The Orange and Green Set

(b) PASS THROUGH:  TOP COUPLES release hands and advance to the centre again, this time passing through each other, ladies left shoulder to left shoulder and gents on the outside. The couples having passed each other, each gent dances to the right behind his partner, while she dances left (in order to reach correct places) and they turn to face the centre again (4 bars).

(c)  REPEAT:  TOP COUPLES repeat (a) and (b) to bring them back to their own places (8 bars).

(d)  LADIES CHAIN:  TOP LADIES dance to centre, chain with right hands and pass each other, give left hands to opposite gents, turn clockwise under their left arms and dance around behind them, the gents turning with the ladies. The ladies then chain again with right hands in the centre and dance back to own places (8 bars).

(b) HOUSE:  All couples adopt the standard hold and the couples that have danced in each circle now dance around each other and back to place (8 bars).

(b) SWING IN THREE:  1st  TOPS LADY forms a tight circle with 2nd tops and they swing in place while 1st TOPS GENT dances around in his own place (8 bars).

(c)  ADVANCE AND BOW: The three dancers that have swung form a straight line, gent in the middle, and dance in place. The lone gent advances towards the lady on his left in the line (2 bars) and bows, and then retires (2 bars). He then repeats this movement towards the lady on his right in the line, i.e. his own partner (4 bars).  8 bars total.

(d) SWING IN FOUR: The lone gent joins the three dancers and they form a tight circle and swing in place, breaking away in time to be back in their respective positions by the eighth bar (8 bars).

(b) LADIES CHAIN:  TOP LADIES dance to centre, chain with right hands and pass each other, give left hands to opposite gents, turn clockwise under their left arms and dance around behind them, the gents turning with the ladies. The ladies then chain again with right hands in the centre and dance back to their own partners (8 bars).

(c) PASS THROUGH AND RETURN TO CIRCLE:  TOP COUPLES repeat (a) with this difference: when returning to their original places the TOP GENTS dance into place and do not turn but remain facing out of the set. Each top gent takes his partner’s left hand in his left hand and the nearest other lady’s right hand in his right hand. The side gents complete each group of four by taking their partner’s left hand in their left hands, and the top ladies’ right hands in their right hands. Each top couple forms a circle with the couple to their left, in which the ladies face in towards each other and the gents are back to back, facing out (8 bars).

(d) CIRCLE AND TURN IN:  Each group of four dances around clockwise (4 bars) and then back anti-clockwise (4 bars) During the last two bars the dancers raise their arms (hands still joined), the gents turn to face in and the joined hands are brought into the centre (8 bars).

(e) DANCE ON SPOT: The two groups dance on the spot in this position (8 bars).

While the ladies are dancing the wheel each gent dances on his own in an anti-clockwise direction half-way around the outside to the opposite side of the set (4 bars), then turns and dances back to meet his partner at home.

As each gent meets his partner he takes her right hand in his right hand and the four gents join left hands in the centre (4 bars). The gents now face anti-clockwise on the inside and the ladies clockwise on the outside.  8 bars. 

(b)  DANCE IN PLACE:  Remaining in this position each couple dances one step towards the centre and one back out again, and repeats this three more times (8 bars).

(c) WHEEL AND TURN THE LADY:  The gents wheel around anti-clockwise and the ladies, moving with them, turn clockwise four times under their partners’ raised arms as they dance around (8 bars).

(b) LADIES CHAIN:  TOP LADIES chain with right hands in the centre, dance over to opposite gents and chain left hands with them (2 bars).  SIDE LADIES do likewise (2 bars).  TOP LADIES chain again in the centre and return to their own partners  (2 bars).  SIDE LADIES do likewise (2 bars).  8 bars total.

(c) REPEAT:  Repeat  (a) and (b) (16 bars).

Then the couples separate. The four ladies (turning) dance in and out again alone as they did in the previous four bars with their partners, while each gent dances in an anti-clockwise direction around to the next lady, turning clockwise as he goes (4 bars).

The four ladies and their new partners join up and the above two movements are repeated three more times until the gents return to their own partners again. (24 bars).  32 bars total. 

(b) SWING:  All four couples swing in place (8 bars).

(c) DANCE IN PLACE AND CHANGE PARTNERS:  Repeat (a). On this occasion the gents remain in place while the ladies dance on, in the opposite direction to the gents. They dance around clockwise to the next gent, turning anti-clockwise as they go (32 bars).

(d) SWING:  All four couples swing in place (8 bars).