{"id":122,"date":"2014-03-08T03:50:16","date_gmt":"2014-03-08T03:50:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/dances.callerlab.org\/?p=122"},"modified":"2021-02-16T15:59:08","modified_gmt":"2021-02-16T15:59:08","slug":"french-eight-idea","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dances.callerlab.org\/?p=122","title":{"rendered":"French Eight Idea"},"content":{"rendered":"

Formation:<\/span> Square of four couples with any gender combination<\/p>\n

Music:<\/span> Any singing call with clear 4-beat phrasing<\/p>\n

Download RTF file: French Eight Idea<\/a><\/p>\n

Prompts: <\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n

Prompts:<\/span>
\nIntro or<\/span>
\n57-64   #1s go across;<\/span>
\n    1-8   Pick up #3s and bring them in; – – Push them home;<\/span>
\n  9-16   Return back home; – #2s go across; <\/span>
\n17-24   Pick up #4s and bring them in; – – Push them home; <\/span><\/p>\n

25-32   Return back home; – all Circle Left; <\/span>
\n33-40   – – – -; – – Allemande Left; <\/span>
\n41-48   Come back to partner; – – all Promenade; <\/span>
\n49-56   – – – -; – – – -; <\/span><\/p>\n

Repeat starting with #2s across, #3s across and #4s across. <\/p>\n

Description:<\/span><\/p>\n

    1-8   Dancers in Couple #1 (nearest top of hall) take four steps to walk across the square to join their free outside hands with Couple #3. Couple #1 backs up pulling Couple #3 with them 4 steps into the center of the square.
\n   9-16   Couple #1 pushes Couple #3 back to their home location in 4 steps. Couple #1 leaves Couple #3 and then Couple #1 backs up 4 steps into their home position.
\n17-24   Couple #2 (on the right side of Couple #1) repeats the action of Couple #1 picking up Couple #4 and pulling them into the center of the square.
\n25-32   Couple #2 pushes Couple #4 back to their home, leaves them there and then Couple #2 backs up into their home position.<\/p>\n

33-40   All eight dancers join hands and Circle to the Left for about 8 steps.
\n41-48   Dancers face their corner and Allemande Left (join left forearms and walk counter-clockwise around each other until facing partner).
\n49-64   Partners take Promenade handhold (shake right hands and join left hands underneath) and Promenade (couples walk counter-clockwise) around the square back to their home.<\/p>\n

Choreography by:<\/span> Idea from Traditional Square Dance called the French Eight<\/p>\n

Source:<\/span> Printed in CD Journal,<\/span> December 2009<\/p>\n

Usage:<\/span> This is a very simple, genderless square dance figure.
\nThis page from http:\/\/dances.callerlab.org<\/a> (CALLERLAB Dance Resource)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

This is a very simple, genderless square dance figure. Couple #1 go across and pick up Couple #3, pull them in, push them back, return home. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,25],"tags":[15,24],"class_list":["post-122","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-square-dances","category-traditional-square","tag-64-count","tag-bdp"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dances.callerlab.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/122","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dances.callerlab.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dances.callerlab.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dances.callerlab.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dances.callerlab.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=122"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/dances.callerlab.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/122\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2458,"href":"https:\/\/dances.callerlab.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/122\/revisions\/2458"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dances.callerlab.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=122"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dances.callerlab.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=122"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dances.callerlab.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=122"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}