Dance Mille Querce 21921
Reel · 32 bars · 5 persons · Square (Progression: 51423)
- Devised by
- Murrough Landon (2024)
- Intensity
- 88888/44448/44448/68666 = 75% (whole dance)
- Formations
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- Set as in Double.Triangles (SET_DT)
- Reel of three - diagonal - half (REEL;DIAG;HALF;R3;)
- Pushme-Pullyou Reel (REEL;PUSHPULL;)
- Hands across - 3 - half (HX;3P;HALF;)
- Note: This list may be incomplete and/or incorrect.
- Steps
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- Pas-de-Basque, Skip-Change
- Online Sources
- Extra Info
- This dance is for Robb Quint who sends out a colourful daily “SCD-SoCal” email on matters related to Scottish Country …
This dance is for Robb Quint who sends out a colourful daily “SCD-SoCal” email on matters related to Scottish Country Dancing or with some, perhaps tenuous, link to Scotland: its art, geography or history. These mails have a wide international following in addition to his local dancers in Southern California.
Robb lives in Thousand Oaks, west of Los Angeles, and is a keen linguist. So the SCD-SoCal-mails are often peppered with quotes in a variety of languages. The “Mille Querce” title of this dance is Italian for “Thousand Oaks”. It may look a little like Quirky Mails but is pronounced “Meel-Lay Kwair-Chay”. The five person square set was chosen as “Quint” is reminiscent of “five” in Latin languages. It also allows the M shaped setting figure which represents 1,000 in Roman numerals. The highland arms are here symbolising oak trees with acorns and branches rather than traditional deer eyes and antlers. The chase with one pair in promenade hold might suggest a rotating letter Q.
Mille Querce 5pS · R32
Dancers 1–4 at the corners of a square with 5 in the centre facing up to 4 & 1.
4 1
5
3 2
- 1–
- 5 sets as in DTr with 1 & 4 who join NH with 2 & 3 on sides to make M shape | 5 sets turning to face down while{4} cnrs set with arms raised ; repeat [1-4]
- 9–
- 1+5+3 ½ Reel3, 5 starts RSh to 1 ; 4+5+2 repeat, 5 faces 1 who is in 3pl
- 17–
- 1+5+3 ½ Push-me Pull-you Reel3: 5 dances track of ½ Reel3 while{4} cnrs dance BtoB ; 4+5+2 repeat, 5 ends taking 2 in promhold (in 4pl, 5 outside, 2 on the R)
- 25–
- All chase ½ way clw, 5 ends in centre ; 5+1+2 ⅓ RHA, 2 ends in centre | 2+4+3 ⅓ LHA, 3 ends in centre facing up (5,1,4,2,3)
Watch on YouTube
(YouTube must be enabled in cookie preferences to embed videos.)London Gay Gordons and friends, 2024.
Added on: 2024-03-17 (Murrough Landon)
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