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====== Pinwheels ======

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===== Detailed Description =====

This is a linked hankie dance.

==== Chorus ====

Bars 1-2: [[dances:fieldtown:figures:double-step|Double-step]] clashing on beat 1, passing your partner by the right shoulder and turning slightly to face each other.  [[dances:fieldtown:figures:double-step|Double-step]] to partner's place.
Bars 3-4: Pinwheel: Linked partners [[dances:fieldtown:figures:double-step|double-step]] to come together (shoulder to shoulder) as they rotate counter-clockwise.  Dancers coming from positions 1 & 4 and positions 3 & 6 clash on beat 1 as they pass.  [[dances:fieldtown:figures:double-step|Double-step]] back to home position.   
Bars 5-6: Pinwheel: Linked partners [[dances:fieldtown:figures:double-step|double-step]] to come together (shoulder to shoulder) as they rotate counter-clockwise.  Dancers coming from positions 1 & 4 and positions 3 & 6 clash on beat 1 as they pass.  [[dances:fieldtown:figures:double-step|Double-step]] back to partner's position.   
Bars 7-8: [[dances:fieldtown:figures:double-step|Double-step]] clashing on beat 1, passing your partner by the right shoulder and turning slightly to face each other.  [[dances:fieldtown:figures:double-step|Double-step]] to home place.
Bars 9-12: [[dances:fieldtown:figures:half-hey|Half-Hey]]

For the final chorus (after [[dances:fieldtown:figures:back-to-back|back-to-back]]), the half hey is "Adderbury style" with the two lines moving in parallel.  Tops pass middles by the right shoulder and bottoms by the left shoulder.  Then middles pass bottoms by the right shoulder.  At the end of this second half hey, the hankies are woven into a pinwheel for rounds.

==== Figures ====

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Dancers duck under the hankies when turning around.

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Dancers stop as soon as the hankies are taut.

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Dancers duck under the hankies as they slide sideways on the second double step.

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This figure is danced with the hankies woven in a pinwheel.

The dance ends all in at the end of rounds.

==== Tune ====

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