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Steps for Frances

Seth Tepfer and I collaborated to collaborated to create this dance to be raffled as a fund raiser for the Country Dance and Song Society (and it raised over $2,000). It was won by Atlantan Chris Carroll, who named it for her mother.
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Steps for Frances © 2019 Seth Tepfer
Formation: Improper, start close to partner

A1  1-2  Fall back a double
       3-4  Forward a double to cross over
       5-8  Take inside hand with neighbor (lark left with robin right) to pivot 3 places. (Gent is a post while lady goes 3 places around. Ladies end diagonally opposite to where they started.) End facing neighbor with 2 hands joined.

A2  1-4  Half pousette clockwise (gents advance, ladies retire) around other couple 
       5-8  Right hands star

B1  1-2  Larks turn single left while ladies pull by right and face in ready with left hand 
       3-4  Left handS star 1/2 
       5-8  Face partner and pass left shoulders for two changes of a circular hey, passing partner left and then neighbor right

B2 1-4  Double mad robin clockwise (ladies slide right in front, gents left behind to start) 
       5-8  Partner two-hand turn one and a half times to trade places

Here's a brief look at the dance.
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