Maybe You Should Write An Easy Dance

hook: Not as difficult as the name suggests

formation: Becket

Note the couple on the left diagonal as next neighbors. gentlespoons note home side.

A1	8	partners promenade and J-hook left to face next neighbors ⁋
	4	long lines forward
	4	gentlespoons roll away partners with a half sashay on the way back - look away to shadows
A2	8	circle left 3 places with Shadow and Neighbor (and Shadow's Neighbor)
	8	neighbors swing on gentlespoon's home side
B1	8	ladles chain to shadows
	8	ladles start a half hey - rights in center, lefts on ends and look away to partners
B2	16	partners balance & swing (balance optional, if timing permits)

Teaching note: B1 really takes 18-20 counts, so tell dancers they will have time in B2 for either a 12 count swing or a balance and short swing.

End Effects (negotiable by experienced dancers without coaching)

Couples out at end during partner swing, do the same and face in as if for an improper dance.
Otherwise, when out at end with either shadow or partner, face back into the set with the ~~gent~~ on the right.

Historical notes:

Named after Kathy Anderson's suggestion to me, after I tested this at her callers' workshop during Winter Dance Week, 1991, at the John C. Campbell School in Brasstown NC. First called on Sunday February 16, 1992 to an unsuspecting group of very experienced dancers during Knoxville's annual dance weekend.
Having mentally tagged this dance as difficult, it remained unused until August 2012, when reviewing my dances, this one now appeared quite straightforward for experienced dancers. So I called it without difficulty at the Sugar Hill dance weekend outside of Bloomington IN later that month. (Due to all the new choreography since 2000 or so, dances once considered difficult had since become straightforward for more experienced dancers)

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