Pretty Baby Quadrille

Formation: Four couples in a square formation.
Music: “Pretty Baby”, E-Z 725

Download RTF file: Pretty Baby Quadrille

Prompts:
Intro or
57-64   – – – -;, Heads to the middle and back;
    1-8   – – – -; Heads Right and Left Thru;
  9-16   – – – -; Sides to the middle and back;
17-24   – – – -; Sides Right and Left Thru;
25-32   – – – -; All join hands and Circle Left;

33-40   – – – -; – – Corner Swing;
41-48   – – – -; – – – Promenade;
49-56   – – – -; – – – -;
57-64   – – – -; Heads to the middle and back;

Description:
    1-8   Head couples dance forward 3 steps and touch, then backup 3 steps and touch.
  9-16   Heads Right and Left Thru (dancers right pull by with the dancer they are facing
and then courtesy turn with their partner beside them).
17-24   Side couples dance forward 3 steps and touch, then backup 3 steps and touch.
25-32   Sides Right and Left Thru (see beats 9-16).

33-40   All eight dancers join hands and Circle to the Left for 8 steps.
41-48   Corner pairs face each other and Swing ending with the lady on the right.
49-64   The same corner pairs Promenade once around the set ending at the man’s home.

Repeats: Repeat as is the second time. For the third and fourth repetitions activate the
Sides first and then the Heads.

Note: The music is in two-step rhythm. It has a lazy floating feeling. Suggest to the
dancers that they take small steps.

Choreography by: Jerry Helt, Cincinnati, Ohio
Source: Printed in Dancing For Busy People, page 124
Usage: This is a good dance to use when first teaching Right and Left Thru.

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