Around The House and Mind the Dresser

Formation: Sicilian Progressive
Author: Fay McAlinden, originally published in TSADV Dance Book No 1.
Music: 64 bar Irish jigs 6/8

Bars 

Description

4

Circle left -- (Join hands in a circle of 4 and take 8 slip steps to the left).

4

Star right hand-- (Keep travelling in the same direction for 8 steps).

4

Circle right -- (8 slip steps to the right).

4

Star left hand-- (Keep travelling the same way).

8

Tops figure of eight -- (Top couple go between other couple, lady going through before her partner.
The lady goes behind her opposite lady, then between the couple again, behind the man and back to place.
At the same time the top man does the same, going behind the opposite man then behind the opposite lady and back to place).

8

Bottom couple figure of eight -- (Same as the top couple).

4

Ladies chain half-way -- (Lady's chain to opposite man and stay in the ladies chain hold).

4

Promenade -- (Promenade to opposite place, men pass left shoulders, so that ladies are with opposite man in their original position).

4

Ladies chain half-way

4

Promenade -- (Now with partner and back to original place).

8

Rights and lefts -- (Finish back in original place).

2

Advance -- 4 steps.

2

Couple 2 (facing anticlockwise) Retire for 4 steps, while Couple 1 (who are facing clockwise) turn single in towards each other and finish facing anticlockwise, then take 4 steps fwd.

4

Couple 2 Pass through -- (8 steps fwd to meet a new Couple 1), while Couple 1 cast out (man by right shoulder, woman by left shoulder) around Couple 2, meet and holding inside hands, progress clockwise on to a new Couple 2.

64

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