Ten Pretty Girls

Formation: Any comfortable number of dancers side by side holding hands or arms around adjacent waist and arranged in lines facing counter-clockwise around the hall like spokes of a wheel.
Music: “Ten Pretty Girls” on RCA LP, “Folk Dances For Fun” #1624, FDCD-058, or many
other recordings. It can also be danced to other tunes such as “Molly Malone” on Global 511.

Download RTF file: Ten Pretty Girls

Prompts:
Intro or
57-64   – – – -; – Right forward, side;
    1-8   – – behind, side, close; – Left forward, side;
  9-16   – – behind, side, close; – Slow strut four;
17-24   – – – -; Right brush forward and back;
25-32   – – stamp three; – Left forward, side;

33-40   – – behind, side, close; – Right forward, side;
41-48   – – behind, side, close; – Slow strut four;
49-56   – – – -; Left brush forward and back;
57-64   – – stamp three; – Right forward, side;

Description:
    1-8   Beginning with their right foot, dancers point forward, point side, and then quickly step behind their left foot, step to the side on their left foot, and close their right foot beside their left.
  9-16   Using their left foot, dancers point forward, point side, and then step behind their right foot, step to the side on their right foot, and close their left foot beside their right.
17-24   Beginning with their right foot, dancers strut forward in four slow steps (R, L, R, L).
25-32   With their weight on their left foot, dancers brush the right foot forward while leaning slightly back, then brush the right foot back while leaning slightly forward. Dancers return to a vertical stance and do three light stamps in place (R, L, R, pause).

33-40   The whole sequence is now repeated beginning with the left foot: point forward, point side, step behind left on right, step to the side on right, close left to right.
41-48   Beginning with the right dancers point forward, point side, step on right behind left, step to the side on left, close right to left.
49-56   Beginning with the left foot, dancers strut forward in four slow steps (L, R, L, R).
57-64   With weight on the right, dancers brush their left foot forward, then back, then stamp three times.

Choreography by: Michael Herman
Source: Presented by Stew Shacklette at BDPLS 2007
Usage: This is a classic Folk Dance appealing to any age group.

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