[Callers] Re: the Yemenite dance step

The grapevine step while circling is very common in Modern Western Square Dancing. It is even in the definition of Circle Left: "Some regions dance 8-dancer circles with a walking step with no turning motion of the body. Other regions dance 8-dancer circles with a grapevine step, with the body and arms turning left and right, in synchrony with this step, allowing the dancers to make eye contact with their Corners and Partners successively." Square dances and contra dances often used to be danced on the same evening. I have no idea which style it started in, but it may well have been absorbed from one into the other.             Happy dancing,                    John John Sweeney, Dancer, England   john(a)modernjive.com 01233 625 362 & 07802 940 574 http://www.contrafusion.co.uk for Dancing in Kent