This is dance #7867 in The Caller's Box, a contra dance database.

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Lepidoptera for Suzanna

by Luke Donforth

Permission: full

FormationBase: Duple Minor - Becket
Progression: Single
Direction: CCW

Figures:

A1

(4) Pass through across (NR)

(4) Single file promenade clockwise around the major set to N2

(4) Circle left 1/2 [with N2]

(4) Partner roll away (M roll L, W side-step R)

A2

(8) Butterfly double figure eight 1/2:

(2) Women pass right

(4) Women cast clockwise || Men pass left

(2) Men cast counterclockwise

(8) In long lines, go forward and back

B1

(8) Men allemande left 1

(8) Hey 1/2 (PR;WL;N2R;ML)

B2

(8) Partner right shoulder round

(8) Partner swing

Calling Notes:

Not called as of 6/2025. Please contact Luke Donforth at calling.luke@gmail.com if you call this.

The "Butterfly double half figure eight" is not a double half figure eight, though everyone is walking the path of a half figure eight. Here's the original text: "This is different than the double half figure 8 where the 2s cast off and follow the 1s, and not just because you're on the side of the set with your partner and thus doing your part of a 1/2 figure 8 with neighbor. In this move, everyone is going to do their part of a 1/2 figure 8 around abstract positions rather than people (because the people are all moving). The women go in first (propelled from the roll away they led), passing Right shoulders. After they clear the middle, the men go in passing left shoulder. Everyone should end up in the spot of their opposite gendered neighbor, having gone around the spot of their same gendered neighbor."
Appearances: website Donforth