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<p class="MsoNormal">John Sweeney wrote (back in June):<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:11.55pt">Hi Linda,<br>
Re your Box ‘n’ Swat: I have a somewhat similar dance in my files:<br>
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Circle Mixers Are Fun (by Tony Parkes)<br>
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A1) Into the Middle & Back x 2<br>
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A2) Partner Right Hand: Balance & Box the Gnat; Partner Dosido<br>
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B1) Partner Left Hand: Balance & Swat the Flea; Partner Seesaw (Left Shoulder Dosido) 1 & 1/2 to meet your New Partner<br>
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B2) New Partner Balance (OR Gypsy) & Swing<br>
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Note that your sequence of Swat the Flea into Dosido involves passing by the right when you are holding left hands. Tony’s sequences above allow much easier flow and connection as you can pull past with the connected hand.<br>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><a name="_MailEndCompose">And Linda Mrosko wrote:<o:p></o:p></a></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="mso-bookmark:_MailEndCompose">> …thanks for sharing Tony’s dance. I don’t remember ever seeing it before.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="mso-bookmark:_MailEndCompose">The right name of that sequence is “May Day Mixer”; I wrote it in April 1990, presumably for a May Day event. It appears in my collection _<i>Son of Shadrack and other dances</i>_, available at
</span><a href="http://www.hands4.com"><span style="mso-bookmark:_MailEndCompose">www.hands4.com</span><span style="mso-bookmark:_MailEndCompose"></span></a><span style="mso-bookmark:_MailEndCompose">.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="mso-bookmark:_MailEndCompose">Tony Parkes<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="mso-bookmark:_MailEndCompose">Billerica, Mass.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="mso-bookmark:_MailEndCompose"></span><a href="http://www.hands4.com/"><span style="mso-bookmark:_MailEndCompose"><span style="color:#0563C1">www.hands4.com</span></span><span style="mso-bookmark:_MailEndCompose"></span></a><span style="mso-bookmark:_MailEndCompose"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="mso-bookmark:_MailEndCompose">New book! Square Dance Calling: An Old Art for a New Century<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="mso-bookmark:_MailEndCompose">(to be published real soon)<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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