This is dance #5683 in The Caller's Box, a contra dance database.

Download as JSON

Loughborough Polka

by Geoff Cubitt

Permission: full

FormationBase: Quadruplet
FormationDetail: Twos, fours improper
Progression: 3142

Figures:

A1

(16) With neighbor, dip and dive 4 to place around the square (right-end couples arch to begin) [ones with twos, threes with fours]

A2

(8) [Center four] Star right 1

(8) [Groups of four] Star left 1

B1

(4) As couples, man one and woman two trade with woman three and man four (first corner couples swap)

(4) As couples, man three and woman four trade with woman one and man two

(8) This neighbor promenade counterclockwise 1/4

B2

(8) Grand ladies chain two places

(8) In lines at sides, go forward and back

Calling Notes:

Starts facing partner, holding hand with neighbor (ones with twos, threes with fours)

This is not a mixer.
Appearances: website Cubitt