hook: poussettes to mad robins
by: Cary Ravitz
formation: Becket
| A1 | 8 | circle left 3 places
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| 8 | neighbors swing
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| A2 | 4 | circle left 2 places
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| 6 | mad robin, gentlespoons in front
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| 6 | half poussette - ladles pull partners back then left ⁋
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| B1 | 6 | half poussette - gentlespoons pull partners back then right around new neighbors
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| 6 | mad robin, gentlespoons in front and left of this neighbor
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| 4 | gentlespoons pass by right shoulders
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| B2 | 16 | partners balance & swing
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Cary Ravitz notes: Re-enter the dance with ladles on the left.
The original version of this dance reversed the mad robin and 1/2 poussette in B1 - with new neighbors, ladles step forward and left to start a mad robin (6), (with these neighbors) gentlespoons pull partners to start a 1/2 poussette (6), gentlespoons pass right (4). This works well, but I prefer it as noted here.
Songbird was written for Janet Bertog, who asked for a different setting of the mad robin / 1/2 poussette / mad robin / 1/2 poussette sequence from Rough Ride by Tom Hinds.
original at http://www.dance.ravitz.us/#sb2