Take a look at Jermone Grisanti's Gateway to the south:

Vidoe: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vo217RbAHt4

Jerome's website: https://www.jeromegrisanti.com/dance_compositions_by_jerome.htm#Gateway

Caller box: https://www.ibiblio.org/contradance/thecallersbox/dance.php?id=4963

Seth Tepfer (he, him, his)

Software Engineering, Emory Primate Center

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From: Elizabeth Bloom Albert via Contra Callers <contracallers@lists.sharedweight.net>
Sent: Monday, November 10, 2025 11:08 AM
To: Shared Weight callers list <callers@lists.sharedweight.net>
Subject: [External] [Callers] Right hand high and left hand low figure

 

Dear callers and fellow dance writers,

I am writing a new contra dance and I have a question:

Has there ever been an instance where, during a “Right hand high and left hand low,” everybody in a line of FOUR snakes under the raised arms (i.e., no one turns alone) in order to come back up the hall?

Caller’s Box explains the move as “A way for a line of three to face the other direction and swap ends without dropping hands.”  I want it to be a line of four. Will that work?

Thank you!

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Elizabeth Bloom Albert