{"id":2264,"date":"2020-12-22T16:17:10","date_gmt":"2020-12-22T16:17:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/dances.callerlab.org\/?p=2264"},"modified":"2020-12-24T16:41:49","modified_gmt":"2020-12-24T16:41:49","slug":"pickup-2-4-6","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dances.callerlab.org\/?p=2264","title":{"rendered":"Pick Up 2-4-6"},"content":{"rendered":"

Formation:<\/span> Four couples in a Square
\nMusic:<\/span> Your choice<\/p>\n

Download RTF file: Pick Up 2-4-6<\/a><\/p>\n

Prompts:<\/span>
\nIntro or<\/span>
\n57-64   Couple (one) bow and swing;<\/span>
\n    1-8   Lead Right to the right of the ring;<\/span>
\n  9-16   Circle four is what you do;<\/span>
\n17-24   Active gent break, pick up two;<\/span>
\n25-32   Circle six around the floor;<\/span><\/p>\n

33-40   Active gent break pick up two more;<\/span>
\n41-48   Circle eight go round the land;<\/span>
\n49-56   Allemande Left;<\/span><\/p>\n

Repeat for second, third, and fourth couples.<\/span> <\/p>\n

Description:<\/span>
\n    1-8   First couple bow to each other and swing.
\n   9-16   First couple Lead Right to face couple #2.
\n17-24   Those four dancers Circle Left about three-quarters around.
\n25-32   The first gent release his handhold with the second lady and pick up couple three.<\/p>\n

33-40   Those six dancers Circle Left about three-quarters around.
\n41-48   The first gent release his handhold with the third lady and pick up couple four.
\n49-56   All eight Circle Left once around back to home.
\n57-64   Allemande Left and square up at home.<\/p>\n

Choreography:<\/span> Traditional square dance figure
\nSource:<\/span> Printed in Community Dance Program Handbook<\/span>
\nUsage:<\/span> Beginner Square Dance Party or Community Dance<\/p>\n

Variation 1:<\/span>
\nFrom Indiana Square Dance Callers, Carl Brandt, CDP Journal<\/span>, November 1997.<\/p>\n

Prompts:<\/span>
\nIntro or<\/span>
\n57-64   First Couple Lead Right and Circle four hands around;<\/span>
\n    1-8   Keep them, go on to the next and Circle six hands around;<\/span>
\n  9-16   – – – -, – – – -; <\/span>
\n17-24   Keep them, go on to the last and Circle eight hands around;<\/span>
\n25-32   Reverse and Circle Right to home;<\/span><\/p>\n

33-40   – – – -, – – Swing Partner;<\/span>
\n41-48   – – – -, – – Promenade;<\/span>
\n49-56   – – – -, – – – -;<\/span><\/p>\n

Variation 2:<\/span>
\nSee “Chassee Partners” for a slightly more complicated version of this idea.<\/p>\n

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This is a very simple visiting couple square dance using just circles of 4, 6 and 8 and Allemande Left. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,28],"tags":[100,24,73],"class_list":["post-2264","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-square-dances","category-visiting-couple","tag-allemande-left","tag-bdp","tag-circle"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dances.callerlab.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2264","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=2264"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/dances.callerlab.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2264\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2324,"href":"https:\/\/dances.callerlab.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2264\/revisions\/2324"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dances.callerlab.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2264"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dances.callerlab.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2264"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dances.callerlab.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2264"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}