Corner dance, 3 couples.
Two hankies.
(Ax2+Bx3)x4+Ax2. A is a 4 bars & B is 8 bars. Musically it has 6 beats per bar but is danced as 4 counts.
Foot Up | Ch 1 | Rounds | Ch 2 | Rounds | Ch 3 | Rounds | Ch 4 |Hey on Sides [ending with] All Up & Show
Replace the Galley Round with 2 capers [so there are 4 capers in total at the end] ending with one foot in the air and hands up.
Triple step F [e.g. LF + RF + LF + Lhop] with hankies going in big high circles [theta approx. 20 deg, phi = 0 deg, Rh acw, Lh cw, moving out forwards on beats 2 & 4] [1 bar]. Step [RF] then leap [from Rft] landing on both feet [1 bar]. Galley Round [LF then swing RF across turning acw] [1 bar]. 2 capers [1 bar].
The next Basic will have L & R switched and cw & acw switched for the feet.
Start on outside foot for Rounds & Foot Up and the inside foot of the starting turn for the Hey.
This is done by going up then down in two basics.
Done in 2 basics, part round each way.
People who have to continue in one direction in each half [the end people] do so by travelling most of the way in the first half of the Basic.
Corners in turn do (Rft closed sidesteps for 2 bars [4x(RFA + LI)] with Rh hanky saluting [acw, above head and slightly to the front, forwards during the RFA steps]. Lft sidestep for 1 bar [RC + LFA + RI]. Move in to meet opposite corner in a LF step [beat 1] and a leap landing both feet together [beat 3] [1 bar]. Then 2 bars of punching [on beat 3 of the bars mime punching opposite corner’s head first Rh then Lh]. Cross to opposite corner’s place in 4 capers.)
It is advised not backhand flick hankies at opposite corner because it might painfully hit an eye if done fast.
Like Chorus 1 but replace punching with kicking. The kicks are done by leaping onto one foot and kicking the other foot straight legged out infront a little & there are three of these per bar [the timing is sort of like slow + quick + quick + pause]. The first bar has R + L + R kicks [so it starts by stepping onto Lft] and the second is L + R + L.
It is okay to ham up the choruses in this dance.
An extreme example of hamming this dance up: Owlswick Morris alter the last Ch by having one of the second corners grabbing the other and run off with them in a shoulder carry then the third corners [when the audience are expecting something even more violent] gently waltzing off [with the music changing to a classical waltz].
Learnt as part of Lagabag Morris’s dance repertoire.
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