STORM CLOUDS
Tune by Rebecca King
Dance by Bruce Herbold & Alan Winston at Fall Frolick 2011
Three-couple longways proper
Actives are 2nd couple
https://www-ssrl.slac.stanford.edu/~winston/mydances/apw/storm_clouds.pdf


A1: 1-2: Actives go right to right hand stars for three
    3-4: Actives only, facing partner up and down, turn single L and go to
    5-6: Left hand stars on the other end
    7-8: And turn single right to face right diagonal

A2: 1: Actives forward to first corner
    2: draw them back into line of four across in second place.
  3-8: Hey for four SIX changes(left shoulder); actives finish facing out 
       [corners bailing out after FIVE, loop  right  to 
       original places facing in] Note: Lots of time - three steps per change.
       [Everybody is home now, actives facing out[.

B1:1-4: Actives loop right to initiate right shoulder heys for three on the
        side; actives are going opposite floor directions ("contrary heys').
        The same four  people who were in the hey for four start this hey 
        with same role neighbor.)

   5-8: Actives turn two hands enough to open facing up PROPER (about 1/8), 
        then cast to bottom while 3s lead up


B2: 1-2: Circle six halfway (all improper)
    3-4: Turn single left
    5-6: partner gypsy left shoulder and
    7-8: Partner turn half by the left hand and pull right shoulder back to 
         finish in new places, ready to go right.


NOTES:


The story of the tune as Rebecca told it was that she was on a walk with her
daughter when they were going through some interpersonal difficulty and started
out not connecting and ended up feeling more united, which matched the
external-world dark clouds being replaced by sunshine. so we're thematically
keeping the actives until the Bs - you're out doing stuff with other people,
then reunited with partner at B1 bar 5.

Turns out that starting from the sideline, six steps is not enough to
comfortably get the star all the way around,  It turns 2/3 or so, so actives
are on their own sides but still offset from home place.  They can see each
other although they're kind of diagonal.  (It's thematically relevant that the
actives don't connect here.)  The turn single doesn't involve the other active;
it's out of the star into home place or maybe a teeny bit left of it with some
leftward energy.  [and the end couples just drift to home.  We considered
having them turn single too but it turned out to be too disorienting.]

A2:  The diagonal line you show is where we are after bar 1 of A2  Then the
actives take two hands with the neighbor they're close to and draw them back
(like a fractional poussette) into a line across with the actives on the end,
corners back to back in the middle.

      TOP OF SET
   ------------------
          W1

M2<>W3 M1<> W2

    M3


(The actives fall back a little beyond the set line which I'm trying to show in
the diagram, but it's a position that you immediately pass through starting the
left shoulder hey across.  The impetus for the hey comes from the draw back). 
At the end of A2 everyone is home and the actives are facing out.

"Contrary heys".  Right shoulder heys for three on the side.  Actives, back to
each other, go their individual rights, as a result active gent starts going
up, active lady starts going down.  "Contrary" because the actives are going
opposite directions.  [Supposedly this term is common in Scottish but I can't
verify that from experience.]    Important that they go opposite directions so
that they can see each other coming from the other direction and anticipate
enough to meet and do the partial two hand turn and open up.