I thought up a cool little ending to a Revolving Door and have incorporated it into a couple of new dances. I call the action "Revolving Door to a Wave" and it's as follows:

from couples facing across - Ladies start an Allemande Right 1x while depositing the gent they were with on the other side, as the ladies come back across and are finishing, they slide nose-to-nose past the other gent (who has turned a 3/4 turn to their right) to put the gents in the middle of a wave across. Gents have left hands in the middle and right hands with the lady they did not start with. If you are familiar with MWSD, it feels a bit like the call Spread. Here are the dances that use it. Only the second has been road-tested.

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Title of Contra by Andy Shore
Contra/Becket-CCW

A1 -----------
(8) Revolving Doors (Ladies RH) **to a wave (gents in middle, N in RH)

(4,4) Balance the Wave, Walk Forward to the Next
A2 -----------
(16) Next Neighbor Balance & swing
B1 -----------
(8) Mad Robin - gents in front to the right
(8) Gents allemande Left 1.5
B2 -----------
(16) Partner balance and swing

when out, wait with partner on the 'wrong side'

Doorbits

by Andy Shore

Contra/Improper/Int

A1 -----------

(16) Neighbor balance and swing

A2 -----------

(8) Revolving Door (Ladies RH) **as if to a wave**

(8) Men allemande Left 1.5 while Ladies Orbit CW across

B1 -----------

(16) Partner balance and swing

B2 -----------

(8) Ladies Chain

(8) Star Left

In this dance, they do not actually form the wave, but gents take LH in the middle for the Allemande

** as you finish the revolving door, Slide Past Parnter nose-to-nose to put Gents in the middle to star the next move, gents are facing in original direction of progression, ladies are anti --

/Andy Shore
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