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======Chelsea Reach ======

4 couple square

Dancing Master 3rd edition 1665

Recording: {{ ::music:chelsea_reach-bnah5-13.zip |}}\\
{{ ::music:chelsey_reach-bsbnd09.mp3.zip |}}\\
Video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BWS5rOYIPZo

<code>
Part 1
A1    1-4  Taking inside hands, partners forward a double into the
           center and back.
      5-8  Partners face, all slow set and honor right, then left.
A2    1-4  All lead away a double away from the set and back.
      5-8  Partners face, all slow set and honor right, then left.
B1    1-4  Side couples meet, turn towards partner, then face
           out (standing hack to back with opposite) while head
           couples three-quarters gypsy right, pass through corner
           place and face side couples, forming lines across the
           hall.
      5-6  Facing couples circle four halfway end facing up and
           down.
      7-8  Opposite people change places by right hands, and all
           turn left, into —
B2    1-4  Same four left hands across, skipping.
      5-8  Partners turn two hands to original place.
B3    1-4  Head couples meet, turn towards partner, then face out
           (standing back to back with opposite) while side couples
           three-quarters gypsy right, pass through corner place
           and face head couples, forming lines up and down the
           hall.
      5-6  Facing couples circle four halfway ending facing across
           the hall.
      7-8  Opposite people change places by right hands, and all
           turn left, into ——
B4    1-8  Repeat B2. 
Part 2
A1,2  1-16 Partners side (Cecil Sharp style), slow set and honor
           right, then left. That again.
B1    1-2  Partners take two hands, and men place women into the
           center of the set.
      3-4  Letting go hands, partners change places, passing right
           shoulder,
      5-8  Partners change places again (passing right shoulder),
           then women right hands across halfway while men skip
           counterclockwise halfway round the set, meeting part-
           ner in opposite place.
B2    1-8  Repeat A2 to places, substituting left for right (Women
           place men, partners change by left shoulder twice, men
           left hands across halfway women skip clockwise halfway
           to original places).
Part 3
A1,2  1-16 Partners arm right, slow set and honor right, then left.
           That again, arming left.
B1    1-4  Corners, joining right hands, lead out a double, fall back
           and face each other, to begin —
      5-8  Four changes of grand right and left, skipping.
B2    1-8  Repeat A2 to original place.</code>
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