabus no 1.
• Van Winkle Keller and Genevieve Shimer (1990) English Country Dances
• The English Dancing Master

Also called: Picking of sticks

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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.

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Walpole Cottage (England)

Walpole Cottage

England

These notes ©2016, Andrew Carnie. Originally choreographed in 1963 by Pat Shaw in honor of Grace Duff Meikle and Leonie Morris, whose home in Chipstead Surrey was called Walpole Cottage.

Music:

• EP116
• Hold the Mustard. English Country Dance Favorites
• Assembly Players. Walpole Cottage
• English Folk Dance and Song Society. Welcome to the Dance
• Ring O' Bells Band: English Country Dance Prty
• The Falconers. Community Dances Manual
• http://www.nicolasbroadbridge.com/Walpole_Cottage.html
• https://store.cdss.org/product/308-walpole-cottage-tunes-and-dances-by-pat-shaw

Meter: 2/4
Formation:  Sicilian Circle with trios of people facing another trio, in spokes of a wheel around the room.

O = Outside (Furthest from center in the trio), I = Inside (closest to center), M = middle person in the trio. Not necessarily a M, although traditional it was.

                     O2  >   <  O1 

                     M2  >   <  M1

                     I2  >   <  I1

O1  M1  I1                                I2   M2   O2

v   v   v         center of the room       v    v    v

ʌ   ʌ   ʌ                                  ʌ    ʌ    ʌ

O2  M2  I2           I1 >   < I2           I1   M1   O1  
                     M1 >   < M2

                     O1 >   < O2
Introduction: 2 beats, no action

Part 1 Greeting (done each time through the dance)

Bars 1-4: Advance and Retire in lines of three facing the other trio.

Part 2: Contra Corners (A Music)

Bars 1-2: M1 and M2, turn each other by the R,
Bars 3-4: Then turn 1st corners, by the L  (M1 turns O2, M2 turns I1)
Bars 5-8: M1 and M2 turn each other by the R, and then turn 2nd corner's by the L (M1 turns I2, and M2 turns O1)
Bars 9-12: M1 and M2 turn each other by the R, and then turn own left hand partner by the L (M1 turns I1, M2 turns O2)
Bars 13-16:: M1 and M2 turn each other by the R, and then turn own right hand partner by the L (M1 turns O1, M2 turns I2)

Part 3: Hands across and Reel for 3 (B Music)

Bars 1-4: O1, O2, I1, I2, do a R hands across (R hand star), 1/2 way. Middles step out of the way.
Bars 5-8: same 4 do a L hands across (L hand star), 1/2 way
Bars 9-16: Do a R shoulder reel (hay) for 3 with own trio. M passes R shoulder with own right hand partner

Part 4: Forward and Back, Circle, Baskets (C Music)

Bars 1-4: Advance and Retire facing opposite Trio
Bars 5-8: Circle 6 1/2 across
Bars 9-12: Advance and Retire facing opposite Trio
Bars 13-16: With own trio, get into a back basket in a tight mini-circle and using a buzz step, swing around. Open up facing original direction and facing a new trio.  (If you like you can open with a new center so as to give some variety to who gets to do the contra corners)

Other Notes on the web

• http://tunearch.org/wiki/Annotation:Walpole_Cottage
• http://www.bacds.org/events/playfordball2000/dances/dancelist.html#Walpole
• http://www.folkdance.com/LDNotations/WalpoleCottage1975LD.pdf
• http://www.patshaw.info/dances/#walpole

Bill and Karen Faust's Fayetteville Video

Important note. For some reason, the recording used in this video lacks the 4 bar introduction the first time through and appends it to the end. So the dancers are 4 bars off the ABC structure of the music (i.e the musical phrasing doesn't align with the dance phrasing that I've listed above). Some of the other videos below have the dance and musical phrasing correctly lined up. 

Other Videos on the web

• http://argonneifd.blogspot.com/2015/09/oconomowoc-video-clips-walpole-cottage.html

Sheet Music

• Page, Ralph (1971) Northern Junket, vol. 10, No. 7, March 1971; p. 2

Other Sources

• Shaw, Pat and Marjorie Fennessy (1986b) The Pat Shaw Collection Vol 3 - Dances. KAAP press
• Barclay, Les and Ian Jones (2015) Community Dances Manual. Revised Edition. English Folk Dance and Song Society.
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Margaret's Waltz (England)

Margaret's Waltz 

England

These notes ©2016, Andrew Carnie. Choreographed by Pat Shaw.

Music: Any nice English waltz will work, but Pat Shaw did write a tune specifically for this dance.
Meter: 3/4
Formation: Sicilian Circle (Couple facing couple in a circle around the room; W is on M's R)
Introduction: Depends upon the recording, but typically a chord, where you bow to your partner.

Bars 1-2: Every one start R throughout. Holding nearer hands with partner. Take two waltz steps forward towards opposite.
Bars 3-4: Take two waltz steps retiring away from opposite
Bars 5-8: Allemand R with opposite
Bars 9-12: Allemand L with partner
Bars 13-16: Ladies 1/2 chain (Ladies give R hands to each other crossing over. Do a courtesy turn with opposite M)
Pars 17-18: As couples advance to the R diagonal to end L shoulder with other couple, stepping R (1) close L (2,3), then R (1), touch L next to R (2,3)
Bars 19-20: As couples advance two waltz steps to the diagonal L to end back to back with other couple, stepping L (1) close R (2,3), then L (1), touch R next to L (2,3)
Bars 21-24: Drop hands and pull R shoulder back to face other couple. Do a R hand star (aka R hands across) 3/4 of the way around to end in original position, with 4 waltz steps
Bars 25-28: Dosido opposite with 4 waltz steps
Bars 29-32: In ballroom position, waltz partner around in a CCW circle exchanging places with opposite couple. Open up to face new couple.

repeat the dance progressing with partner around the room to a new couple each time.

Other notes on the web

• http://www.patshaw.info/dances/#margaret
• http://www.folkdance.com/LDNotations/MargaretsWaltz1966LD.pdf
• http://www.patshaw.info/Dance%20Notations/Margaret's%20Waltz.pdf
• Page 28 of (1965) Stockton Folk Dance Syllabus
• Page 99 of (1966) Stockton Folk Dance Syllabus
• Page 67 of (2011) Stockton Folk Dance Syllabus

Bill and Karen Faust's Fayetteville Video

Other videos on the web

Sheet Music:

• http://www.blackflute.com/music/tunes/waltzes/margwalz.html
• https://thesession.org/tunes/1678
• http://www.traditionalmusic.co.uk/american-mandolin-tab/margarets_waltz.htm
• http://www.traditionalmusic.co.uk/old-time-music/006557.HTM
• http://tippleflutes.com/tunebook-with-sheet-music-and-mp3-audio/
• http://100fiddletunes.com/margarets-waltz
• Pixton, Tom (n.d.) The Pinewoods collection

Other sources

• Barclay, Les and Ian Jones (2015) Community Dances Manual. Revised Edition. English Folk Dance and Song Society. 
• Shaw Pat (1986a) The Pat Shaw Collection Book 2, Kaap Press 

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