Anticipation

By George Walker

SourceCDSS News #133, 1996
Levelmed (assigned by the editor)
TypeContra
FormationImproper
A1(16) Hey along your line: pass 1st neighbor by the right, 2nd neighbor by the left, gypsy with the 3rd and come back. Note: at the ends go around to the other line (as if the set were a bicycle chain).
End with the gents facing out, ladies facing in, right shoulder to neighbor
A2(16) Hey across the set, ladies pass left shoulders to start
B1(8,8) Neighbors gypsy and swing
B2(16) 1's swing

Editor's Notes:
Variants:
In B2: 1's balance and swing (this is the version in Gems)
In B2: Long lines go forward and back, 1's swing (this is the version I use)
Collected from the author 1989.

This dance is from American Country Dances On Line
All rights reserved by the author; used by permission.
Added to database 11/17/1996; last revised 3/5/1999; edited by Russell Owen