Formation: Sicilian Progressive
Author: Fay McAlinden, originally published in TSADV Dance Book No 1.
Music: 64 bar Irish jigs 6/8
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Bars |
Description |
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4 |
Circle left -- (Join hands in a circle of 4 and take 8 slip steps to the left). |
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4 |
Star right hand-- (Keep travelling in the same direction for 8 steps). |
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4 |
Circle right -- (8 slip steps to the right). |
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4 |
Star left hand-- (Keep travelling the same way). |
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8 |
Tops figure of eight -- (Top couple go between other couple, lady going through before her partner. |
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8 |
Bottom couple figure of eight -- (Same as the top couple). |
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4 |
Ladies chain half-way -- (Lady's chain to opposite man and stay in the ladies chain hold). |
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4 |
Promenade -- (Promenade to opposite place, men pass left shoulders, so that ladies are with opposite man in their original position). |
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4 |
Ladies chain half-way |
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4 |
Promenade -- (Now with partner and back to original place). |
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8 |
Rights and lefts -- (Finish back in original place). |
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2 |
Advance -- 4 steps. |
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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. |
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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. |
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64 |
Bars |