DoSaDo and Face the Sides Quadrille

Formation: Four couples in a Square formation
Music: “Jackson’s Breakdown”, “Tipperary”, LS E-32 or “Gal From Arkansas”, Windsor 4907
This quadrille requires a piece of music that has 96 beats (2 x 48 beats) per sequence.

Download RTF file: Dosado and Face Sides

Prompts:
Intro or
89-96   – – – -, Heads Forward and Back;
    1-8   – – – Heads; DoSaDo and Face the Sides;
  9-16   – – – -; Circle Four Once Around;
17-24   – – – -; Split Two Around One to a Line;
25-32   – – – -; – – Forward and Back;
33-40   – – – -; Center Four Star By the Right;
41-48   – – – -; Turn Corner by the Left Right Once-and-a-Half;

49-56   – – – -; Others Star Right Back to the Corner;
57-64   – – – -; – – Balance and Swing;
65-80   – – – -; – – – -; – – – -; – – – Promenade;
81-96   – – – -; – – – -; – – – -; Heads Forward and Back;

Description:
    1-8   Head or Side Couples dance Forward and Back.
  9-16   Same four DoSaDo the opposite person and then turn to face their corner dancer.
17-24   Centers dance with the outside pair they are now facing and Circle four once around.
25-32   The outside pairs slide apart to allow the inside pairs to move between them. The insides then separate and individually walk in a small loop around one outside dancer to make a line of four facing the side walls.
33-40   The lines of four go Forward and Back
41-48   The center four dancers make a Right-Hand Star and turn it once around.
49-56   Corner pairs join left arms and turn once-and-a-half around.
57-64   The other four dancers now go into the center to turn a Right-Hand Star once around.
65-80   Corner pairs Balance for four or eight counts and then Swing for the remaining twelve or eight counts.
81-96   Those corner pairs Promenade once around the set and become new partners.

Repeats: In a 4 x 48 measure tune you repeat the routine twice for the Heads and then twice for the Sides.

Notes: If you do not want to use a Balance in your program, a DoSaDo can be substituted for counts 65-72 and then Swing during counts 73-80.

Choreography by: Ted Sannella (Written in February, 1954 for a dance exhibition at the 1953 New England Fold Festival.)
Source: Dancing For Busy People, page 129; also printed in CDP Journal, January 1994
Usage: See the variation below if a 96 beat piece of music is not available.

DoSaDo and Face the Sides Quadrille Variation (BDP)

The original figure can be adapted to fit the common 64 beat piece of music.
Also see “Seeing Stars Quadrille” for another 64 beat variation.

Prompts:
Intro or
57-64   – – – -; Heads DoSaDo and Face the Sides;
    1-8   – – – -; Circle Four Once Around;
  9-16   – – – -; Split Two Around 1 to a Line;
17-24   – – – -; – – Forward and Back;
25-32   – – – -; Center Four Star By the Left;

33-40   – – – -; – – Corner Swing;
41-48   – – – -; – – – Promenade;
49-56   – – – -; – – – -;
57-64   – – – -, Heads DoSaDo and Face the Sides;

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