Dance And They Lived Happily Ever After 137
Strathspey · 40 bars · 4 couples · Longwise - 4 (Progression: 2341)
- Devised by
- Bessie Smith
- Intensity
- 8000/8110/8404/8000/8888 = 46% (whole dance)
- Formations
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- Back to Back (BKTOBK)
- Hands across - 3 (HX;3P;)
- Hands across - 3 - half (HX;3P;HALF;)
- Arches (ARCHES)
- Hands round - 8 - and back (HR;8P;BACK;)
- Steps
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- Strathspey setting, Strathspey travel
- Published in
- Recommended Music
- Extra Info
- Devised “in honour of the 30th Wedding Anniversary of Alec and Margaret Macwaters, Ottawa Branch.”
Devised “in honour of the 30th Wedding Anniversary of Alec and Margaret Macwaters, Ottawa Branch.”
And They Lived Happily Ever After 4/4L · S40
- 1-8
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1s advance for 2 steps, hold RH, retire & dance DoSiDo
- 9-14
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1s turn LH (3 bars), 1L dances between 2s & casts back to 1st place as 1M casts to 3rd place (2M+3M step up 13-14)
- 15-16
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1s set to opposite dancer (1L+2M, 1M+3L)
- 17-20
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1L+2s dance RH across but 1L casts to 3rd place Men’s side while 2s complete RH across
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while 1M+4s dance LH across, 1M dances out through 3M’s place to meet partner (behind 3M’s place in prom hold facing down)
- 21-24
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1s in prom hold dance down behind 4M & up between 4s to 3rd place & end facing up with nearer hands joined
- 25-32
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1s followed by 4s dance up to top under arches made by 2s+3s, cast on own sides to 4th & 3rd places. 2 3 4 1
- 33-40
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All circle 8H round & back