by: Cary Ravitz
formation: Becket
| A1 | 4 | slice left
|
| 4 | gentlespoons roll away partners with a half sashay on the way back
| |
| 8 | circle right 3 places
| |
| A2 | 6 | mad robin, ladles in front (eyes on partner)
|
| 4 | ladles trade by the right shoulder and back up into place WHILE the gentlespoons prep to reverse direction
| |
| 6 | mad robin, gentlespoons in front (eyes on neighbor; gentlespoons move fwd & right; ladles back & left)
| |
| B1 | 2 | gentlespoons pass by left shoulders
|
| 14 | neighbors swing
| |
| B2 | 8 | gentlespoons allemande left 1½
|
| 8 | partners swing ⁋
|
A2: emphasize that the gentlespoons finish the first mad ladle moving left and back, sink back while the ladles trade, then gentlespoons move forward and right to retrace their steps for the mad ladle in the other direction. If they don't take those beats to prep and consciously reverse direction, then the gentlespoons are just sort of standing there without any momentum and it's tricky to get the next mad ladle to go the right way.