SET FORMATION   SWEETHEART  WALTZ
       © 2008    Larry E.Taylor

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    Dance in waltz hold.
    An eight-bar introduction of music is often played for the sixteen-bar,
               non-progressive pattern.
    Couples take positions around the perimeter of the dance floor with gents facing
              forward (anticlockwise) and ladies facing backward (clockwise) in
              the line of dance (lod).
    The pattern is also danced free; that is, dance in the available space as other dancers
              dance either the same or another waltz pattern.
    Gents dance forward on the left foot and ladies dance forward on the right foot.
    Steps:  Part of the sixteen-bar, pattern is danced with a HESITATION STEP; step in
             the lod with the leading-foot then bring the trailing-foot beside the leading-foot
             with a TAP-PAUSE; weight is only partially transferred to the tapping-foot during
             the pause; step in the lod with the pausing-foot then bring the trailing-foot beside
             the leading foot with another tap-pause.
    Bar counts (quantities of measures) for patterns are shown in bold.
    Documentation is based upon a video workshop led by Pat Murphy.
    Edition of December 25, 2008 Contact larryetaylor@hotmail.com 
 
  SET FORMATION   WALTZES (Variable BARS)
All couples: REPEAT "MARKER" step in the lod with the leading-foot then bring the trailing-foot beside the
           leading-foot with a tap-pause1; weight is only partially transferred to
           the tapping-foot during the pause; step in the lod with the pausing-foot
           then bring the trailing-foot beside the leading foot with another tap-pause1;
           step in the lod with the pausing-foot then bring the trailing-foot diagonally
           outside the lod1;  (this step to the side begins a box-like pattern danced
           alongside the lod;) close feet together and step against the lod and close;
           step back into the lod and close; (the box is danced without the
           HESITATION STEP.)1
repeat the preceding four patterns4;
dance one anticlockwise turn in-place (down-2-3)4;
with the gent again dancing forward and the lady dancing backward, step in the lod
          1-2-3dip1;
pushing off with the 3dip-foot, dance against the lod 1-2-31;
again dance in the lod then keeping only hands on the waist behind open up to face the
           center, dance in-place then return to the lod and take waltz hold (that is, "forward
           side back then forward side together")2;
repeat from   REPEAT "MARKER"  as desired.

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