user: Moose Flores
Farandole - Traditional
Four Around Four by unknown
Houlton Exchange by Lisa Heywood
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Country Bumpkin by Michael Barraclough
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by: Traditional
Farandole - Traditional
introduces moves: custom
formation: Circle
May start with sending the Wave around the circle, toe tapping, arm swinging. Then LLFB & circle left. The leader breaks the circle into a chain.
| A1 | 8 | arms up, LLFB
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| 8 | Circle left
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| A2 | 8 | Spiral in, spiral out
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| 8 | zig-zags (leader arch to reverse)
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| B1 | 8 | "double bow knot" then thread the needle down the line
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| 8 | Spiral in, cut through
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| B2 | 8 | 2x2 arches that slide down, then go back through
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| 8 | Spiral in, leader arch to spiral out ("clap with the music")
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by: Linda Leslie
introduces moves: circle, do si do, swing, long lines, pass through
formation: three-face-three
Three face three in lines facing up/down the hall. Teach "home position".
| A1 | 8 | circle left 6 places
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| 8 | circle right 6 places
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| A2 | 8 | neighbors do si do once "ends do-si-do your opposite"
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| 8 | neighbors do si do once "middles do-si-do your opposite"
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| B1 | 8 | neighbors swing "ends swing your opposite"
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| 8 | neighbors swing "middles swing your opposite"
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| B2 | 8 | long lines forward & back
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| 8 | pass through to a new line of 3 ⁋
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Linda Leslie notes: Although I don't have the exact time that I wrote this dance, it must predate the first date I called it: 10/22/93 for the Appalachian Mountain Club, Joy Street, Boston. Especially useful for one night stands! Any combination of three. All dancers CAN do this dance, and it really mixes up the dancers. Great for weddings, etc. For these type evenings, I don't talk about #1 or #2 lines of three, or progression: rather I describe "home position". Once we have walked through the dance once, I then point out the couples who have come out at the top and/or bottom, asking them to wait out one time through the dance, turn around, and that this is when "home" changes. Works like a charm.....and the dancers are very happy finding new opposites for each cycle.
Original at http://www.lindalesliecaller.website/very-easy-dances.html
introduces moves: star, custom
formation: Becket (no matter)
| A1 | 8 | long lines forward & back
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| 8 | long lines forward & back
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| A2 | 8 | star right 4 places
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| 8 | star left 4 places
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| B1 | 8 | neighbors do si do once
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| 8 | partners do si do once
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| B2 | 16 | top 2 couples form line of 4, dance to the bottom over everyone's heads ⁋
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by: Jim Gregory
introduces moves: promenade, custom
formation: Circle mixer
| A1 | 8 | circle left 4 places
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| 8 | circle right 4 places - single file, ladles tap shoulder of new partner ⁋
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| A2 | 8 | partners do si do once
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| 8 | partners swing
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| B1 | 8 | partners promenade, then face the center
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| 8 | couples go forward & back
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| B2 | 8 | ladles go forward & back
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| 8 | gentlespoons go forward & back
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