GLENGARRIFF (SHORT) SET | |
© 2008
Larry E. Taylor |
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This set, also known as the GLENGARRIFF POLKA SET, is from County Cork, Ireland. | |
Gents dance forward on the left foot and ladies begin forward on the right foot. | |
Bar counts for dance patterns are shown in bold. | |
The total bar count for each Figure includes an eight-bar introduction of music. | |
First Side couple is on the right of the first top couple. | |
Swing in waltz hold. | |
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FIGURE 1 -- POLKAS (96 BARS) PASS THROUGH |
Dance an ordinary polka step (down-2-3). | |
All couples: | take hands in a circle and advance and retire twice8. |
Top couples: | slide in and out once (1-2, 1-2) in waltz hold4; |
dance at home (one clockwise revolution)4; | |
pass through twice : | |
first top couple take right-hand-in-right and pass through second top4; | |
at opposite, partners turn into one another to face into the set; | |
second top couple take right-hand-in-right and pass through first top4; | |
at home, partners again turn into one another and take waltz hold. | |
All couples: | quarterhouse in waltz hold16; |
full house in waltz hold8. | |
Side couples: | repeat from 40. |
FIGURE 2 -- POLKAS (96 BARS) DOUBLE POLKA |
Dance an ordinary polka step (down-2-3). | |
All couples: | take hands in a circle and advance and retire twice8. |
Top couples: | slide in and out once (1-2, 1-2) in waltz hold4; |
dance at home (one clockwise revolution)4; | |
ladies chain: ladies give right hands at waist-height to one another in the center | |
then left hands at waist height to the opposite gent (who has danced into | |
his partner's position); ladies dance around the gent and he follows (no | |
arch); chain right-to-right in the center then take waltz hold with original | |
partner; couples dance once clockwise to-place8. | |
All couples: | slide in and out once (1-2, 1-2) in waltz hold4; |
still in waltz hold, house halfway around to opposite4; | |
repeat the preceding in/out and house halfway8; | |
full house in waltz hold8; | |
Side couples: | repeat from 40. |
FIGURE 3 -- POLKAS (96 BARS) DOUBLE SLIDE |
Dance an ordinary polka step (down-2-3). | |
All couples: | take hands in a circle and advance and retire twice8. |
Top couples: | slide in and out once (1-2, 1-2) in waltz hold4; |
dance at home (one clockwise revolution)4; | |
repeat the preceding in/out and dance at home8. | |
All couples: | slide in and out once (1-2, 1-2) in waltz hold4; |
still in waltz hold, house halfway around to opposite4; | |
repeat the preceding in/out and house halfway8; | |
full house in waltz hold8; | |
Side couples: | repeat from 40. |
FIGURE 4 -- POLKAS (160 BARS) |
Dance an ordinary polka step (down-2-3). | |
All couples: | take hands in a circle and advance and retire twice8. |
Top couples: | house each other in waltz hold8; |
slide in and out once (1-2, 1-2) in waltz hold4; | |
still in waltz hold, house halfway around to opposite4; | |
repeat the preceding in/out and house halfway8; | |
house each other in waltz hold8; | |
advance and retire once with gent's right arm at lady's waist behind and lady's | |
left hand on gent's right shoulder4; | |
ladies crossover right-shoulder-to-right-shoulder, give left hand to opposite | |
gent at waist-level and couples dance one anticlockwise turn4; | |
repeat the advance and retire once as above4; | |
ladies repeat the preceding crossover -- except turn with partners4. | |
All couples: | slide in and out once (1-2, 1-2) in waltz hold4; |
still in waltz hold, house halfway around to opposite4; | |
repeat the preceding in/out and house halfway8; | |
full house in waltz hold8; | |
Side couples: | repeat from 72. |
FIGURE 5 -- POLKAS (208 BARS) |
Dance an ordinary polka step (down-2-3). | |
All couples: | take hands in a circle and advance and retire twice8. |
Top couples: | first top couple: |
house inside the set in waltz hold8; | |
slide in and out once (1-2, 1-2) in waltz hold4; | |
dance at home (one clockwise revolution)4; | |
All couples: | ladies dance inside the set to the next gent on the right2; all new |
swing partners in waltz hold6; | |
New partners: | quarterhouse in waltz hold16; |
full house in waltz hold8. | |
All couples: | repeat from with first side, second top then second side couple leading144. |