Written to exploit the progression in Rick Mohr's fabulous dance Warp and Weft, but with a shorter dance.
This seems to work fairly well for small grids – its first outing was for only 2 squares! But as per Rick's notes in Warp and Weft, it's normally better if you can make sure each square has at least 2 connected sides.
| A1 | Heads go out to the couple on your right and circle to a line (circle left halfway and head man/lark break left hand and lead to lines facing across) (4) Lines go forwards and back (4) |
| A2 | Double pass through if you can, otherwise single pass through and California twirl partner at the edge of the grid (4) Right hand star with the couple in front of you (4) |
| B1 | 4 people in the middle of the set left hand star; if confident then others that can left hand star with two people from next set at the same time (4) Swing partner (4) |
| B2 | Promenade partner ⅞ around the set (8) |
Alternate heads and sides leading
For the promenade at the end, those who have changed sets with a double pass through should be back in the same relative set position. For the others, active couples will have gone round the set one place left and inactive couples one place right, but I would just say to trust those that have changed sets if confused.
Those left hand stars into the next set can be both where the greatest magic happens, and also where the greatest confusion happens! With big grids it's possible that some people might get confused as to where your set is at that point – I haven't tried this in a big enough grid yet to find out!
Written while at the folkie house in Brunswick Street, Sheffield – while everyone else was busy making new bell pads for Boggart's Breakfast, I was writing dances.