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+====== LAISTERIDGE LANE ======
+Duple Minor Longways\\
+Historical English Style\\
+Double Progression\\
+Tune: LAISTERIDGE LANE
+<code>
+Begin with dancer in lines of four facing up the hall as follows:
+        ↑ M1 M2 W2 W1 ↑
+Al     Lines of four up a double and fall back.
+A2     That again :
+B1 1-4 All face partner. Change with partner by the right
+       shoulder and turn single left.
+-8 All go back to back with partner.
+       First Couple               Second Couple
+-4 Two-hand turn halfway      Cast up one place.
+-8 and lead down one place.
+-8 Face up and cast down      Two-hand fun
+       another place to new       halfway and lead
+       line of four.              up another place
+                                  to new line of four.
+ </code>
+Video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZButODrLdow\\
+MUSIC: «Kettledrum” from Playford’s First Edition.\\
+Teaching Point 1.\\ Emphasize for dancers that in B2 everyone
+passes £10 couples and then links up with the third. Also emphasize
+the phrasing. There is a full eight beats for the casts.
+Teaching Point 2:\\ This dance is easiest to do when there is an
+even number of couples in the set, in which case there is never
+any waiting out. When the “twos” reach the top, they just do
+their two-hand turn halfway and (instead of leading up) immediately
+cast down to join the ends of new line. When “ones” reach
+the bottom, they do a full two-hand turn (or just wait a moment)
+and lead up into the middle of a new line. With an odd number
+of couples in the set, there will always be one couple waiting at
+the bottom.
+====== RETURN TO LAISTERIDGE LANE ======
+Duple Minor Longways\\
+Historical English Style\\
+Double Progression
+<code>
+Here is an alternative B2 for Laisteridge Lane:
+B2 1-4 First corner people (in second corner positions)
+       change places; then second corner people
+       change place. (This is the first progression.)
+-8 Everyone two-hand turn once around with partner;
+    first couple cast down one place, while
+    second couple leads up one place (into second
+    progressed positions) to form new lines of fo
+    and begin again.</code>
+In the original Laisteridge Lane, B2 is a rapid double progression
+that people seem to like very much when they can master
+it. The problem is that many dancers never quite get it. I had
+resigned myself to the fact that the dance would forever be a
+cultivated taste-not for everyone, until I heard the music for
+the dance on the Old Friends CD. It’s wonderful! It absolutely
+demands that you get up and dance. I thought it was a
+pity to waste all that good musical energy on something that
+was not too accessible—hence this alternative B2. It is still a
+double progression, but it’s a little easier to do.