With respect to Tom's prior comment about dancers substituting the simplest interpretation sometimes, I think this dance could have that apply.

Up through the A2 Ladies Chain you are in lines of four facing configuration (as opposed to square). If the Dosidos happen in two groups of 2 (parallel traditional Dosidos) up and down then that formation is maintained, timing is proven and the Circle entry still has the same inertia.

-Don

On Tue, Dec 1, 2015 at 5:45 AM, Luke Donforth via Callers <callers@lists.sharedweight.net> wrote:
It's 5 am, and I find myself awake and writing dances; specifically 4x4s.
Unfortunately, I don't have 8 dancers waiting on my insomnia to test things, so I figured I'd send them to shared weight...

Possibly this is a choreographic question already answered in square dancing, but I'm not familiar with the outcome. How well does a four person do-si-do work? I'm thinking of something along the lines of:

Doubled-si-do
Four Facing Four

A1 -----------
(4) Give and Gents take (up and down)
(12) Neighbor swing
A2 -----------
(8) Women's Chain back to partner (up and down), turn to face in
(8) All four Women Do-si-do 1x
B1 -----------
(8) All four Men Do-si-do 1x
(8) All eight Circle Left 1/2x
B2 -----------
(16) Partner balance and swing
End facing line of direction

In my head, the four person do-si-do is a right hand star sans hands; but not sure how well it'll fly; especially since the right diagonal women have less far to turn to face in than the left diagonal women coming out of the chain.

Thoughts?

Thank you

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