Intro:
[Pause](8). Bow to your partner, and bow to your corner too(8).
Join hands in a great big ring, circle to the left is what-you-do(16).
Circle-to-the-left to-the-left to-the-left(8), and back to the right you
go(8). When you get back home …
…Swing your own(16).
Promenade, you go two-by-two. Promenade promenade that's what you do.(16)
Intro 2:
[Pause](8). Bow to your partner, and bow to your corner too(8).
Wave to one across the across the way, and Gents Go Swing Her!(16).
[Gents swing their opposite.] Now go back home, and…
…Swing your own(16).
ONEs Arch, All promenade(16).
Kimmswick Express
by
Gene Hubert.
[Square-
keeper]
HEADs/SIDEs go forward and back(8).
HEADs/SIDEs Right-and-Left through(8).
HEADs/SIDEs
circle left 3-places and pass through(6+2).
Dosido the one you meet 1+ΒΌ to
wavy-lines [ladies in the center]
at the SIDES/HEADS.
Bal-the-wave(2+2).
[Swing through
]
All R-allemand(2), Gents
only L-allemand(2), swing partner(8).
Promenade home(16).
Teach 1:04. Dance 3:07.
Nils Fredland | Ethan Hazzard-Watkins, Owen Morrison.
GS Intro/End:
Sides-Face! Grand-Square!: 1-2-3-turn 1-2-3-turn 1-2-3-turn
1-2-3-Reverse (4+4+4+4)
1-2-3-turn 1-2-3-turn 1-2-3-turn
1-2-3-Reverse (4+4+4+4).
(Total: 16+16=32)
Partner-swing(16), [Circle-L, Circle-R OR
Into-the-center twice]
[Thank your partner, thank the set.]
End1:
Corner, L-allemand(8). Partner, R-allemand(8).
Corner, you swing(8). Partner, do-si-do(8); face your
partner…
…pull-by!, Grand Right-and-Left(6); when you see
your partner, Box-The-Gnat(2), and come on back…
pull-by!, Grand Right-and-Wrong(8), till you get back home.
Swing your partner(8). And in to the center with a great big shout(8)!
[Thank your partner, thank the set.]
Ladies-to-Center:
[4x32=128 beats to return to partner]
[Having just swung partner]
“Ladies to center, back to back”(8).
Ladies step to center, and face out.
“Gents go round, the railroad track”(8); gents walk CCW
around the ladies.
“L-Elbow-round the one you swung”(8).
“Swing the next one on the run”(8)
Break-that-Ring:
Circle-to-the-left to-the-left to-the-left(8), and you break that ring
with a corner swing(8).
[New corner].
(Done 4 times. 4×16=64.)
Uptown Downtown
by
TRAD.
[Square-
keeper:
Good for ONEs arch, All promenade
]
Couple-#1 Go Uptown
[move to couple-#3 and join hands-four]
bring'em on down
(4+4).
[Still in hands-four]
Send'em back
[move back to #3's place].
#1's split the #3 couple(4+4); separate.
Go around the Town
[Go outside around back to place](8).
Meet at home
, R-elbow swing, twice around(8).
Corner allemand-Left
ya'go(4), Partner swing(12)
[Everyone] Promenade till ya get back home(8+8).
(Dance: 3:31) Nils Fredland | .
Jonathan King | (recorded) The Great Bear Trio.
Star at the sides
by
Tony Parkes.
[Square: Mixer.]
HEADs/SIDEs go forward and back(8).
HEADs/SIDEs dosido your opposite(8).
Face the
SIDEs/HEADs,
hands-4, circle-L(8). [Same-4] Star-R all the way round(8).
Center-4 Lefthand-Star all the way round(8).
Swing your corner(8); this is your new partner.
Promenade the the Gent's home(16).
Break-that-Ring:
Circle-to-the-left to-the-left to-the-left(8), and you break that ring
with a corner swing(8).
[New corner].
(Done 4 times. 4×16=64.)
Break:
Four-ladies chain [R-Hands-Across Star]
and the gentlemen change [with a]
courtesy turn(4+4). (Done 4 times.
4×8=32; Gents pull-by with Right-hand.)
Corner L-allemand(4), Partner do-si-do(8), Corner L-allemand(4),
Partner Pull-by!, Grand-R-and-L(16),
[When you get home] Swing your own!
Synchro-Break:
[Enter the break by promenading home, Gents face out, ladies in.]
[Better with a non-mixer square. Teach just the
Heads, then just the Sides, then combine. To walk across, (veer) Left,
Fwd, Fwd, Right.]
In wavy circle, Gents-facing-out, Ladies-in, with partner in R-hand.
Balance-the-wave(4), circulate(4).
[Folks who-face-across, walk across, passing R-shoulders, synchromesh.
Folks facing-out, pivot to psn of person who was in R-hand.]
(Done 4 times. 4×8=32.)
Partner swing(8). Corner do-si-do(8), face-your-partner, Pull-by!,
Grand-right-and-left(8)
Synchromesh Square
by
Tony Parkes.
_c3_
4__B
d__2
_1A_
[Square: Mixer. Gents, your current corner will be
your new partner.]
All Four-ladies chain, courtesy turn(8), couple
promenade half-way round(8).
_c1_
2__B
d__4
_3A_
HEADs
pass through, turn alone(8).
_3A_
2__B
d__4
_c1_
Hands-8, circle-L halfway(8).
_1c_
4__d
B__2
_A3_
Diagonally, Gents cross, passing right shoulders(4),
face right and promenade two clicks [CW] around the
circle(4) [to where the two ladies were].
__3_
___2
4___
_1__
Meanwhile, Ladies wait 4-beats, then cross diagonally with
the other ladies(4), to arrive in the gents' arms.
[Gents cross, Synchromesh!
]
Swing your New Partner(8).
_B3_
4__A
c__2
_1d_
Promenade to Gent's home(16).
Simple Pleasures
by
Bob Isaacs.
[Grid-Square-
Keeper:
Go FWD to the
center: You're a big dot. Grid-check.]
Fwd & Back(8) [“In to the center, and back”].
Four-Ladies chain [halfway](8) [“with a courtesy turn ”].
Ladies star-R 3-places(8)
[pass your partner, swing the next].
Nbr swing(8).
Gents star-L 3-places(8)
[“Gents star to your partner”].
Partner swing(8).
[Hands-8] Circle left halfway(8).
[FLIP: “This time” Fwd and Back(8).]
Cal-twirl(4) and pass through to new square(4).
[If there is no couple to pass-through with, then Cal-twirl again.]
Brian Hamshar | Eel House.
JK Contra-Program 19Aug2016