I'm actually more astounded by the fact that I nearly got all these in the right order, than the fact that I got them nearly all right. I can't believe I've remembered everything. I'm clearly meant to do this exam. If I wasn't, and if I didn't genuinely love and care about dancing, I would never have remembered 30 fiddly ceilis. No pun intended. It's given me a right little lift, this has.
Firstly I got Gates and Rakes the wrong way round but then you're not tested on book order so who cares? And my one mistake was in Gates itself, calling Right and Left Wheels 'Right Hands Across' by mistake. But that was it. It's actually pointless me having posted three separate book updates, or posting at all - I thought I'd have so much to correct, so many mistakes. Wow. Wow wow wow.
BUT let's not get carried away; I do need to know how to actually perform/teach the movements as well as just the names of things. So to revise:
10) Fairy Reel - everything after the second rings, just to be sure
11) Duke Reel - quick refresh throughout
12) Lannigan's Ball - double check on all terminology and positioning
13) Gates of Derry - need to actually sort out the issue of repeats which I have completely ignored up until now but is being discussed on the TCRG Voy.
14) Bonfire Dance - just the Rose, just to be sure.
Happy Friday :)
Showing posts with label The Fairy Reel. Show all posts
Showing posts with label The Fairy Reel. Show all posts
Friday, 22 July 2011
Thursday, 13 May 2010
The Fairy Reel
In this video you have to skip it to 1.05 before The Fairy Reel starts. Cool costumes :)
Advance and Retire - Rings - Advance and Retire - Rings - Slip Sides - Gents Centre and Link Arms - Square - Arches - Advance and Retire.
When reading it I made a couple of slight errors - first of all I just didn't get what the book was telling me for Gents Centre and Link Arms - it looks as if he links arms with the left lady (it says "whom he turns with left arm"), and then for some reason I was assuming he chains to left lady twice but the video doesn't do that and the book seems to be saying he doesn't. So well done video! I also assumed that the gent would make the left-arm arch twice in Arches, but my brain was just filling in the gaps. It's right arm arch twice but only once with the left.
Costumes are SUCH a help to keep track of everyone, especially when they're doing Slip Sides and Square.
Advance and Retire - Rings - Advance and Retire - Rings - Slip Sides - Gents Centre and Link Arms - Square - Arches - Advance and Retire.
When reading it I made a couple of slight errors - first of all I just didn't get what the book was telling me for Gents Centre and Link Arms - it looks as if he links arms with the left lady (it says "whom he turns with left arm"), and then for some reason I was assuming he chains to left lady twice but the video doesn't do that and the book seems to be saying he doesn't. So well done video! I also assumed that the gent would make the left-arm arch twice in Arches, but my brain was just filling in the gaps. It's right arm arch twice but only once with the left.
Costumes are SUCH a help to keep track of everyone, especially when they're doing Slip Sides and Square.
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