I called it in Baltimore last Wednesday. It's helpful to tell the ladies that
the first chain is to a shadow.
April Blum On Aug 24, 2015 10:06 AM, Jeremy Gmail via Callers
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> I’m not sure if our American friends will realise it, but the name is a pun
> on the “Vickers Machine Gun”, one of the main weapons used by the British
> Army in the First World War
> (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vickers_machine_gun).
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> Jeremy
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> From: Callers [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of
> Edmund Croft via Callers
> Sent: 17 August 2015 22:58
> To: [email protected]
> Subject: [Callers] Misplaced a dance...
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> Valerie Young is looking for a dance featuring ladies' chains all over the
> place, then circles and pass thrus to get your partner back. As she came
> across it in the USA, it's unlikely to be the one I know, which is by ex-
> Cambridge (UK) dancer/choreographer Jacob Steel, unless someone exported it,
> having danced it at the Inter-Varsity Folk Dance Festival.
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> The story Jacob uses for this one is that clergy are not permitted to use
> certain sorts of weapon, so this particular gun fires ladies rather than
> bullets:
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> THE VICAR’S MACHINE GUN (R32) Becket Jacob Steel
> 1-8 Circle left ¾ and pass through up and down
> Circle left ½ and the men roll their neighbour across to change
> places
> 9-16 Ladies chain on the right diagonal. LCh across
> 17-24 LCh on the left diagonal. Ladies pass RSh into half a reel of 4 across
> 25-32 Balance and swing partner.
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> Edmund Croft,
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> Cambridge Folk of various sorts
