This is dance #982 in The Caller's Box, a contra dance database.

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Up and Down and Back and Forth

by Peter Foster

Permission: full

FormationBase: Duple Minor - Improper
Progression: Double
PhraseStructure: 8*8*2

Figures:

A1

(4) Circle left 1/2

(12) N1 neighbor swing
A2

(4) Pass through across (PR)

(12) N0 neighbor swing
B1

(8) In long lines, go forward and back

(8) Ones swing
B2

(6) In a line of four, go down the hall (W2-M1-W1-M2) [with N1]

(2) Bend the line; face N1

(8) Dip and dive 2:

(4) Ones arch, twos dive [with N1]

(4) Twos arch, ones dive [with N2]
2A1

(4) Circle left 1/2 [with N3]

(12) N3 neighbor swing
2A2

(4) Pass through across (PR)

(12) N2 neighbor swing
2B1

(8) In long lines, go forward and back

(8) Twos swing
2B2

(6) In a line of four, go up the hall (M1-W2-M2-W1)

(2) Bend the line; face N3

(8) Dip and dive 2:

(4) Twos arch, ones dive [with N3]

(4) Ones arch, twos dive [with N4]
Appearances: website Foster