This is dance #16206 in The Caller's Box, a contra dance database.

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Has the NyQuil Kicked in Yet?

by Luke Donforth

Permission: full

FormationBase: Duple Minor - Improper
FormationDetail: Magic wave (1R,2L, men face down)
Progression: Single

Figures:

A1

(4) Balance magic wave (1R,2L, men face down)

(4) Ones pull by right, turning counterclockwise 1/2 || Twos pull by left, turning clockwise 1/2

(4) Balance magic wave (1R,2L, women face down)

(4) Ones pull by right, turning counterclockwise 1/2 || Twos pull by left, turning clockwise 1/2

A2

(4) Neighbor balance [M1+W2 with N1, W1+M2 with N0]

(12) Neighbor swing [M1+W2 with N1, W1+M2 with N0]

B1

(8) [Women] Woman two around two and woman one cut through [with N1]

(8) Partner swing

B2

(8) In long lines, go forward and back

(8) Women gypsy left 1 & 1/2; face up || Men face down

(0) Form magic wave

Calling Notes:

Not called as of 2019. Please contact Luke Donforth at calling.luke@gmail.com if you call this.

Right. This one's going to take some explaining.

To form the "magic wave", start from improper. Men face down. Women face up. Ones take right hands with each other. Twos take left hands with each other. Take remaining hand with neighbor you're facing. (For M1+W2, this is current neighbor. For W1+M2, this is a previous neighbor.) The end result will be one ladder-like wave that has alternating curves.

The wave gets its name from the MWSD challenge square dance formation, the Magic Box. Search for "magic" in this webpage for details: https://www.all8.com/sd/calling/findsex.htm

In the second A1 move, you let go of hands as you start to pull by to each spin away from partner. Author describes it as "Mini-dip, stolen from swing dancing: pull by, passing back to back while turning 180; catch same hands."

Then in the A2, everyone swings the person they were facing at the beginning of the dance and swings them. This causes an offset swing, such that the women in the original hands-four are above the original men in the hands-four. This lets the women do the chase figure down around the men.
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