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ins_cupids_garden [2014/07/15 21:48]
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ins_cupids_garden [2019/04/11 23:56]
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 +====== CUPID'​S GARDEN ======
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 +Square for 4 couples
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 <​code>​ <​code>​
-   ​CUPID'​S GARDEN 
-   ​Square for 4 couples 
         3         3
      ​2 ​    4      ​2 ​    4
         1          1 
-   Part I + 
-   ​A1        Bar 1        1s and 3s lead forward and meet, while sides+Part I 
 +A1        Bar 1        1s and 3s lead forward and meet, while sides
                    face and fall back 3 steps                    face and fall back 3 steps
             Bar 2        M1 leads W3 into 2nd place, while M3 leads W1             Bar 2        M1 leads W3 into 2nd place, while M3 leads W1
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            ​9-12 ​       As in B1 to places.</​code>​            ​9-12 ​       As in B1 to places.</​code>​
        
 +Recording: {{ ::​music:​cupids_garden-bnbc7-09.mp3.zip |}}
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 ===== Notes from Colin Hume: ===== ===== Notes from Colin Hume: =====
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       Cupid'​s Garden — Marjorie Heffer and William Porter, Maggot Pie, 1932</​code>​       Cupid'​s Garden — Marjorie Heffer and William Porter, Maggot Pie, 1932</​code>​
        
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 +Video: [[https://​www.youtube.com/​watch?​v=Yuj5Nj8-sfI]]
  
 Here's one of my favourite Maggot Pie dances. ​ They took an old tune and fitted a new dance to it brilliantly — without having any tradition of composing new dances to fall back on.  The tune is mainly in three-time, but it switches to four-time in the  Here's one of my favourite Maggot Pie dances. ​ They took an old tune and fitted a new dance to it brilliantly — without having any tradition of composing new dances to fall back on.  The tune is mainly in three-time, but it switches to four-time in the 
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 The third figure is just very disorienting,​ and it feels very odd to honour your partner whom you haven'​t seen for ages. The third figure is just very disorienting,​ and it feels very odd to honour your partner whom you haven'​t seen for ages.
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ins_cupids_garden.txt · Last modified: 2019/04/26 02:47 by mar4uscha