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STRIDE STATELY

Duple minor longways, 1st couple improper, A Minor, 3/2
Multiple Calculated Figures (Roodman), 1999,
Tune “Polonaise in Minor from Notebook for Anna Magdalena Bach by). S. Bach, 1725,

Al 1-4 1st couple cast below and half figure eight up through
       the 2nd couple to end crossed over in 2nd place (as 2nq
        couple moves up).

A2 1-4 REPEAT, REVERSING ROLES: 2nd couple (now in 1st
       position) cast below and half figure eight up through
       the 1st couple to end crossed over in 2nd place (as 1st
       couple moves up).

B 1-2 All give right hand to partner, pull past, give left hand to
      neighbor, and turn halfway to go into
      
  Women's Slightly Truncated
    Whole Hey for Four                    Men's Half Hey For Four
            (Everything's normal until "→→")

3.6 Women move into the middle           Men continue looping left on the
    to begin heys for four, passing      outside (out of the left-hand wm);
    right shoulders in the middie;

    Women loop left on the out            Men follow women into the hey,
    side;                                 passing right in the middle;
    Women go back into the center         Men loop left on the outside but do
    and pass right again and              not go back;
    then :

 →→ Women make a sharp right              Men, facing into the set, look slightly
    turn in the middle, look for          to the right for the woman in the
    the man in the next duple minor       next duple minor set and give right
    set, and give left hand to            hand to her for...
    him for...
    
  7-8 Men “gate” these women out to re-form the long lines
      (all counterclockwise).

  9-10 Men, with left hand, “gate” your partner clockwise once around.
  11-12 Hold on to partner, face the couple across the set, and
        circle left three quarters.

Video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_Uk-I1fZsXA
NOTES

B 7-8 This “gate” person will be the same every time through the dance.
The critical moment in these heys comes when the women make their sharp right turns to head to their “gate partner”.
Couples waiting out at the top and bottom should not cross over until the very end of the dance, so that they will be available for the first “gating” figure (B 7-8). Then they can “gate” with partner, do a simple two-hand turn halfway, and begin the dance.
You can have everyone identify his/her continuing “first gate” person for easy recognition later. To do this, after walking the A part (when everyone is crossed over), have everyone look diagonally to his/her right two places to acknowledge the person of the opposite sex. That's the person. In the top duple set, 2nd man and 1st woman will have no one to look at. They will have to individually fake the gate the first time. At the bottom, the same is true for 1st man and 2nd woman.

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