I'm such a geek.

[marcmagus]

Someone just posted to a mailing list I read and signed off with the following:

"-she who is still learning the SuperFRED waltz! One, two, three AND one, two, three AND one... "

How bad is it that my first thought was, "Interesting waltz. Four steps per measure, stress in an unusual place."?

Something about it makes me think the dance would have a kind of pushing into the floor movement.

Comments

[shield-toad111.livejournal.com]

Could it be a Sauteuse? I think that would work if you took the incredibly stressed AND as a reminder to rest before the next leap.

The pushing into the floor idea is highly amusing though. Especially as I in my just having awoken state took it as a push with the hands, since otherwise you would never switch feet.

[marcmagus]

*laugh* I meant feet...as a style point. You could switch feet depending on what you were doing with them--a hop lets you switch feet with an even number of movements.

If I recall correctly, Sauteuse is "ONE and two, ONE and two..." or, if you wanted to put in an emphasis like you're talking about, "One and TWO, one and TWO..." or "One and two AND one and two AND..." (or, arguably, "One, two, three, FOUR, one, two, three, FOUR...").

[shield-toad111.livejournal.com]

True. I couldn't think of things as complex as hopping upon first waking up. Or at least not while simultaneously wondering if I could get away with going back to sleep for a few minutes.


I think the "One, two, three, FOUR" version is the closest to "one, two, three, AND". The AND is kind of like a preparatory thing to get you ready to do it all again and again AND again AND again. (I could go on. But I won't.)

[marcmagus]

Closest, yes, but also completely different. It's a different meter.

[shield-toad111.livejournal.com]

Well, it is if you're in 3/4. But I wasn't willing to consider that as a possibility, because it didn't make sense.

[marcmagus]

All the textual clues available suggest 3/4.

[mneme]

I'd expect it to be a polka-like thing -- with a hop on the 'and' (like in a chassé) right before the down beat.