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Taste @ Sawtell

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TASTE @ SAWTELL (R8x32) 3C (4C set) Gaye Collin From Paper To Pearl

1- 8 1s+2s+3s set, cross over RH and face clockwise and chase ½ way round set
9-16 1s+2s+3s set, cross over LH and face anticlockwise and chase ½ way round set back to places
17-24 1s turn RH, cast 1 place (2s step up 3-4), take nearer hands to dance down below 3s, cast up into 2nd place
25-32 1L with 2s at top also 1M with 3s, dance RH across, finish on side lines. 2s+1s+3s turn partners RH

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

Dance Notes

  1-4   3s are active and so the drop to fourth place of the full set by the former 1s has been explicitly choreographed by the deviser. In the third, fifth and seventh repeats:

  1-2   3s set in fourth place of the full set WHILE the former 1s, in third place, stand;

  3-4   3s cross up to third place on opposite sides WHILE the former 1s step down.

19-20 2s step up.


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