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Alasdair Graham

Alasdair Graham

Re: Strip The Willow (square)

May 16, 2006, 1:37 p.m. (Message 45297, in reply to message 45295)

Slightly more detailed instructions (reproduced below) can be found on this 
site http://homepage.ntlworld.com/greenery/BarnDances/ToC.html
Strip the Willow Square
square. Difficulty: 2

  a.. A1: Heads take ballroom hold, galop across 8 steps, men pass back to 
back; galop back, women passing back to back.
  b.. A2: Sides ditto.
  c.. B1 and B2: Head men strip the willow using elbow turns: turn each 
other 3/4 round by right elbow, turn the woman they're facing (that's the 
one on their right when they started) by the left elbow, turn each other, 
the woman who was opposite them, each other, the woman who was on their 
left, each other, own partner. Always right arm to each other, left to 
others.
  d.. C1: All circle left and right.
  e.. C2: Balance twice and swing partner.
 Music: 48-bar jigs

Some people leave off C1 and C2.

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