A FAIR WIND HOME
By Rick Mohr; September 15, 1997
Contra, Becket
Level: Intermediate
Figs:WAR3/4:BTW:AL3/4:BTW:NNAR:NS:4iL:BTL:BTR:G&T:PS:

A1:  Women allemande right 3/4 (4)
       [Join left hands with neighbor to form a wave of four]
     Balance the wave (4)
     Allemande left with neighbor 3/4 (4)
       [Join right hands with next neighbor to form long waves]
     Balance the long wave (4)

A2:  With same next neighbor (the one you're holding hands with), 
     Allemande right (6)
     back to original neighbor and Swing (10)

B1:  [Open facing down] and
     Down the center, four in line (turn as a couple) (8)
     Return and bend the line to form a circle) (8)

B2:  Balance the ring (4)
     Give and take (2)  [Men pull, swing on original side]
     Swing partner (10)
     (Face across the set; women look on left diagonal for the next woman)


RICK SEZ:
"Balance the ring" in B2 makes a nice transition to Larry Jennings' "give and
take" figure. After the balance, each man pulls his partner toward him and
smoothly into a swing. The woman can resist momentarily, and then use the arm
tension to accelerate across the set into the swing.

After the partner swing in B2, couples will be offset from one another
approximately one position to the left; this puts each man more or less across
from the next man he will dance with. The new women find each other by looking
across the set and two places to the left, and complete the progression by
allemande right to a wave of four in the new minor set. (The allemande right is
actually about a 5/8 turn.)

For the engagement of David and Susie Titus. 

ALAN SEZ:
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END EFFECTS: While you're out, hang out neutrally to join long waves in 
middle of A1, then come back to partner and swing.  After that, move to the
other side of the set (eg, right side (facing up) at top, left side (facing up)
at bottom.)
