We danced this at Memfest this year with George Marshall and Wild Asparagus. (Not sure how
many other dances there could be with the backing up in lines of 4 and the turn single,
surely it's this one?) I'm glad to know now what this move is called as I really
enjoyed it, and this dance.
But, I'm not remembering it taking up an entire 4 counts in this dance. The music,
calling, and space all played into that. Nobody minds getting into a neighbor balance and
swing a bit early; lines were cramped. I know my partner and I had fun rolling off each
others shoulders and into the arms of a neighbor. But that was just my point of view.
Maybe some others we danced with were frustrated by the lack of space.
At the end of A1 you are backing up (beep. beep. beep.) and there is a bit of a pause with
the dancers as they remember to back up and then bend the line in a slightly different
formation. Maybe if you called the last 8 counts of A1 as, "up the hall, turn alone,
BACK-UP the hall into a ring" you would have the 4 counts in A2 for a statelier
cloverleaf single.
JMHO
Alison in Memphis
-- Nancy Turner <nancyturner(a)madriver.com> wrote:
Hi All,
Two questions.
First, I'm looking at Sue Rosen's Handsome Young Maids and it
includes a Clover-leaf turn single (Ladies turn over left shoulder,
Gents Rt). In this move, it appears that both the ladies and the
gents spin around themselves, with the ladies going around their left
shoulders while the gents go around the right shoulders... they then
meet for a balance and swing. Is this right? Here's the dance, so
you can see it in context:
A1: Lines of 4:
Down 4 steps, turn alone
Rejoin line, 4 steps down (going backwards)
Up 4 steps, turn alone
Up 4 steps (backwards)
A2: Bend the line, cirlce left 1x, balance the ring
Clover-leaf turn single
B1: Neighbor B&Swing
B2: LLFB, One's only Partner Swing
(end facing down between new Neighbors)
Second question: I'm looking for a copy of Sa-Sa-La-Do. Does anyone
know it?
Thanks very much,
Nancy Turner
Vermont
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