[Callers] Question About It's a Pirate's Life for Me

[Rickey]

Hi,

I am preparing to call Nathaniel Jack’s “It’s A Pirate’s Life for Me”
tonight.  The dance is below. I am wondering why at the end of the B2 the
allemande with your neighbor is a second allemande right.  Since the women
already have their right hands busy with their own allemande right it would
seem easier for them to do an allemande LEFT with their neighbor, and since
the next move is a balance with your new neighbor it would seem easier for
all to be coming out of that allemande left, rather than out of an allemande
right.  Do I have this part of the dance wrong?

The dance notation is followed by my understanding of some of the other
parts as well.  If you have time take a look.  I would love your comments on
this too.  My main concern at this point however is with that second
allemande right.  It seems like it should be an allemande left.

It’s A Pirates’ Life For Me - teaching

Nathaniel Jack - duple improper

Dance

A1       Neighbor Balance and Swing

A2       Pass thru to a wave (4)

            Bal the wave (4)

            Slide right (men 2 places) (4)

            Men Allemande Left (once) (4)

B1        Partner Balance and Swing.

B2        Women Allemande Right once and a half around (8)

            Neighbor Allemande Right ( 1 ¾ ) to New Neighbors (8)

Teaching – I have abbreviated this

A1

1.      Neighbor – BALANCE AND SWING
2.      End  facing across

A2

1.      PASS THRU TO A WAVE ACROSS

*       Start to walk straight across the set, passing right shoulders with
your partner, putting the women in the middle
*       As the women pass each other take left hands and turn ¼ so W1 faces
up and W2 faces down the set
*       Men continue to the ends and join that wavy line
*       M1 face up, M2 face down
*       You are in a wavy line across the set with the women in the middle
holding left in left, and the men across the set from where they started
holding right hands with the women

2.      BALANCE THE WAVE
3.      SLIDE RIGHT

*       Without turning around SLIDE to your RIGHT, like sliding doors, as
in Rory O’More
*       Men Pass 2 people and end left in left

4.      MEN ALLEMANDE LEFT (1) (IN 4!!!) – this is zippy

B1

1.      PARTNER BALANCE AND SWING

            End that swing facing across the set.

B2        

1.      WOMEN ALLEMANDE RIGHT, each other, (1 ½ ) to your neighbor
2.      NEIGHBORS ALLEMANDE also by the RIGHT  (1 ¾ ) to New Neighbors
3.      Ready to Balance and Swing with your New Neighbors, when the dance
continues