Benjo (revised)
For my friend Benjamin Dionysus , with whom
I share a birth date
Duple, Improper
A1
Neighbor Balance & Swing
A2
Ladies allemande right, 1-1/2
Partner swing
B1 Long
Lines Forward and Back, gents roll your partner away with a half sashay
All circle left 3
places, to a ring of 4
B2
Balance the ring, and spin one place to the right
Balance the
ring, spin one place to the right, and then turn to face the next
neighbor
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Galena
(for Galena, Illinois, a
small town near the Mississippi River)
Improper
Reverse progression
Begins in short wave lines of 4, actives facing down
Women join left hands, everyone has a NE in their right hand
A1 As
in Rory O'Moore (I never know whether this is Moore, or More...)
Balance R & L, slide R
Balance L & R, slide L
A2
everyone, with NE, allemande R half way
Walk forward (here is the reverse progression)
With next Ne, swing
B1
Circle left, 3 places
P swing
B2
Circle left 3 places
NE do si do
End in wavy lines of 4
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Terri,
the Fortunate Cookie
Improper formation
Double progression
A1 In wavy lines of 4,
balance forward and back,
Then an allemande right, one time, with the neighbor in your
right hand
Everyone drops hands, and walks forward 4 steps in the direction
they are facing
To form new wavy lines of 4
Balance forward and back
A2 Allemande right,
one time, with the neighbor in your right hand
Everyone drops hands and walks forward to the next neighbor to
Swing
B1 Circle left three
places
Partner swing
B2 Long lines go forward
and back
Ladies gypsy by the LEFT, one and a half times, to form new wavy
lines of four.
One of the nice things about this dance is that since
it’s a double
progression, everyone swings on A2, every time.
Named for the lovely and
talented Miss
Terri Pline from Chicago.
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| 3-34
Contra dance, Becket formation
A1 Long lines forward
and back
Ladies chain across *
A2 Ladies start a
right shoulder hey for four
As you come out of the hey, ladies look left and men look right for
B1 Next neighbor,
right hand balance, pull by right, left to the next,
pull by left
Right to the third neighbor, balance and box the gnat (ala 3-33)
B2 Pull by right, JUST
ONE PERSON, to a circle left three quarters
Partner swing
*At the end of A1, have the ladies look to their right to find
the neighbor
with whom they will do a right hand balance at the start of B1.
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| Jim’s
Runey Rug
Contra dance - Becket formation
A1 In a ring of four,
balance, and spin to the right 1-1/2 times to
face new neighbors*
In a ring of four balance, and spin to the right once**
A2 Men chain by the
right
Men to the middle for a do-si-do, 1-1/2 times, to face
partner
B1 Pass partner by the
right for a full hey for four
B2 Partner balance and
swing
*the progression of the dance is here
** as dancers come out of the spin to the right, ladies catch
partner’s
hand to help propel him into a chain
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| Mulberry
Square
Square, Mixer
A1 Heads go forward,
right hand to opposite, balance,
Square through four hands to corner
A2 Corner balance and
swing,
end in lines at the sides
B1 All four ladies
grand chain, end in lines at the SIDES
Lines go forward and back
B2 All four ladies
grand chain back, end in lines at the HEADS
Lines go forward and back
C1 Gents go in for a
left hand star to same corner
Gypsy
C1 Promenade corner to
gents home
Repeat for heads, then for sides twice
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| 3-33
Square Dance Break
I use Steve Zakon Anderson’s 3-33 figure as a square
dance break.
It’s great with a “keeper” square, because with this
break, everyone in
the square swings all the other people of the opposite gender.
A1 With your
next corner, balance, pull by right, left to the
next around the square,
Pull by left, right to the third,
balance, and box the gnat
A2 Go back the
other way, pull by right and pull by left to original
corner.
Repeat A1 and A2 3 times
Corner allemande left, right to partner
Grand Right and Left all the way home
Promenade one time around
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