hook: Circle mixer.
by: Andrea Nettleton
formation: circle mixer
Stand in a circle with your partner, facing in. The one on the right, the gentlespoon, turn around to face out. Gentlespoon take left with current partner and right on the other side to a wavy line all around the ring.
| A1 | 8 | balance & Rory O'More right
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| 8 | balance & Rory O'More left
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| A2 | 16 | partners balance & swing (partner is in left hand after Rory O' Moore figure)
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| B1 | 16 | Gay gordons promenade; take promenade hands with the ladle on the right to start. [Walk counterclockwise] 1-2-3-stomp, [reverse backing up] back-2-3-turn, [walk clockwise]1-2-3-stomp, back [reverse backwards, ccw] two three turn.
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| B2 | 4 | partners balance keep promenade hands and balance here with the ladle facing in, gentlespoon facing out
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| 8 | partners gyre 1¼ [once around is until the ladle face out and gentlespoon in]
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| 8 | next neighbors allemande left once to form the wave. [next neighbor is inexact][is next partner] ⁋
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Have partners face. Gentlespoons are progressing counterclockwise, and ladles clockwise. This makes it nominally harder to teach than a dance where the next partner is also the neighbor.