hook: Constant partner eye contact, fluid phrasing
by: Maia McCormick
formation: Becket
| A1 | 8 | circle left 3 places
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| 8 | half poussette - gentlespoons pull partners back then left
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| A2 | 8 | mad robin, gentlespoons in front (around N)
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| 8 | gentlespoons start a hey - lefts in center, rights on ends - until partners meet the second time
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| B1 | 16 | partners meltdown swing
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| B2 | 8 | circle left 4 places
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| 4 | partners two-hand turn and open to face across
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| 4 | partners slide L along the set to meet new neighbors ⁋
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IGNORE THE A1 COUNTS AS LISTED HERE: timing in the A is mushy and moves bleed across phrases. Both the mad ladle and the poussette take about 6 counts, so the mad ladle starts a little before A2, and the 5/8 hey finishes just about at the end of the A2. Encourage dancers to follow the movement rather than trying to fit it into the music (i.e. DON'T do the English dance thing of trying to make the moves fill the phrase), and use B1 to get everyone back together.
This dance allows for almost constant eye contact with partner. (If you do the hey facing your P, you do in fact get basically constant eye contact, but please don't teach this, or you'll have everyone doing it and ppl will all run into each other. The sufficiently experienced dancers will figure it out on their own!) Inspired by Will Mentor's "Lavender Snow", premiered at LCFD Spring Dance Camp 2018. The two-hand turn in B2 was a later addition, suggested by Shoshana Silverman (fall 2022).