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20 May 2014

  Last night i wanted to do a square dance with a Grand Square for a
chorus.   In planning for the evening, i thought it might be good to
introduce the idea in a contra.  The following is the result:

 "Petite Square Contra"     DI         Tom Senior May 2014
A1 B&S N
A2 Circle Left, star Left
B1  Long lines F&B, 1's swing, and end close.
B2   Petite Square (1's are below)
       1-2 1's back up, 2's move forward (face down)
3-4 1's up the outside as 2's move down inside
5-6 1's in to center (face down), 2's back out
7-8  1's move down center to next N, 2's up outside to meet new 1's

The Petite Square move is borrowed from an English Country Dance by Gary
Roodman.  i have not seen it in contra before, although it may not be
 particularly original.

The dance went pretty well last night at the Chicago Barn Dance.  The only
problem was that the dancers wanted to rush through each section, not
taking 4 steps.  After a few times through, most dancers got the idea and
applied it to the grand square latter in the evening.  I also kept the
first 3 parts of the dance pretty simple since i wanted to do it early in
the evening.

Hope this might be useful.

Tom
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Possible new contra figure