Скачать или смотреть Will Mentor ● Riptide ● Glen Echo ● 2016-10-23

10/23/2016: Will Mentor calls while "Riptide" plays at Glen Echo's Spanish Ballroom.

BAND: Riptide (http://riptidedanceband.com/)
● Alden Robinson (fiddle)
● Owen Marshall (guitar, octave mandolin, and harmonium) (http://www.owenmarshallmusic.com/)
● Glen Loper (mandolin, banjo, and percussion) (http://glenloper.com/)

Riptide, one of the most energetic contra dance bands on the scene today, plays traditional music for contra dances. Their repertoire contains literally hundreds of tunes from New England, Quebec, Ireland, Appalachia, and a few other places. Riptide is based in Maine but travels throughout the U.S. and beyond.

TUNES:
(0:00 - 4:08) "Yellow Barber" (trad) (AKA “Arthur Berry”)
........https://thesession.org/tunes/8771)
(4:08 - END) “Hunting The Buffalo” (trad)
........ http://abcnotation.com/tunePage?a=the...

DANCE: “Alternating Corners” (variant) (Jim Kitch, duple minor improper)
A1 – Circle Left & Swing neighbor
A2 – Long lines Forward & Back, 1's 1/2 Figure 8 up through 2’s
B1 – 1’s Contra Corners
B2 – 1’s Balance & Swing; face down
A1 – Circle Left & Swing neighbor
A2 – Long lines Forward & Back, 2's 1/2 Figure 8 down through 1’s (All are crossed over)
B1 – 2’s Contra Corners
B2 – 2’s Balance & Swing; face up

NOTE: This is a variant: Will called A1s as Balance & Swing vs. Circle and Swing

Note – Published in:
● “To Live Is To Dance” p7, by Jim Kitch
● www.library.unh.edu/special/forms/rpdlw/syllabus1997.pdf

CAMERA: Canon S120, 1280x720, 30 FPS

REMARKS: The Spanish Ballroom is a superb dance venue. Built in 1933 and restored in 2003, the art deco style ballroom has a wonderful 7,700 SF sprung maple floor which can easily handle 6 lines of contradancers.

This was the last contra of the first half. There were X lines of dancers before the break and X lines after.

INFO: For more info about Glen Echo Contras, see:
● http://fridaynightdance.org/
● http://fsgw.org/

IF YOU LIKE THIS VIDEO, YOU’LL LIKE THESE LINKS!
More Glen Echo contradance videos:
●    / greatcontravideos  
Contradance advanced moves:
●    / contrasyncretist  

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