Me: "Moot Square" (my own
name for it) |
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Arrangement:
four
numbered couples in a square, facing in |
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Music: Structure - Verse
= 4 measures, Chorus = 4 measures, each part AB, total ABx4 |
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Lansdowne 1115 - third dance |
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Part 1 |
Verse 1 |
1: |
Everyone double into the
middle - form two lines, odd couples back to back, 1s facing up, 3s down, the
"corners" of the even couples facing with the odd couple on their
side |
2: |
Each line go forward a
double; about face |
3: |
Each line go forward a
double to meet; face out of the square with your partner - 1s and 3s about
face, evens face to their sides. |
4: |
Everyone double out with
your partner to your places; when you arrive, face so that the even men and
the odd women are facing back into the square, while the even women and odd
men are facing sideways, as if they were back-to-back with their partner. |
Chorus 1 |
1: |
Everyone double forward
from their rearranged positions to meet the person on your side who was
moving in the same direction as you - this will form sort of a
pinwheel-thing, vaguely; everyone face up (i.e. to the head of) the hall. |
2: |
Everyone double forward;
about face |
3: |
Everyone double forward in
this opposite direction; face toward your partner. |
4: |
Everyone double back to
your partner and into your normal places; face your corner. |
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Part 2 |
Verse 2 |
1-2: |
Set to your corner and
change places with them; |
3-4: |
Set to your corner again
and change places with them to return to your places; end facing your
partner. |
Chorus 2 |
1: |
Women take their partner by
both hands and pull them toward you |
2: |
Then switch into their
places with a double. |
3: |
Men take their partner by
both hands and pull them toward you |
4: |
Then switch with them,
going through your own place, putting them in their regular place, but ending
up with the men in the middle of the square and standing before their
partner, facing her. |
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Part 3 |
Verse 3 |
1-2: |
Set and turn to your
partner |
3: |
Give the person on your
right your right hand and switch with them in a double. |
4: |
Give the next person your
left hand and switch with them a double, ending up "halfe round"
the square, meeting your partner there and standing again in the same basic
orientation that you were in before (men facing partners from inside the square) |
Chorus 3 |
1-2: |
Set and turn to your
partner |
3: |
Give the person on your
left your left hand and switch with them in a double. |
4: |
Give the next person your
right hand and switch with them a double, ending up back where you began,
still in the same men-inside-facing-partner position. |
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Part 4 |
Verse 4 |
1-2: |
Men double out past their
partners (by right shoulder), women falling in behind, and with another
double loop around until you have returned to your starting positions in the
square (men can circle to their right after passing their partner, walk up
and around and then through their partner's place to their own, for example) |
3-4: |
Arm with your partner; end
up facing into the square. |
Chorus 4 |
1: |
Evens fall back a double,
taking their corners from the odd couples along with them, forming two lines
as they go. |
2: |
Lines double forward (they
won't get very close together - see next) |
3: |
The corners (the odds on
the ends of the evens' lines) double into the middle of the almost-met lines,
meeting their partners (and re-creating the original lines-in-the-middle
formation) |
4: |
Everyone fall back into
their starting places with a double. |
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