Come With Me
By Rick Mohr; May, 2014
Contra, Duple Improper
Level: Intermediate/Advanced

A1: (New) women cross, passing left shoulders (2)
    Right shoulder gypsy with partner (6)
    Circle left (men lead partner) (8)

A2: Pass through across (3)
    Swing partner (13)

B1: Men cross, passing right shoulders (2)
    Left shoulder gypsy with neighbor (6)
    Circle right (women lead neighbor) (8)

B2: Women turn out and back (3)
    Swing neighbor (13)

Rick writes:

Gypsy-to-circle is a rare and fine transition. This dance offers it with
contrasting symmetriesâclockwise with partner (led by the men), and
counter-clockwise with neighbor (led by the women).

In A1 new women look right, and cross by left shoulders; men should step left
to flow into the partner gypsy. After once around, women can connect everything
by placing left hand in the man's right as he leads into the circle.

Men start the B1 passing right shoulders, which flows smoothly out of the
partner swing if the men can suspend their usual instinct to pass left. Women
should step right to flow into the left-shoulder gypsy. After once around, men
can connect everything by placing right hand in the woman's left as she leads
into the circle right. After circling, women cast right and back to flow into
the neighbor swing.

The timings given above are approximate; in my experience, different foursomes
dance with different timings (often starting the A2 and B2 later than
indicated) but it all works out.

Thanks to Kathy Anderson for pointing out how to connect the gypsy-to-circle
transition years ago in Jim Kitch's dance "Bees in the Shower". I've been
wanting to double it up for years, and finally worked it out while serving on a
Philadelphia jury in a slow-moving trial. (The verdict was "not guilty".