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Steps for Frances

Seth Tepfer and I collaborated to collaborated to create this dance to be raffled as a fundraiser 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.  

There's video of the dance here. (This link takes you to a point in the dance where the music is more audible than in the beginning.)
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Steps for Frances © 2022 Seth Tepfer
Formation: Improper, start close to partner. (Revised from the original 2019 dance.)

A1
  • 1-2  Fall back a double
  • 3-4  Forward a double to cross over
  • 5-8  Take inside hand with neighbor and gate-pivot 3 places with 8 tiny steps. End facing neighbor with 2 hands joined.*
A2  
  • 1-4  Half pousette clockwise (those in 1st diagonal position advance, 2nd diagonal retire) around other couple 
  • 5-8  Right hands across
B1  
  • 1-8  Meanwhile figure
  • Those in 1st diagonal position: (1-4) hole in the wall cross, (5-6) set, (7-8) turn single right  WHILE
  • Those in 2nd diagonal position: (1-2) set, (3-6) back to back, (7-8) turn single right 
B2
  • 1-4 Left hands across
  • 5-8 partner two-hand turn counter-clockwise one and a half times to end close, improper
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Teaching Notes:
  • Gate-Pivot: The people currently in the 1st diagonal positions are a post and rotate 180 degrees while gating neighbor 270 degrees or 3 places. 2nd diagonals end diagonally opposite to where they started. 
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