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sinni-ok-sessi · 2 days ago

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feeling some kind of way about the fact that when I finally went to look up what sort of dance 'the lancers' is (in reference to the Terra Nova lot dancing it at midwinter), *those are figures I recognise*. that's a grand chain, that's a promenade, that's a right hands across, etc. it's a square dance, not a scottish one, so there are some parts that I would call Odd in scottish, but we definitely have weirder dances

god, does this obsession run far enough to me convincing the reel club to learn a dance that is Quite long and Not that exciting, just for me to get a vicarious historical kick out of it?

either way, I am delighted to imagine this in the confines of the cape evans hut, and I am especially delighted because the modern video I watched was Very 'thou shalt dance in m/f pairs' and that was certainly not the case at midwinter

#(for some reason - the name and maybe the fact that it's usually Oates who gets named in this anecdote - I had assumed it was some sort of #military-style thing? idek. but hence my surprise at its familiarity)#somewhat amused by the wikipedia article making a big deal of how the figures get harder and need more precise timing #as they progress and I'm looking at it like ??? this is literally fine #tell me you've never seen a foss and/or drewry-written dance without telling me etc #(every year or so we try the celtic brooch (another dance where the figures get progressively more complicated) and every year even our #competition-level dancers stall out about halfway)#(we had to run belhaven at half speed for *weeks* until we could dance it without crashing)#(pedant's note that obviously foss and drewry had not written their dances in 1911 but they had by the time of the wiki article!!)

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