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Sparkenhoe Circle

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SPARKENHOE CIRCLE (R64) Sq.Set Nicola Rigby Crystal Collection

1- 8 All dance 8H round and back
9-24 All advance and retire and 1s+3s dance RH across and dancing out through own place dance clockwise round outside of set back to place
25-40 All advance and retire and 2s+4s dance LH across and dancing out through own place dance anticlockwise round outside of set back to place
(ending in diagonal lines with 1s and 4s facing 2s and 3s)
41-48 All set twice in diagonal lines, all dance ½ R&L (1s with 2s, 3s with 4s)
49-56 All repeat bars 41-48
57-64 All dance 8H round and back

(MINICRIB. Dance crib compiled by Charles Upton, Deeside Caledonian Society, and his successors)


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