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DOWN CALEDONIAN SET |
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Larry E. Taylor |
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This set is from county Down, Ireland. |
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Swing in waltz hold. |
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Ladies chain: with a waist-level hold for all contacts, ladies grasp right hands in the |
| center and dance on to the opposite gent (who has danced into his partners | |
| position); couples hook left arms and dance around one another twice; ladies | |
| also take right hands when dancing to home. | |
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Gents dance forward on the left foot and ladies begin forward on the right foot. Note |
| the exception in Figure 5 wherein all begin on the right foot. | |
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Bar counts (quantities of measures) for patterns are shown in bold. |
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Dance a walking step (1-2, 1-2, 1-2, etc.) throughout the set. |
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The total bar count for each Figure includes an eight-bar introduction of music. Bow to |
| Partner then to Corner during the introduction. | |
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First side couple is on the right of the first top couple. |
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Edition of November 22, 2008 Contact larryetaylor@hotmail.com . |
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| Except when swinging, dance a walking step, 1-2, 1-2, 1-2. | |
| Top couples: | |
| swing in waltz hold8; | |
| ladies chain (see heading)8; | |
| swing in waltz hold8. | |
| Side couples: | repeat
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| All couples: | stand (sometimes clapping)8. |
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| Except when swinging, dance a walking step, 1-2, 1-2, 1-2. | |
| Top couples: | |
| dancing to the next lady on the left8; | |
| All couples: | as new partners (corner-partners) swing in waltz hold8; |
| gents give lefts in center (pinwheel) and rights at new partners waist behind; | |
| lead around (big wheel)8. | |
| Top couples: | repeat
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| Side couples: | repeat
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| All couples: | stand (sometimes clapping)8. |
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| Except when swinging, dance a walking step, 1-2, 1-2, 1-2. | |
| Top couples: | |
| swing in waltz hold8; | |
| ladies chain8; | |
| swing in waltz hold8. | |
| Side couples: | repeat from |
| All couples: | stand (sometimes clapping)8. |
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| Except when swinging, dance a walking step, 1-2, 1-2, 1-2. | |
| Top couples: | |
| hold4; reverse to place2; | |
| pass through : | |
| first top take inside hands and dance through second top, release hands | |
| and turn out from one another; | |
| while second top dance across on the outside of first top and turn in | |
| to one another4; | |
| repeat the preceding pass through except second top pass through | |
| the middle4. | |
| All couples: | swing corner-partner in waltz hold8; |
| repeat
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| side gent then second side lady/first side gent leading72; | |
| stand (sometimes clapping)8. |
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| Except when swinging, dance a walking step, 1-2, 1-2, 1-2. | |
| 1st top couple: | |
| house to home6. | |
| All couples: | all ladies advance and retire once (no-touch; 1-2-3-kick, back on left, kick right, |
| back on right, kick lefts then back on lefts beside rights)4. | |
| all gents advance and retire once (no-touch; face into the set when advancing and | |
| face out of the set when retiring)4; | |
| swing in waltz hold8; | |
| chain to opposite; partners begin right-hand-in-right (gents thus dance | |
| anticlockwise and ladies dance clockwise)8; | |
| take crossed hands (rights on top) and lead around to home4; | |
| still holding crossed hands, dance (turn) clockwise twice in-place4; | |
| partners release left hands; form a hand-holding circle with the gents facing out | |
| of the set and ladies facing into the set; and all dance in-place : | |
| kick rights, kick lefts, kick rights, kick lefts)4; | |
| gents turn their partner anticlockwise under their raised right arm to-place4; | |
| repeat
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| couple leading144; | |
| stand (sometimes clapping)8. |
