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dances:border:countercurrents-description

Tune: Joy by Jeff Bigler (MP3 played by Jeff Bigler)
Set: 6 dancers; 29“(medium) sticks; skipping (single steps)
Source: Red Herring / Jeff Bigler, Laura Bigler, Jon Pfeffer and Rex Powell (2017)
Chorus: middles (#3 and #4) dance clockwise, clashing with stationary dancers on the downbeats of bars 1, 3, 5, and 7 as they pass. Everyone else starts with #1 clashing with #3, #6 clashing with #4, and #2 and #5 tossing diagonally across the set. Then the inner 4 dancers rotate one person to the left and clash forehand-backhand-forehand, then rotate left again and clash outwards or toss. Continue the pattern.
Figures: grand right & left on, hex bomb (hexagonal bombast), staggered starburst, through & throw, triangles off

dances/border/countercurrents-description.txt · Last modified: 2017/06/25 21:01 by Jeff Bigler