Quick to the Draw

revised January 2018
Longways Becket formation
32 bars of 2/4
Music: Bonnie Kate, also known as Bonnie Cate (in Barnes I)

A1	Partners back to back (along lines) Ladies draw poussette neighbor halfway around set.
A2	Four changes of rights and lefts (with hands), beginning with neighbor across set.
B1	Neighbors back to back (across set). Set to neighbor (across set) and turn single (to face partner).
B2	Gents draw poussette partner halfway around set. With hands still joined, partners continue two more steps along the line to progress, setting, then turn single.

January 2006 original

A1 Partners back to back (along lines)
Ladies draw poussette neighbor halfway around set.
A2 Set to neighbor (across set) and turn single.
Four changes of rights and lefts (with hands), beginning with neighbor across set.
B1 [last two of four changes]
Neighbors back to back (across set).
B2 Gents draw poussette partner halfway around set.
With hands still joined, partners continue two more steps along the line to progress, setting, then turn single.

Notes

Becket formation is a contra-dance formation in which couples face couples across the longways set. It was introduced by Herb Gaudreau in the mid 1950s in a dance called the Becket reel.
Originally, I had the four changes figure cross the phrase ending the A2 and starting the B1 (as in Jack's Health) in hope of making the dance appear "seamless" since figures and music change in different places. The revised version move the neighbor set and turn single from the A2 to the B1, keeping the four changes all in the A2 and permitting dancers to orient toward partner for the partner draw poussette in B2.

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A1	Partners back to back (along lines) Ladies draw poussette neighbor halfway around set.
A2	Set to neighbor (across set) and turn single. Four changes of rights and lefts (with hands), beginning with neighbor across set.
B1	[last two of four changes] Neighbors back to back (across set).
B2	Gents draw poussette partner halfway around set. With hands still joined, partners continue two more steps along the line to progress, setting, then turn single.