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CONTRA DANCE II
FORMATION: Four couples in quadrille position.
(:l-8:) I. (a) Hands joined, walking steps clockwise and counter­clockwise.
9-16
9-16 17-24
17-24 (:25-32:)
(b)  Head couples, shoulder-hip position, swing in place; men lift their partners high in the air, leaving the women in center facing out
Side couples do the same.
(c)  Men, 4 walking steps clockwise and 4 claps to opposite women; swing should-hip position, leaving men in center,
facing out
(d)  Women, 4 walking steps clockwise and 4 daps; partners swing. Couples are now in opposite place.
Grand right and left, honoring partner, half way around and at the end.
Partners, right hands joined, walking steps clockwise; left hands joined, walking steps coonter-clockwise. Women, hands joined, circle clockwise and counter­clockwise, walking steps. Men's circle, the same. Same as ignre I. (b) (c) (d) repeated in all figures.
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