QotD
"It occurs to me that while the Mock Turtle instructs that one
should 'throw the [lobsters] as far out to sea as you can,' it is
probably best not to take this instruction overly literally. It would
not do to toss one's lobster in such a way that its limbs flail about
ungracefully through the air, as might occur should one be
over-exuberant. Further, it is easy to misjudge from land how much
ocean one can cover in four bars of music, and it would be quite rude
to one's lobster to throw it so far that one cannot reach it within
the allotted music. I thus recommend that dancers new to this
quadrille err on the side of caution when executing this figure."
-- Marc Hartstein, commenting on a
reconstruction of the steps of the Lobster Quadrille by
Susan de Guardiola, 2008-04-01
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