Issue 2853: Suggested addition to "Extra Info" tab for Craigievar Magic

Object

Craigievar Magic (Dance)

Submitter

Anthea Macdonald (dancefilly)

Assigned to

Murrough Landon

Priority

Normal

Disposition

Fixed

Description

I might suggest adding the following text (below the dashed line) to the “Extra Info” tab for Craigievar Magic. The existing cribs (and even the original notes) don’t give a sense of the very interesting nature of this dance, i.e. that after four repetitions, everyone is (very unexpectedly) back where they started. Without a clarification like this, it might seem that this is just a run-of-the-mill round-the-room dance, whereas it’s actually an amazing unique progression that dancers (and devisers) can learn from.

Feel free to edit this as you see fit, but I feel it’s worthwhile to point out the surprising uniqueness of this dance.

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The original notes to this dance contain the following notations at the bottom:

Repeat 3 more times (Hoping the magic works) P.S. If one person goes wrong, the magic doesn’t work!!

The “magic” Bill Forbes is talking about is that the progression of the dance over four repetitions is somewhat miraculous. The first repetition takes everyone away from their original partner and set, and further repetitions seem to irretrievably scramble things. But, astoundingly, after four repetitions, everyone is back with their original partner in their original set (!). And it works regardless of how many sets are on the floor. Truly amazing when it works. But as pointed out in the notes, if any one person goes wrong, especially early on, it messes up the progression for almost everyone.

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