Update on the dance previously presented. Thank you Bill Baritompa for the suggestion to switch to left hand waves. Much more satisfying! Thank you Tanya for the naming feedback.
Title: Two for Tea*
Author: Seth Tepfer
Formation: 4x4
A1: Long lines (8), in fours, Right hand chain to neighbor (8)
A2: Same person DSD (8), Neighbor swing (8)
B1: in fours, balance the ring (4), petronella spin to a wave of two - give neighbor LEFT hand to form short waves of two people; balance (4), "circulate 2" (walk forward two spaces) (4)
B2: balance (4), "circulate 2" (walk forward two spaces) (4); left hand dancer turn around and partner swing; end swing facing original direction and new couples
progressed and on the other side of the 4-some
Note:
- At the start of the dance, identify your traveling buddy of the opposite role. This is your shadow. When doing the circulate two think of the direction you are facing as a racetrack or a paperclip - if you get to the end you will loop to your left
to continue. You will end up in the place of the 2 people in front of you. You will pass 3 people and take the hand of the 4th. If you loop, looping counts as passing one person. When you remake the wave of two, the person you take left hands
with is your shadow,
*Please note new name and discard previous name of the dance.
- We only had 8 people, so after partner swing, we faced back in to repeat the dance. Normally after partner swing you would face your original direction to
have new couples to play with.
- The musician was playing "Softly Good Tummas' on a lark and because it is such a fabulous tune. That tune is not requisite for the dance.
Seth Tepfer, MBA, CSM, PMP (he, him, his)
Senior IT Manager, Emory Primate Center