Cast Away Waltz
Two-couple waltz country dance
USA
Alan Winston, 3/8/2002

Tune by Colin Hume
https://www-ssrl.slac.stanford.edu/~winston/mydances/apw/cast_away_waltz.pdf

3/4, Key C, 120 bpm

Each person is on the corner of a square set.  ("This is your spot.  It's your
friend; get to know it, you'll be going back to it a lot.)



(In a double)
A1: 1-2: Partners curve in to meet neighbors
         (take hands at about beat four)
    3-4: Cast away from partner (M L, W R) back to place facing partner
    5-8: LEFT shoulder gypsy partner, finish facing partner
A2: 1-2: Neighbors lead in to meet partners
    3-4: Cast away from neighbor back to place facing neighbor
    5-8  RIGHT shoulder gypsy neighbor, finish facing in to set.

B1: 1-2: women change places (diagonally) Hole in the Wall/Well-Hall style,
         finishing fairly close
    3-4: men change places (diagonally) passing right shoulder, catching rhand
    5-8: all four right-hand-star once round (women start right foot, men left)

B2: 1-8: move into closed waltz position with partner
         and go round the other couple 1.5 CCW, finishing at home,
         facing partner.

(Siding)
A1: 1-2: Partners meet, right shoulder to right shoulder
    3-4: Cast away from partner (that is, cast left) back to place
    5-8: Partners LEFT shoulder gypsy, finish facing neighbor 

A2: 1-2: Neighbors meet, left shoulder to left shoulder
    3-4: Cast away from neighbor (that is, cast right) back to place
    5-8: Neighbors RIGHT shoulder gypsy, finish facing in to set


B1&2  as above


(Arming)
A1: 1-2: Partners right hand turn halfway finishing facing partner
    3-4: Cast left back to place
    5-8: Gypsy partner LEFT shoulder, finish facing neighbor
A2: 1-2: Neighbors left hand turn halfway finishing facing neighbor
    3-4: Cast right back to place  (getns can loop past each other inside the
         set)
    5-8: Neighbors gypsy RIGHT shoulder

B1&2 as above



NOTE: Closing the first two bars of A, bring your feet together so that you're
prepared to turn away without a radical surprise.

Teaching notes:

Emphasize who you cast away from (whoever you've been working with).

Perhaps rough in the general structure and then refine rather than telling
people too much at once.  (But when you get into how the lead in works, note
that each person walks around a circle in the course of the lead in).

May need to emphasize anticipation of the corner cross so that ladies elongate
the gypsy enough to not have to wait to cross.