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