Haystack Roundabout
Introduction
Author:
Michael Barraclough (c1970)
Formation:
Triple circle with extras, (mixer)
Music:
32-bar jigs or reels
Published:
Country Bumpkin (Michael Barraclough)
Choreography
A1
1-4
Centers chasée counterclockwise with outside partner
5-8
Chasée back
A2
1-4
Centers and outside partner right-arm turn
5-8
Centers and inside partner left-arm turn
B1
1-8
Centers and inside partner pousette into the center and back twice
B2
1-8
Cednters, joined by the spare people in the middle, single file clockwise under a tunnel ofg two-handed arches made by the others until the music stops (when the archers capture a new partner and those not captures go to the middle)
© Michael Barraclough, 2017
Notes
Notes
1
This is a good dance when there is a significant gender inbalance. It is best done with one man with two ladies or one lady with two men, but not a mixture of both. Each memeber of the trio becomes part of one of 3 concentric circleds. The inside and outside circles being made up of people of the same gender and the middle circle being made up of people of the other gender. An y people of the same gender as the middle circle who do not have partners should stand in the middle of the set.
2
As in any ninepins type dance, the music should stop at random somewhere in the B2 or even in the next A1.
3
Haystack Folk Club was the ceilidh (folk song and dance) club at London University which ran from Sep 1969 for about 5 years, and where I started calling regulalry. The dance is a mishmash of various other dances, eg Rebecca's Roundabout, Lights Out, Devil's Ropundabout etc.
4
For a long time I used to carry a bar of soap with me as a p[resent for the eprson who was left in the middle the most times!
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