It's lovely that your club created these videos. I'd like to offer a little feedback. "Show the lady" means one couple housing inside the set for 8 bars. The usual term for the first move in this set is "Hook and house." In Fig. 3 the "Swing four twice" (a.k.a. Double Little Christmas) is shown with a basket hold but is usually danced with a wrist hold behind the back.
+S Harrison, thank you for feedback. Our vision of "Show the lady" is based upon "Toss the feathers" by Murphy and our dancing experience at Willie Clancy at Miltown. About "Swing four" - yes, we know that, you're right, more frequently it is danced with wrist hold behind the back.
Maybe using the term "Show the lady" is a regional variation. FWIW, in Toss the Feathers, Pat Murphy writes the first movement as "Top couples dance two bars in place then dance around." In various places people do that or they add the hook or they do a full 8-bar house without anything special in the first 2 bars. Now that we've had this discussion publicly, people will be prepared for these regional variations. :)
I learned the ballivourney jig set when I was in Belfast (but i'm not Irish, i'm Belgian). And our teacher taught us "show the lady" by dancing the two first bars on the spot. But he also taught us "show the lady" in the kerry set, 2nd figure, when the couples take turns to house within the set :)
It's lovely that your club created these videos. I'd like to offer a little feedback.
"Show the lady" means one couple housing inside the set for 8 bars. The usual term for the first move in this set is "Hook and house."
In Fig. 3 the "Swing four twice" (a.k.a. Double Little Christmas) is shown with a basket hold but is usually danced with a wrist hold behind the back.
+S Harrison, thank you for feedback. Our vision of "Show the lady" is based upon "Toss the feathers" by Murphy and our dancing experience at Willie Clancy at Miltown.
About "Swing four" - yes, we know that, you're right, more frequently it is danced with wrist hold behind the back.
Maybe using the term "Show the lady" is a regional variation. FWIW, in Toss the Feathers, Pat Murphy writes the first movement as "Top couples dance two bars in place then dance around." In various places people do that or they add the hook or they do a full 8-bar house without anything special in the first 2 bars. Now that we've had this discussion publicly, people will be prepared for these regional variations. :)
I learned the ballivourney jig set when I was in Belfast (but i'm not Irish, i'm Belgian). And our teacher taught us "show the lady" by dancing the two first bars on the spot. But he also taught us "show the lady" in the kerry set, 2nd figure, when the couples take turns to house within the set :)