Corner dance.
Hankies.
(Ax2+Bx2)x2+(Ax2+Cx2)x2+Ax2. A is 4 bars, B & C are each 8 bars. Musically there are 6 beats per bar but it is danced as 4 counts. The music slows for the RTBs & Split Capers in first 4 bars of C [the transcription in Mally’s sheet music book represents this slowing by writing C as 5 bars of 4 beats, 1 bar of 2 beats, 1 bar of 3 beats and 5 bars of 6!].
A Rh Salute is simply circling Rh above head in horizontal plane [theta = 0 deg] 360 deg acw and then bringing it down vertically infront of the middle of the body. Bow as the hand goes down. There is no stepping or Lh movement. It takes one bar.
Corners in turn do a Rh Salute [3 bars total]. Then everyone Hooks Into a Half Hey on the Sides [5 bars total]. Repeat all that [but Lh instead of Rh] back to place.
Like Ch 1 but replace the Rh & Lh Salutes by L & R Up-2-3s.
Like Ch 1 but replace the Rh & Lh Salutes by Bleddington RTBs & LTBs.
Like Ch 1 but replace the Rh & Rh Salutes by L & R Split Capers.
Learnt as part of Lagabag Morris’s dance repertoire.
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