Tom said:

>In your second variation, there are two swings. How does the timing work out? It looks like you are including more action in the second version than in the first. Or maybe I'm missing something.

The corner swing ends at the end of A2. Contra dancers are accustomed to ending swings on the end of the musical phrase, so it works out ok. That puts the gent behind his partner lady during the bouquet waltz and you end up with a nicer, smoother transition into the swing back at home.

I'm not clear on the timing in the A2.

Lead right would take 4 beats and circle left 8.

Promenade half and lead right is more like 8 or 10. So the circle and swing end up pretty well phrased.

So I'm assuming that the figures just blend from one to the other and it all ends with a swing at the end of the B2. In other words the sum of the figures equal 64 but the moves themselves don't clearly fit the music as some other dances.

Yes, that sums it up. For a dance party crowd especially -- no corner swing, that's how it works. Folks are doing elbow swings and the timing is pretty ragged, so you allow lots of time for the bouquet waltz and get them home and swinging and then, since the next figure is a fwd and back to start things off again, there is still more recovery time.

As noted, it works well with Tucker's Waltz. I'll try to write out the lyric/patter I've been using this week. It would be good for me to get that settled down. I've been faking it and that is not a good thing to do.