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Impropriety

Longways duple minor
Brook Friendly and Chris Sackett
Note: Couples become proper and improper as dance progresses.
Ignore your “propriety”!

Recording: impropriety-067_bn10ns-01.mp3.zip
impropriety-050-imp117.mp3.zip
impropriety-ff-ti08.mp3.zip

 8   2s gate 1s down 1.25 into lines facing down
 8  Lines down a dbl and back
 8  2s lead 1s out to sides, change places with either a gating or California twirl
    movement, the 1s at bottom going outside
 8  Lead back in and 1s cast, then 1/2 figure 8 around 2s (did they move up?)
 8  2s gate 1s up right round, ready to start over.

Impropriety

Brooke Friendly and Chris Sackett 1999
Duple Minor Longways

Al 1-4 Neighbors gate turn once and a quarter (1s in and down to begin)
       to end in line of 4 facing down
A2 1-4 Lines lead down and fall back
BI 1-2 Neighbors lead out the sides 
   3-4 Neighbors turn as a couple with 2s turning under 
   5-6 Neighbors lead in
   7-8 Is cast off while 2s lead up
B2 1-4 Is half figure of 8 up through 2s 
   5-8 Neighbors gate once round (1s in and up to begin) 
Repeat with the 1s on opposite sides. Each time through the dance

Video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VyC0wQSy3QU
Music: Millisons Jegge, Playford 1651

ins_impropriety.txt · Last modified: 2025/03/14 16:13 by mar4uscha