Hi, I just recently did a dance with 2 “Petronella Turns” in it, the dance is below, and realized that I had a question about it. If any of you remember the dance Petronella, from which the figure was copied, you will remember that when we “moved one place to the right”, we moved from the line to the SPACE between the lines, then to the opposite line, then again to the SPACE between the lines, then home (when we did it with four people this was still the amount moved). Describing this from the point of view of one particular dancer, when we do a Petronella turn today, it seems to me, that dancer moves what we would have called 2 places to the right to end up in the other line, then one place up the line, then 2 places to the other line then one place down the line. From the point of view of the other dancers this is similar. I assume that this is true of all modern contras that borrow this Petronella turn. Is this how you see it? The dance I called was “Kitchen Stomp”, by Becky Hill (A1) Neighbor balance and swing / (A2) Men Allemande Left (1 and ½ ), Partner Swing / (B1) Ladies Chain over, Petronella Balance and Turn / (B2) Petronella Balance and Turn, Star Left. Thanks, Rickey Holt, Fremont, NH _______________________________________________ Callers mailing list Callers(a)sharedweight.net http://www.sharedweight.net/mailman/listinfo/callers