<html><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html charset=utf-8"></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space;" class=""><div>Kalia, Don’t know if any of these will suit. It’s for new callers, not necessarily new dancers, so the first may be too family dance oriented.</div><div><br class=""></div><div>All of the following are Becket formation</div><div><br class=""></div><div>My variant of Balance the Star #2 by the McLain Family (at least that’s the title I have for it). I changed the order of the stars, and also the first do-si-do that was left shoulder, as why make it more confusing?</div><div>A1 Take left hands in a star, balance the star twice</div><div><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span>Star left once around</div><div>A2 Take right hands in a star, balance the star twice</div><div><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span>Star right once around</div><div>B1<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span>Ladies do-si-do by the right shoulder (Neighbor do-si-do, if you have kids and adults and genders all mish-mashed)</div><div><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span>Gents do-si-do once around (partner do-si-do if did neighbor)</div><div>B2 <span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span>Circle left once around</div><div><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span>Slice left to the next couple</div><div><br class=""></div><div>Bride and Groom Reel</div><div>Merri Rudd</div><div><br class=""></div><div>A1 Circle Left 3/4</div><div>Swing neighbor</div><div>A2 Ladies allemande right</div><div>Swing partner</div><div>B1 Ladies chain</div><div>Chain back</div><div>B2 Long lines forward and back</div><div>Slice left</div><div><br class=""></div><div>Is This Reel?</div><div>Christine Hale</div><div>A1 Do-si-do partner</div><div>Swing partner</div><div>A2 Circle left once</div><div>Ladies chain</div><div>B1 Long lines forward and back</div><div>Swing the NEXT neighbor (not the one you chained to)</div><div>B2 Promenade across the set</div><div>Gents allemande left 1 1/2</div><div><br class=""></div><div>Note that this could be a non-Becket if it started at B1. Also A1 could be balance and swing partner or spiral (we’ve been using this in lieu of the g-word) and swing partner.</div><div><br class=""></div><div>Jan and Dean</div><div>I don’t know the author</div><div><br class=""></div><div>A1 Long lines</div><div>Circle left 3/4, bottom couple arch, top couple pops through</div><div>A2 Four in line down the hall with the next couple, turn alone and come back</div><div>B1 Circle left once</div><div>Ladies chain</div><div>B2 Ladies do-si-do once</div><div>Swing partner</div><div><br class=""></div><div>North Cascades</div><div>Penn Fixx</div><div><br class=""></div><div>A1 On the left diagonal, right and left through</div><div>Across the set, right and left through</div><div>A2 Long lines forward and back</div><div>Ladies chain</div><div>B1 Ladies do-si-do 1 1/2 (this could also be a spiral) to end up in neighbor lady’s place</div><div>Circle left once around</div><div>B2 Balance and swing partner</div><div><br class=""></div><div>Square Affair (slight variant)</div><div>Becky Hill</div><div><br class=""></div><div>A1 Slice left</div><div>Ladies chain</div><div>A2 Balance your partner, half square through</div><div>Balance your partner, half square through</div><div>B1 Balance and swing NEW neighbor facing you</div><div>B2 Circle left 3/4</div><div>Swing partner</div><div><br class=""></div><div><br class=""></div><div><br class=""></div><div><br class=""></div><div><div style="margin: 0px; font-size: 9px; line-height: normal; font-family: Verdana; color: rgb(24, 24, 23);" class=""><br class=""></div></div><div><br class=""></div><div><br class=""></div><div><br class=""></div><br class=""></body></html>