April 21st class
Beginners
We reviewed Rosin’s stamp and stamp step, heel and toe. If you would like these steps written out they are on the blog ‘April 7th Class Notes’. We also reviewed ‘The Johnny’ (toe toe heel and a 1 2 3). Please let me know if you don’t have notes for these steps. We also dance the first figure of the Connemara Set.
Intermediate
In the intermediate class we covered Clare battering. We danced 3 variations of the clare batter that can be used for dance at home, advance retire and house around.
The following steps are written for the woman, men dance the oposit using there left foot for the batters.
Clare Batter 1 (I got this step from the dancing of Alicia Guinn)
1(L) 2(R) down(L) heel(R) toe(R) heel(R) down(L)
down(L) heel(R) toe(R) heel(R) down(L)
Clare Batter 2
And(L) a(R) 1(R) down(L) heel(R) toe(R) heel(R) down(L)
down(L) heel(R) toe(R) heel(R) down(L)
Clare Batter 3 (I got this step from the dancing of Alicia Guinn)
down(L) heel(R) toe(R) heel(R)
down(L) heel(R) toe(R) heel(R) down(L)
down(L) heel(R) toe(R) heel(R) down(L)
