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X: 1
T: Wooing Mairi
C: Scott Higgs
O: Ardmore, Pennsylvania
P: Three couple longways set, top couple improper
%R: march, reel
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.56
N: Music: Wooing Mairi (with Mairi's Wedding a suggested alternate tune).
N: Modified A1 part to match the Erratum sticker on the page.
K:
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%%begintext
%% A1:
%% 1-8 Hey on opposite side, 1st couple crossing through middle place to begin.
%% A2:
%% 1-2 1st couple turn with two hands halfway and open to face the 2nd couple.
%% 3-4 1st and 2nd couples circle halfway.
%% 5-8 All three couples circle six halfway. (Ending in 3-1-2 order, 1st couple and 3rd couple improper.)
%% B1:
%% 1-4 1st couple gate up (see notes) with the couple above.
%% 5-8 1st couple gate down with the couple below.
%% B2:
%% 1-4 Set and turn single.
%% 5-8 1st couple half figure eight down through the original 2nd couple.
%%
%% Repeat from progressed positions.
%%endtext
%%center Notes
%%begintext align
%% Gate: Actives join nearest hand with neighbor and turn as couple with that
%% neighbor, with the actives moving forward, up or down the hall as indicated, while
%% their neighbors move backwards so that they rotate around a pivot point between
%% them.  All end where they started the figure.
%%
%% The author notes, "This dance is actually quite relaxed in pace. In order to use up
%% all the music, the tempo should be fairly peppy and the dancers should have space
%% to spread out and make wide gates. If movements are big and sweeping, it can be
%% rewarding to dance; if cramped or too slow, it has little to offer. Alert the first
%% couple that their final half figure eight ends with them dancing *up* the outside.
%% They should maintain this momentum into the heys at the beginning of the next
%% round."
%%
%% The author recommends Mairi's Wedding as an alternate tune to be used in a
%% medley with Wooing Mairi.
%%endtext
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