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====== Tammy ======

Choreography:  	 Sharon Green, 2013\\
**Tune:	Tammy** (3/2 G Major),  Jonathan Jensen, 2013\\
Dances from the Greenery\\
4-couple square mixer
<code>
A1 1-8	Grand Square:
   1-2	Head couples forward to meet, then set as they turn alone ¼ to face 
         Partner while Side couples face Partner, fall back, & set as they turn 
         alone ¼ to face Opposite
   3-4	Taking inside hands with Opposites, Heads fall back to nearest side place 
         & set turning to face Opposite while Sides meet Opposites in head places 
         & set turning to face Partner in the other head place
   5-8	New Heads meet and fall back to original side places while new
 	Sides face and fall back, then meet original Partners in head places
 	 	 
A2 1-8	Reverse Grand Square: All that again, but starting with Head couples 
        facing Partner and falling back while Side couples lead forward to 
         meet one another
 	 	 
B 1-2	Corners turn by the right hand once around
  3-4	Corners turn single right, flowing into
  5-7	Partners turn by the left hand once around
  8	All step right and honor
  9-10	Women, dance right-shoulder (cl.w.) past partner into next woman's place*
  11-12	New partners, right-shoulder gypsy once round [End facing one another]
  13-14	New partners, step-setting as in Fair & Softly (men left & right, women 
         right & left), ending facing one another, ready to face into the set 
         and turn away
  15-16	New partners turn single away (men turn left, women right)
</code> 	 	 
* In B 9-10, as the woman curves to pass her partner, her partner may briefly parallel her track, dancing clockwise and curving back home to meet his new partner for their right-shoulder gypsy once round.\\

Video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tyuwCnX16N0 	 	 
===== Tammy Modified for Older Adults =====

After the Grand Square and Reverse Grand Square, substitute the following 
figures for the B section:
<code> 	 	 
B	1-4	Corners turn by the right hand once around, flowing into
 	5-8	Partners turn by the left hand once around
 	9-10	Women dance clockwise into next woman's place, passing current 
                  partner by right-shoulder
 	11-14	New partners, right-shoulder gypsy once round (or two-hand turn)
 	15-16	New partners, step and honor
</code>
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