The T-Shirt Twins
Scottish Country Dance Instruction
The T-Shirt Twins (The Entangled T-Shirts) (R4x32) 4C (4C set) 32 Bar Reel For 4 Couples In A 4 Couple Set, Devised By Murrough Landon (2026).1-8 Tardis: 1st and 2nd couples dance a Chain Progression. Meanwhile...
Thinking: 4th man stands for 4 bars while 3rd couple with 4th woman dance three right hands across ending on the sides. Then 3rd and 4th couples dance four left hands across.
9-12 All dance back to back. 2nd and 1st couples start by passing their partner right shoulder but 3rd and 4th couples start by passing left shoulder.
13-16 2nd with 1st, also 3rd with 4th couples, each circle four hands once round to the left.
17-24 Thinking: 1st man stands for 4 bars while 2nd couple with 1st woman dance three right hands across ending on the sides. Then 2nd and 1st couples dance four left hands across. 1st couple end in the centre in 2nd place with both hands joined. Meanwhile...
Tardis: 3rd and 4th couples dance a Chain Progression. 4th couple end in 3rd place in the centre in promenade hold facing up.
25-32 1st and 4th couples dance an Allepousse: 1st couple dance the track of the top couple in a Poussette, starting out to the men's side while 4th couple dance the track of 2nd couple in an Allemande. The final order is 2,4,1,3.
(Dance crib compiled by the deviser, Murrough Landon, CC BY-SA August 2026)
Dance Notes
The trickiest part of this dance is remembering which figure to do where at which point.Those who are standing during the Allepousse should have time to remember and prompt the others, if needed, at the start of the following repeat.
(Dance notes by the deviser, Murrough Landon, CC BY-SA August 2026)
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The T-Shirt Twins - Scottish Country Dancing Instruction VideoDance Information
This dance was created for Achim Mahnke and Robert Krause, who share an interest in humorous science-themed T-shirts.They own at least two almost identical designs, although they do not arrange to wear them simultaneously. Accordingly, first and fourth men perform the same sequences of figures, but at different points in the dance.
The subtitle alludes to the phenomenon of quantum entanglement, in which two particles are coupled. One of the T-shirts features a computer progress bar halted with the message "Thinking... Please wait".
In keeping with this, the dancing men omit the first four bars of a non-progressive hands across and back. Another T-shirt depicts a Tardis crushing a car parked in a space marked "Tardis parking only". Rather than attempting to represent this directly, the choreography instead has the couples progress one place, in both time and space, by means of a chain progression.
Recommended music: Suggested tune: Harry Picken's Hornpipe (David White).
- Suitable recording: And the Ladies Wore Red (Marian Anderson and her SDB: The Sunday Class:
"Thinking... Please Wait" T-Shirt
Published in The T-Shirt Twins, reproduced here with the kind permission of the deviser, Murrough Landon, CC BY-SA.
Image from Karola Riegler, used under CC BY-ND 2.0, via Flickr.
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