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ARMAGH QUADRILLES SET |
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© 2008
Larry E. Taylor |
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This set from County Armagh, Ireland is to be danced very gently |
| with absolutely no battering. | |
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The music should be slow and the steps (down-2-3, and as shown below) |
| should be very low to the floor. | |
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First side couple is right of first top couple. |
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Swing in waltz hold. |
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Bar counts for patterns are shown in bold. |
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The total bar count for each Figure includes an eight-bar introduction of music. |
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Ladies Chain: Ladies take right hands in the center then take the opposite gent’s left |
| forearm; make two turns arm-in-arm at the gent’s position; dance back to home | |
| without touching hands in the center. | |
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Gents dance forward on the left foot and ladies begin forward on the right foot throughout. |
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Documentation is based upon a workshop taught by taught by Mary Fox at Milwaukee, |
| Wisconsin USA, August 2004. Another version exists. | |
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Edition of March 03, 2007 — Contact larryetaylor@hotmail.com |
| FIGURE 1 -- JIGS or MARCHES (136
BARS) |
| Top couples: |  pass
through to opposite, with ladies on the inside, |
| and pass left shoulder to left shoulder to-place4; | |
| pass through to home and to-place as above4; | |
| swing in waltz hold8; | |
| ladies chain (see heading)8; | |
| swing in waltz hold8. | |
| Side couples: | repeat from 32. |
| All couples: | repeat from 64. |
| FIGURE 2 -- JIGS or MARCHES (104 BARS)
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| Top couples: | advance and retire once, right
hand in right (1-2-3-lift and cross the other |
| foot without putting weight on last forward step/cross; rather, | |
| swing the lifted-foot and begin the retire with that foot)4; | |
| pass through as in Figure One4; | |
| advance and retire once, right hand in right4; pass through as in Figure One4; | |
| swing in waltz hold8. | |
| Side couples: | repeat from 24. |
| All couples: | repeat from 48. |
| FIGURE 3 -- JIGS or MARCHES (136 BARS) |
| Top couples: | first top gent and second
top lady take left hands in the |
| center and dance one anticlockwise turn4; | |
| take original partners in open-waltz hold and lead around to | |
| opposite, dropping left hands after three bars4; | |
| Top couples: | slide in and out once, in waltz hold (1-2, 1-lift/cross)4; |
| slide to home, in waltz hold, with gents back to back (four slides: | |
| 1-2, 1-2, 1-2 then anticlockwise to-place 1-2--not a gallop)4; | |
| ladies chain8; | |
| swing in waltz hold8. | |
| All couples: | repeat from |
| first side gent/second side lady, | |
| then second side gent/first side lady leading96. |
| FIGURE 4 -- JIGS or MARCHES (200 BARS) |
| First top couple: | house inside and leave
lady at second top gent’s left who takes ladies’ |
| outside hands and the first top gent takes the ladies’ inside hands | |
| underneath the others’ arms8. | |
Wheelbarrow (T-figure): trio and solo gent advance and retire twice; on |
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| bar six, still holding hands, pull upward turning ladies beside the | |
| other man8. | |
| new trio and solo gent advance and retire twice; on bar six, pull upward to | |
| turn the ladies to a circle-of-four8. | |
| Top couples: | little Christmas6; reverse to place2; |
| ladies chain8; | |
| swing in waltz hold8. | |
| All couples: | repeat
from
with second top couple, first side then second side |
| couple leading144. |
| FIGURE 5 -- JIGS or MARCHES (128 BARS) |
| All couples: | take hands in a circle and advance and retire twice, dancing |
| a 1-2-3-lift/cross step8; | |
| swing in waltz hold8; | |
| lead around in open waltz hold8; | |
| take hands in a circle
and advance and retire twice, dancing |
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| a 1-2-3-lift/cross step8; | |
| corners swing in waltz hold, ending at the gents’ home (also known as | |
| swing behind -- gents face left and ladies face right)8; | |
| lead around in open-waltz hold8; | |
| repeat from until original partners swing in waltz hold72. |
