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| Note: The signature "Trip to Paris" crossing at the start of the dance is | Note: The signature "Trip to Paris" crossing at the start of the dance is | ||
| often too dizzy-making for some dancers. If you need to, fake it! | often too dizzy-making for some dancers. If you need to, fake it! | ||
| + | ====== A Trip to Paris ====== | ||
| + | < | ||
| + | A 1-4 Partners set and change places as they turn single moving forward and | ||
| + | revolving clockwise around each other, keeping to the left. | ||
| + | 5-8 All that again to places. | ||
| + | B 1-8 1st couple cross, go down outside, cross again below 2nd couple and go | ||
| + | up outside to 1st place, skipping. | ||
| + | 9-10 Ist couple turn single. | ||
| + | 11-14 1st corners change places, 2nd corners change places. | ||
| + | 15-16 Circle four-hands around halfway. | ||
| + | 17-18 Ist couple cast down one place while 2nd couple lead up.</ | ||
| + | **A TRIP TO PARIS**\\ | ||
| + | "A passion for travel swept England in the late eighteenth century. | ||
| + | The grand tour of the Continent was considered a must for young men | ||
| + | of means, and less ambitious trips to various corners of the British Isles | ||
| + | were also the rage. Books on travel proliferated. Part of this | ||
| + | eagerness to explore the homeland was attributable to improved | ||
| + | highways and more comfortable coaches." | ||
| + | Naturally, eighteenth-century English dancers danced " | ||
| + | everywhere as well, to Spas, cities, colonies and taverns, from Bath to | ||
| + | Tunbridge, Abbotsbury to York, Georgia to Jamaica, and from the Bell | ||
| + | to the Oaks, | ||
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