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Issue 944: Keith Rose Diagram

Object
Domino Five (Dance)
Submitter
Ian Russell (Pysifr)
Assigned to
Keith Rose
Priority
Normal
Disposition
Fixed
Description

Although it is described as a “square set”, the position of the dancers is not that of a “square set”. The top of the set is actually between dancers 1 and 4 (and this is the direction dancer 5 faces at the start). Dancers 1 and 2 are on the “women’s” side of the dance, and dancers 3 and 4 are on the men’s side of the dance, with numbering starting with 1 and moving clockwise. So, as presented, the diagrams are not in the correct orientation actually rotated about 90 degrees anti-clockwise - ie to be correct the diagrams need rotating 90 degrees clockwise. Then the reels of 3 will be “diagonal” as described in the words.
The other mistake in the crib diagram is the depiction of the direction of dancers 3, 4, and 5 for the LA (bars 5 - 8). The direction “faced” by the dancers is actually that for RA.

Previous Actions

  • Date  May 21, 2016, 3:41 p.m.
  • User  Ian Russell (Pysifr)

New issue submitted

  • Date  May 21, 2016, 9:08 p.m.
  • User  Anselm Lingnau (anselm)

Assigned changed to »keithrose« (previously »None«)

Actually the diagrams should (if anything) be rotated 45° clockwise, not 90°. I concur with the “noses” for bars 5–8.

There could be a lot of quibbling about what exactly is a “square set”. In the case of Domino Five, both Derek Haynes (the original author) and the Society (in the Second Book of Graded Dances) call the arrangement of dancers a “square formation”. At some point someone introduced the notion of a “diamond” (as opposed to “square”) set for dances like Domino Five, but the problem with this is that “diamond” doesn’t really describe the shape of this sort of set very well, either. We have decided to use the term “square” for all sets that have dancers in a squarish arrangement, including – apart from dances like Domino Five – the “normal” sort of square (as the Society would say, “as for the Eightsome Reel”), square sets with more than two dancers per side (think “Auchindoun Castle” or the Sixteensome Reel), and square sets with spare couples in the centre (think “Fisherman’s Reel” or “Twelvesome Reel”), and to get rid of “diamond” again.

  • Date  May 22, 2016, 6:10 p.m.
  • User  Keith Rose (keithrose)

Disposition changed to »Fixed« (previously »New«)

Diagram revised and uploaded. Thank you.