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Yankee Dutch Crossing

by Joseph Pimentel

Permission: search

Based on: "Dutch Crossing" by Ernst van Brakel

FormationBase: Non-longways for 8 couples
FormationDetail: Double Quadruplet; Becket
Progression: Single
Direction: CW
PhraseStructure: 8*8*2

Figures:

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Calling Notes:

8-couple set. Two improper contra lines, side-by-side. Partners are facing neighbors.
In A3/A3, half are X's, doing diagonal heys with hands. Others are O's, doing grand right and left around circle.

Second time through, everything's rotated by 90 degrees, especially the A1/B1 heys.

Edit check: Check this one on video.
Appearances: The Cardinal Collection, p 38
VariantVideos:
All do-si-dos in first half replaced with lines of four, go forward and back
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All rights and lefts swapped in B1 and B2. All do-si-dos in first half replaced with lines of four, go forward and back. D2: In lines of four, go forward and back; circle left 1/4; neighbor do-si-do
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All rights and lefts swapped in B1 and B2. All do-si-dos replaced with lines of four, go forward and back.
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D2: Balance ring of four; circle left 1/4; neighbor do-si-do
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