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The Red Bull
Marjorie Heffer and William Porter in 1932
Published in “Maggot Pie”.
Square for four couples with no progression.
Tune: Red Bull
Part I. A 1-2 Partners give both hands and slip four steps away from the centre. 3—4 Partners cast away from each other—the men to their right, the women to their left—and meet their neighbours. 5-6 Neighbours give both hands and slip four steps towards the centre. 7—8 All turn single. A2 1—4 Partners gypsy clockwise, facing inward, and move round so that each man finishes outside the couple on his leit, facing the centre, and each woman finishes inside the couple on her right, facing outward. 5-8 The women give both hands to the men who are facing them and Poussette out and back a double, the pairs finishing side by side, proper, in progressed places, B2 1-4 Present partners gypsy clockwise, facing inward, and progress as in Bl, so that partners face each other. 5-8 The women give both hands to partners and poussette out and back, couples ending side by side, proper, in opposite places. Part II. As in Part II B1 1—2 1st and 3rd couples move forward and meet. 3-4 Ist couple with 4th man and 2nd woman take hands ang fall back 5 double, wh: the other four do likewise, 5-6 1st man and 2nd Woman, and 4th man anq 1st woman, raising inside hands to make arches, change places with their Opposites, who, holding inside hands, pass under the arches. 7—8 All turn quickly, change hands, and again change places, 1st man and 2nd woman and 4th man and 1st woman now passing under the arches made by the opposite pairs. B2 1-2 2nd and 4th couples meet, while 1st and 3rd couples return to places and face partners. 3—4 2nd couple with 1st man and 3rd woman take hands and fall back a double, while the other four do likewise. 5—8 The same movement as in Bl, bars 5—8, the pairs in the left-hand file passing first under the arches formed by their opposites. All finish as at the end of Part I Part 11, As in Part 1. B1 1-4 Ist ang 2nd men, and Similarly 3rd and 4th, Men, Move forward a double along converging lines ang fall hack into each other’s Places, 1st and 3rd men Passing respectively in front of and beyond 2nd ang 4th Men; while the Women, in corresponding Pairs, move out a double along converging lines and fall back into each other’s Places, 1st and 3rd women Passing in front of and beyond 2nd and 4th women. 1st and 3rd couples have now progressed one place clockwise, the others one place counter-clockwise. 5—8 Partners turn once round. B2 1—4 1st and 4th men do as Ist and 2nd men did in BI, bars 1—4, while 3rd and 2nd men do as 3rd and 4th men did, 1st and 4th women do as Ist and 2nd women did, and 3rd and 2nd women do as 3rd and 4th women did, all couples now ending in their own original places. 5-8 Partners turn once round.
Video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4aerZ79UPbY
Not many dances were devised in the 1920s and 30s.
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