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**====== Banjo In A Bear Suit ======
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Brooke Friendly and Chris Sackett 2010 Square for Four Couples, partial mixer

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  A1 1-4    Partners face to balance forward and back, then
            change places by turning single over R-shoulder
            while moving past each other to face the next
            around the ring
     5-8    With next person balance forward and back, then
            change places by turning single over R-shoulder
            while moving past each other
  A2 1-4    Actives (the four now on the sides--original head
            couples), take hands in circle of four in center
            of set and balance the ring, then petronella turn
            one place CCW
     5-8    Actives repeat balance and petronella (end next
            to partner [proper] in the middle facing out to
            opposite end)
  B  1-8    R-shoulder parallel heys for four (up and down
            the hall)
     9-12   R-hands across once round at each end
     13-16  Actives two changes of rights and lefts (with
            hands) beginning with partner across the set
            while others (in head places) swing partner (end
            in square formation facing new partner). End with
            new partner (your original opposite), original
            heads at the sides and original sides at the
            heads. After the second time through, you are
            back with original partner across the set from
            where you began.</code>

Music: Banjo in a Bear Suit by Dave Bartley, 2009

Teaching Points:
Head couples are the actives.
At end of Al, heads are at the sides, and sides are at the heads; all are proper, next to original opposite and facing partner across the set.
In B, for the transition between the R-hands across (star) and the rights and lefts, actives are next to partner in the hands across and simply let go to take partners hand to begin rights and lefts.


**Frank Sullivan** is the recording engineer for our Impropriety CDs. He used to tour for Disney, playing banjo in a bear suit. These days he plays pedal steel. Listen for him on the CD that accompanies this book.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WflJiZOntUw  Teaching video with one min dancing at the end

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2j3AowQdhiQ   dance
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