{"id":1446,"date":"2019-03-20T13:26:52","date_gmt":"2019-03-20T13:26:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/dances.callerlab.org\/?p=1446"},"modified":"2019-03-21T00:19:16","modified_gmt":"2019-03-21T00:19:16","slug":"appalachian-trail-mixer","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dances.callerlab.org\/?p=1446","title":{"rendered":"Appalachian Trail Mixer"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-weight: bold;\">Formation:<\/span>  Couples facing counter-clockwise around hall, lady on gents right<br \/>\n<span style=\"font-weight: bold;\">Music:<\/span>  Your choice of well-phrased 64-count music <\/p>\n<p>Download RTF file: <a href=\"http:\/\/dances.callerlab.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/03\/AppalachianTrailMixer.rtf\">Appalachian Trail Mixer<\/a><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"text-decoration: underline; font-weight: bold;\">Prompts:<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"font-style: italic;\">Intro or<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"font-weight: bold; font-style: italic;\">  57-64 &nbsp; &#8211; &#8211; &#8211; -; Walk forward eight steps;<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"font-weight: bold;\">&nbsp; &nbsp; 1-8 &nbsp; &#8211; &#8211; &#8211; -; Both turn left, Lady chase man in;<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"font-weight: bold;\"> &nbsp; 9-16 &nbsp; Gent chase lady out; &#8211; to reverse walk eight;<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"font-weight: bold;\"> 17-24 &nbsp; &#8211; &#8211; &#8211; -; Both turn left, Gent chase lady out;<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"font-weight: bold;\"> 25-32 &nbsp; Lady chase gent in; same couple Dosado;<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: bold;\"> 33-40 &nbsp; &#8211; &#8211; &#8211; -; &#8211; &#8211; Right-hand Star;<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"font-weight: bold;\"> 41-48 &nbsp; &#8211; &#8211; &#8211; -; &#8211; &#8211; Left-hand Star;<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"font-weight: bold;\"> 49-56 &nbsp; &#8211; &#8211; &#8211; -; Face partner and back away four;<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"font-weight: bold;\"> 57-64 &nbsp; Diagonally right to new partner in four; &#8211; &#8211; (Walk forward eight);<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"text-decoration: underline; font-weight: bold;\">Description:<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"font-size: small;\"> &nbsp; &nbsp; 1-8 &nbsp; <\/span> All couples walk forward eight steps counter-clockwise around the hall.<br \/>\n<span style=\"font-size: small;\">&nbsp; <\/span> 9-16 &nbsp; Dancers individually turn one-quarter left to face the center of the hall with the lady behind the gent.  In single file walk four steps towards the center. Both turn around and walk single file towards the wall.<br \/>\n17-24 &nbsp; All dancers turn left and the couples walk eight steps clockwise around the hall.<br \/>\n25-32 &nbsp; Dancers individually turn one-quarter left to face away from the center with the gent behind the lady.  In single file walk four steps towards the wall.  Both turn around and walk single-file towards the center. <\/p>\n<p>33-40 &nbsp; The gents turn around and those two dancers Dosado.<br \/>\n41-48 &nbsp; Same two make Right-hand Star and turn it for eight counts.<br \/>\n49-56 &nbsp; Dancers turn alone and reconnect with the other hand in a Left-hand Star and turn it for eight counts. End with the gent in the center facing the lady on the outside.<br \/>\n57-64 &nbsp; Dancers back away four steps then move diagonally right to a new partner in four steps. <\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: bold;\">Choreography by:<\/span>  Decko Deck, Washington, D. C.<br \/>\n<span style=\"font-weight: bold;\">Usage:<\/span>  Beware of the many quick changes after four counts.  Good focus and a quick reaction time are needed to dance this successfully.  <\/p>\n<p>This page from <a href=\"http:\/\/dances.callerlab.org\/\">http:\/\/dances.callerlab.org<\/a> (CALLERLAB Dance Resource).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>There a several quick changes in direction so it requires a good focus and quick reaction time. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,4],"tags":[15,74,39],"class_list":["post-1446","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-circle-mixers","category-using-square-dance-calls","tag-64-count","tag-chase","tag-stars"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dances.callerlab.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1446","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=1446"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/dances.callerlab.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1446\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1581,"href":"https:\/\/dances.callerlab.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1446\/revisions\/1581"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dances.callerlab.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1446"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dances.callerlab.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1446"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dances.callerlab.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1446"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}