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<div class="moz-cite-prefix">On 6/26/2015 6:21 AM, Read Weaver via
Callers wrote:<br>
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Are you asking about grapevine step? A twisting step, where you
alternate the right foot going in front of and behind the left as
you walk sideways. It’s how circles (of 4 or 8) are done in modern
western square dancing, and in the last several years increasingly
seen, to the dismay of all right-thinking people, on contra dance
floors.<br>
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I used to see lots of grapevine step in circle of four on the contra
dance floor when I started contradancing in the SF Bay Area in the
1980s. I haven't seen very much of it in the last ten years, so
interested it's making a comeback where Read can see it (presumably
Boston area).<br>
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What I have seen more lately is in big circles (like circle mixers
or contra-set-turns-into-an-oval) and some people flip back and
forth to face the people on either side of them alternately, which I
read as being more about the upper body than the feet. (I don't
like it that much; it can leave me in the position where the people
on either side of me are trying to face me at the same time and away
from me at the same time and I can't play with one without snubbing
the other.)<br>
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--Alan<br>
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