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T: Storrow House
C: Ed Wilfert
O: Marston's Mills, Massachusetts
P: Duple minor longways
%R: waltz
Z: Collected and edited 2014 by John Chambers <jc:trillian.mit.edu>
B: GEMS The Best of the Country Dance and Song Society Diamond Jubilee Music, Dance and Song Contest 1993 p.52
N: Music: Storrow House
K:
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%%begintext
%%A1:
%% 1-2 1st man set to 2nd woman.
%% 3-4 1st man and 2nd woman gypsy right shoulder.
%% 5-6 1st man and 1st woman gypsy left shoulder.
%% 7-8 1st man move through original place and cast into 2nd man's place.
%% -- while --
%% 5-8 2nd couple back-to-back, 2nd man falling back into 1st man's place.
%%A2:
%% 1-2 1st woman set to 1st man.
%% 3-4 1st woman and 1st man gypsy right shoulder.
%% 5-6 1st woman and 2nd man gypsy left shoulder.
%% 7-8 1st woman move through her original place and cast cast to 2nd woman's place.
%% -- while --
%% 5-8 2nd woman and 1st man back-to-back, 2nd woman falling back into 1st woman's place.
%%B1:
%% _1-2_ Turn partner with two hands halfway, open out with back to the
%% _____ center of the minor set. Take hands four in a back ring.
%% _
%% _3-4_ Balance right and left in the ring.
%% _5-6_ Turn neighbor with two hands halfway, into the back ring.
%% _7-8_ Balance right and left in the ring.
%% _9-10 Lead out with neighbor.
%% 11-12 Turn and lead back in.
%% 13-14 1st man and 2nd woman change places.
%% 15-16 2nd man and 1st woman change places.
%%
%%     Optional B2
%%B2:
%% _1-12 Join in ballroom position and waltz once around the other couple.
%% 13-16 Join up in a circle and set twice.
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%%center Notes
%%begintext align
%% The author notes that the dance is for intermediate to advanced dancers, and
%% states: "The idea behind the dance is that one dancer initiates movement that
%% spreads to all the rest, one by one, until each of the dancers in the minor set has
%% danced with each of the other three, and that all four meet together fullin in the
%% action."
%%
%% The dance is dedicated to Helen Storrow, founder of the American Branches of the
%% English Folk Dance Soceity (now the Country Dance and Song Society).
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