This is dance #19376 in The Caller's Box, a contra dance database.

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Allemande Swist {Merrill version}

by Traditional

interpreted by Kate van Winkle Keller and George Fogg

Permission: full

FormationBase: Triple Minor
FormationDetail: Proper
Progression: Single

Figures:

A1

(8) Man one and woman two colonial-style allemande clockwise 1

(8) Man one and woman two colonial-style allemande counterclockwise 1
A2

(8) Woman one and man two colonial-style allemande clockwise 1

(8) Woman one and man two colonial-style allemande counterclockwise 1
B1

(4) Ones lead down

(4) Ones turn alone

(4) Ones lead up

(4) Ones cast off
B2

(16) [Ones and twos] Square through 4 (PR;NL;PR;NL)
Appearances: New Country Dances from Maine 1795, p 35