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Come Out And Dance

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Come Out And Dance (8x32R) 32 bar reel for three couples in a four couple longwise set, Murrough Landon, 2024
Bars Description

1-4 1st couple lead down the middle as far as they like. 2nd couple step up on bars 3-4.
5-8 1st man crosses 1st woman in front and with 1st woman leading they dance up in tandem behind the men's side into the centre in 2nd place and face each other.
9-12 1st couple, giving right hands, turn one and a half times to end in the centre nearer the opposite side.
13-16 1st woman with 2nd and 3rd men, also 1st man with 2nd and 3rd women, each dance left hands across. 1st couple release hands a little early and end passing left shoulder to face out in 2nd place on their own sides.
17-20 1st couple dance out and cast left shoulder around their 4th corner to end in the centre in 2nd place, nearer the opposite side, left shoulder to their partner.
 Meanwhile 2nd and 3rd couples advance, clap hands with their partner and retire.
21-24 1st woman with 2nd and 3rd men, also 1st man with 2nd and 3rd women, each dance right hands across. All release hands a little early. 1st couple end passing right shoulder to 2nd place on their own sides as the corners continue looping ready to form a circle.
25-32 2nd, 1st and 3rd couples circle six hands round to the left and back.
The final order is 2,1,3

(Dance crib compiled by the deviser, Murrough Landon, CC BY-SA July 2024)


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Dance Information

This is intended as a fairly simple flowing dance for the Gay Gordons Group.

The first 8 bars are taken from The Aviator by Carola Fischer. The unusual transition for 1st couple from right hands across on the opposite side into a circle on their own side occurs in The Final City by Malcolm Brown.

Recommended music: Suggested tune The Rendezvous (Traditional); suitable recording The Gathering (Muriel Johnstone's Band: Dance Through The Miscellanies - First Part).

(Dance information by the deviser, Murrough Landon, CC BY-SA July 2024)

The Gay Gordons dance group
The Gay Gordons Dance Group
London Gay Pride, July 4th, 2009

Published in Come Out And Dance, reproduced here with the kind permission of the deviser, Murrough Landon, CC BY-SA.
Image copyright Maggie Jones (https://www.flickr.com/photos/maggiejones/3686924013/) Creative Commons Licence 1.0, via Flickr.

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