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Ian McHaffie

Re: Request for written instructions for Australian Ladies

Oct. 9, 2001, 2:08 p.m. (Message 27811, in reply to message 27802)

A comment (and question) on Australian Ladies  .

The following is partly from memory.

In addition to the two completely different versions of Australian 
Ladies -- one a 4-couple dance (Hay) and  one a 3-couple dance 
(Campbell) -- I recall another set of instructions for the better 
known (at least around Toronto) Bob Campbell version.

The first version I saw -- in typescript on a single page -- had 
different instructions for the corners in bars 17 - 32.  While the 
dancing couple were doing their "cross and cast to the right" four 
times,  the corners followed the same track as they do in the final 
version, but with changes of hands. That is, the corners' figure was 
"rights and lefts", with two bars of setting between each travelling 
movement. By the time the dance reached formal publication, the 
handing was changed to right hands for all the changes by the corners.

Does anyone else recall this change? Or have I got the Hay version 
(which I have not got) confused with the Campbell version?

Ian McHaffie
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