Hi Jerome,

The allemande is with a new (corner) neighbour — if you’re thinking in role terms, only the Robins are doing it and it takes them back to their home side, progressed. 

In the As, the Robins are always going forward in the gates, and they cross in the B1 chain, and then they do the allemande — so there’s a lot of support for positional teaching/calling and also a pretty significant incentive to switch roles, for those who enjoy that sort of thing. (The Larks never cross the set; this will be construed as a weakness by some, but I find the A figures are novel enough to mitigate it, and it does make the pattern that much more accessible for new dancers, especially if you point it out.)

Louise.