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A1. Ring balance; Ladies Neighbor roll away (with a half sashay) along 

     Ring balance; Gents Partner rollaway across</td>

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<td class="sched-table">A2.</td>

<td>Neighbor balance and swing

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<td class="sched-table">B1.</td>

<td>Circle L 3 places; 

<br/>Partner swing</td>

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<td class="sched-table">B2.</td>

<td>Ring balance; Gents Neighbor rollaway across

<br/>Ring balance and (either pass R or arch/duck) to meet new neighbors</td>

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(1/2017) Roll away with a half sashay is perhaps the purest distillation of weight-sharing, yet compared to the more complex chain, conspicuously absent from much of the choreography used with beginning dancers.  

In the interest of teaching only one new move per dance, i sought here to use the rollaway as a means of drilling weight sharing, building muscle memory, and reinforcing key hall awareness concepts "along/across" in an early-evening sequence.  

There's a hidden agenda here: Doing a "wowee" figure in the second half with minimal additional teaching.  

<br/><br/>A2 can be articulated as either a ring balance or a two-hand neighbor balance. For dancers already familiar with the petronella spin, "Sourdough" variation: B2. Ring balance; Ladies Partner rollaway along; Ring balance; all spin R 1.5 to meet new neighbors.