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Sixty years young

(for Christine Bower by Charles Bolton 9.10.99)

3 couple set

 
A 1 The top couple casts to the middle as the middles lead up (4)
the bottom couple casts up to the middle as the middles lead down (4)
The lines take hands: fall back a double and come forward (8). ·

A2. Couple 2 (at the top) begin a steady chain (4 changes, 4 steps each) 
to the bottom of the set, starting by changing places with partner by 
the RH, facing down and changing with the middle couple by the LH as 
the bottom couple back to back partner and face up (8), completing 
the chain by changing with the bottom couple by the RH, and with 
partner by the LH, and turning L to face again, 
proper at the bottom as the new top couple back to back and face up1(8). 
(order is 312)

B1 The top two couples, facing up, half double figure 8 (tops casting, 
middles crossing up), and the tops cast out again to the ends of a line 
of four facing up, middles moving up to stand in middle place as couple 2 , 
at the bottom, cross Lsh and move individually up the room to stand on the 
ends of the line of four to make a line of six (8). (from the L the line 
should be:- W2, W3, W1 , M1, M3, M2). The line leads up, falls back, and 
all face the centre of the line (8).

B2 Progressive grand chain: couple 1 start by changing by the RH in the 
middle of the line, LH to the next and so on. On reaching the end of the 
line, dancers move down individually on their own side to reform the set, 
the last couple crossing RH and standing in top place (12): all face down 
and tum single down and away (4).

(progression 231)