{"id":321,"date":"2014-04-01T01:35:34","date_gmt":"2014-04-01T01:35:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/dances.callerlab.org\/?p=321"},"modified":"2021-02-15T21:44:15","modified_gmt":"2021-02-15T21:44:15","slug":"clopton-bridge","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dances.callerlab.org\/?p=321","title":{"rendered":"Clopton Bridge"},"content":{"rendered":"

Formation:<\/span> Four couple contra lines. Four men on the caller’s right facing four ladies on the caller’s left.
\nMusic:<\/span> “Clopton Bridge” on Lloyd Shaw LS E-27 or any other 4 x 64-count music.<\/p>\n

Download RTF file: Clopton Bridge<\/a><\/p>\n

Prompts:<\/span>
\nIntro or<\/span>
\n57-64   – – – -; First lady, fourth man turn Right-Hand Around;<\/span>
\n    1-8   – – – -; Same two Left-Hand Around;<\/span>
\n  9-16   – – – -; First man, fourth lady turn Right-Hand Around;<\/span>
\n17-24   – – – -; Same two Left-Hand Around;<\/span>
\n25-32   – – – -; Center four Star Right;<\/span><\/p>\n

33-40   – – – -; Same four Star Left;<\/span>
\n41-48   – – – -; – Head couple slide to the foot;<\/span>
\n49-56   – – – -; – All two-hand turn your partner;<\/span>
\n57-64   – – – -; First lady, fourth man turn Right-Hand Around;<\/span><\/p>\n

Description:<\/span>
\n    1-8   The first lady (lady nearest the caller) and the fourth man (man farthest from the caller) move to the center to arm turn by the right.
\n  9-16   They remain in the center, change arms and turn by the left then return to their original places.
\n17-24   The first man (man nearest the caller) and the fourth lady (lady farthest from the caller) move to the center to arm turn by the right.
\n25-32   They remain in the center, change arms and turn by the left then return to their original places. <\/p>\n

33-40   The center four dancers Star by the Right for eight beats.
\n41-48   The same four quickly turn around and reconnect to Star by the Left back to their original places.
\n49-56   The top or head couple joins both hands and slides (sashay) to the foot of the set and then each dancer steps back into their own line of four.
\n57-64   Each partner pair joins both hands and turns clockwise once around. All dancers finish back in their own line. <\/p>\n

Choreography:<\/span> English Folk Dance
\nSource:<\/span> Printed in CDP Journal<\/span>, August 1994; and in Dancing For Busy People<\/span>, page 285
\nUsage:<\/span> This is a good dance for teaching the identification of various dancers within each line.<\/p>\n

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Clopton Bridge is a 64-count proper contra for four couples. It is an English folk dance. It uses arm turns and stars.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9,31],"tags":[32,15,24],"class_list":["post-321","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-contras","category-proper-line","tag-4-couples","tag-64-count","tag-bdp"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dances.callerlab.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/321","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=321"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/dances.callerlab.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/321\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2396,"href":"https:\/\/dances.callerlab.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/321\/revisions\/2396"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dances.callerlab.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=321"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dances.callerlab.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=321"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dances.callerlab.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=321"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}