The Cary Cemeteries

for Barbara Youngman, who baked delicious fly cemeteries (currant slices) from her grandmother’s recipe to serve at the Afters-Party for the Cary Valentine’s Dance in 2006.

Original Tune by John Turner © Fiddletree Music 2006

8 x 32S for 3 couples in a 4C set devised by Moira Turner

1 – 4 1^st couple set and cast off one place as 2^nd couple step up.

5 – 8 1^st couple dance right shoulder round 2^nd corner to finish in front of and facing 2^nd corner on the 2^nd corner diagonal.

9-16 The Anvil

9-10 1^st couple with 2^nd corners dance the first 2 bars of a half poussette into 2^nd corner’s partner’s place. All pull back right shoulder so that 1st couple face anti-clockwise round the outside of the set and 2^nd corners face clockwise round the inside

WHILE

1^st corners dance towards each other, then turn right hand on bar 10 to finish on the 2^nd corner diagonal, facing own place, right hands joined (as in the first 2 bars of corners pass and turn).

11-12 1^st couple dance anti-clockwise to the next corner position

WHILE

Corners dance right hands across half way.

13-14 1^st couple with own 1^st corner (from partner’s 2^nd corner position) dance the first 2 bars of a half poussette into 1^st corner’s own place. 1^st couple pull back right shoulder to face clockwise round the inside of the set

WHILE

2^nd corners half turn right hand on bar 13 to finish on the 1^st corner diagonal, facing own position, then dance out to original corner place.

15-16 1^st couple turn right hand to face 1^st corners.

17 – 20 1^st couple dance half diagonal reel of four with 1^st corners, pulling back right shoulder on bar 20 instead of passing left shoulders, to finish back to back facing partner’s 2^nd corner.

21 – 24 1st couple dance half diagonal reel of four with 2^nd corners to finish back to back in 2^nd place in the centre of the set – woman facing up, man facing down. .

25 – 26 Warp and Weft (a figure to return diagonally transposed corners to correct positions)

25 – 26 All advance for one (into two straight lines), retire for one.

27 – 28 2^nd and 3^rd couples half turn two hands on the sideline, opening out to face across the set

WHILE

1^st couple spiral around one another right shoulder to face the opposite sideline.

29 – 30 All advance for one (into two straight lines), retire for one.

31 – 32 2^nd and 3^rd couples half turn partner two hands to change places

WHILE

1^st couple spiral around one another right shoulder to 2^nd place own side.

Repeat the dance having passed a couple.

February, 2006