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Belfast Duck
Author: Douglas Kennedy - CDM2Formation: Longways, duple proper.
Difficulty: 1
Style: English
| A: | Circle left in fours, 8 steps; circle right. |
| B: | Take inside hands and lead down room 2 slow walking steps (start on the outside foot); take both hands and do 2 chassés (sidesteps) down. Ditto up the room. Ditto down the room. Ditto up the room with 1s making an arch and moving up, 2s passing under. (That's the 'duck', I presume.) |
| Summary of B - |
| down 2, chassé 2, up 2, chassé 2. |
| down 2, chassé 2, ones arch and twos go under. |
Vigorous if step-hop; gentle if slow walk or saunter.
There's a tendency for the whole set to move down the room.
Music: hornpipes
Thumbnail: Circles, then lead and chassé down, ditto up, ditto down, duck through arch.