As a cho­reo­grapher, I strive to write dances that are both com­pel­ling and idio­matic–the coolest dance in the world isn’t worth any­thing if it doesn’t flow well enough for people to get the hang of it.

My dances have been called as far afield as Alaska and Eng­land, so that’s pretty cool! Feed­back is al­ways wel­come (as are re­quests!)–feel free to drop me a line.

Dances marked with an as­ter­isk (*) are par­tic­u­lar fa­vor­ites/have achieved es­cape ve­lo­city and are fre­quently called by oth­ers.

The Baby Jo [ex­pert] — smooth lost-and-found dance with a J-hook prom­en­ade + circle right

Barack Me, Oba­madeus* [ac­cess­ible] — smooth, hey-like fig­ure up/down the set, sat­is­fy­ing prom­en­ade > circle right trans­ition

Brook­lyn Trans­fer [ac­cess­ible] — mashup of a mashup; Rory O'Moore with a spin to catch part­ner and swing

Ce­les­tial Beans [ex­pert] — flowy fa­cing star dance with sur­pris­ing pro­gres­sion

Don't Worry, Shoshana [ad­vanced] — mul­tiple neigh­bor swings with a cool pass-thru-to-hey pro­gres­sion

Emma's Emer­gency* [ac­cess­ible] — ac­cess­ible dance with an out­side-the-box box the gnat and a little stomp

Gates of Irving [ac­cess­ible] — robins left-hand chain in an oth­er­wise simple dance, with el­eg­ant flow

Glu­ten-Free Pet­ron­ella [ac­cess­ible] — lots of ring bal­ances, part­ner twirl into new neigh­bor swing

Happy Jew Queer* [ex­pert] — a lost-and-found dance with double-shadow in­ter­ac­tion and rollaway into a swing

Hel­looo Nurse!* [ac­cess­ible] — larks' right-hand chain to neigh­bor in an oth­er­wise dead-easy dance

I Can't Be­lieve It's Not But­ter! [ac­cess­ible] — Gene Hubert's "But­ter" but make it a larks' right-hand chain

I'll Hold You In My Arms [ac­cess­ible] — easy Pet­ron­el­las-in-the-B dance

It Came to Me in a Dream [ac­cess­ible] — smooth dance with un­ex­pec­ted but in­tu­it­ive trans­itions; hey -> circle R -> zig zag

Mes­sage from the Fu­ture [ad­vanced] — lots of eye con­tact and flow­ing mo­tion

Mup­pets and Mazels [ad­vanced] — pet­ron­el­las and lots of spin­ning

My Part­ner's Part­ner* [ex­pert] — 4x4 where you swap part­ners with your trail buddy each time through the dance

Neigh­bor, Neigh­bor On the Wall* [ac­cess­ible] — two swings with same neigh­bor

Not a Fever Dream [ac­cess­ible] — simple larks left-hand chain dance with good flow

Pink Mar­tini* [ad­vanced] — stompy fun; Pet­ron­ella turns (incl. Pet­ron­ella turn to swing a new N) and a little shadow time

Poly Wanna Corner? [ex­pert] — AAB­BCC dance with same-role con­tra corners

Star Trek: the Next Gen­er­a­tion [ex­pert] — Mike Richard­son's Star Trek, re-ima­gined

Train Delay* [ac­cess­ible] — an ac­cess­ible and en­er­getic shadow dance (also a good closer), pull-by into a do-si-do for extra mo­mentum

Train to Trenton [ac­cess­ible] — slick, smooth, ex­tremely flowy; prom­en­ade and circle R trans­itions that I ac­tu­ally feel good about

Treas­ure of the Soda Bar* [ac­cess­ible] — square through dance with A1 taken from James Hut­son's Treas­ure of the Si­erra Madre

Vi­olet Ice* [ad­vanced] — mad robin / pous­sette. Smooth and Eng­lish-y, lots of eye con­tact with part­ner

The Baby Jo (becket R)

A1: larks al­le­mande L 1.5x

neigh­bor swing

A2: robins chain to part­ner (and turn away to face shadow on the side)1

shadow al­le­mande R 1.5x (and face across in skater prom­en­ade po­s­i­tion)2

B1: J-hook prom­en­ade3: prom­en­ade across and loop wide to face new neigh­bors

with these new neigh­bors, circle R 1x

B2: (turn away to find your part­ner on the side4) part­ner right shoulder 'round and swing

  • 1: For best flow into the shadow al­le­mande, dan­cers should twirl on the cour­tesy turn OR do an open chain. (If you're going to men­tion this as a teach­ing point, please offer the open chain as an al­tern­at­ive for those who don't like twirl­ing!)

  • 2: To get into skater prom­en­ade, keep R hands with your shadow (trans­ition to hand­shake grip), take L hands with them as well, and robin turn their torso to face across (this may war­rant a quick demo).

  • 3: Be­fore the J-hook prom­en­ade, note the couple on the left di­ag­onal; you will end up in that spot, across from that couple.

  • 4: I find this trans­ition works best if the lark un­der-ro­tates, i.e. never com­pletely turns their back on their part­ner; rather, at the very end of the circle, walk mostly for­ward across the set to swing.

END EF­FECTS: any­one out after A2 must im­me­di­ately come back in for the prom­en­ade (i.e. either get on the left diag. and prom­en­ade across+left, or slide in on the right di­ag­onal). Oth­er­wise, wait out im­proper.

Com­pos­i­tion notes: Writ­ten for Baby Jo Byers (a J-hook prom­en­ade + a circle spells "Jo"!). The title is, of course, a riff on "The Baby Rose" by David Kaynor.

Barack Me, Obamadeus* (improper) [VIDEO]

A1: (new) neigh­bor right shoulder 'round and swing

A2: larks al­le­mande L 1 1/2

half hey (pass P by R sh.)

B1: part­ner right shoulder 'round and swing

B2: prom­en­ade across

circle R 3/4 and pass through by L sh.

Com­pos­i­tion notes: Writ­ten for Brook­lyn Con­tra on 8/4/17, which is Obama's birth­day, hence the title. Smooth dance with a hey-like fig­ure up/down the set and a sat­is­fy­ing prom­en­ade > circle right trans­ition.

Brooklyn Transfer with Michael Karcher (becket L)

A1: (slide left to) circle L 3/4

neigh­bor swing

A2: long lines for­ward and back

robins chain to part­ner

B1: left-hand star 1x and make long waves (LH with part­ner, RH with shadow)

waves bal­ance (R, L), slide R (past shadow)

B2: waves bal­ance (L, R), slide L (past shadow)

(catch part­ner) part­ner swing

Com­pos­i­tion notes: Mi­chael mashed up my dance Train Delay with Bill Olson's Dan­cing With Amy and premiered it at Brook­lyn Con­tra when I happened to be in the crowd; I riffed on his riff to add the spin-and-catch-part­ner, and the res­ult was this.

Celestial Beans (reverse indecent1)

A1: bal­ance the ring, give and take part­ner to the lark's side

part­ner swing

A2: circle left 3/4

with part­ner, zig zag to the FAR SIDE of new neigh­bors2 and turn single3 to face them

B1: neigh­bor in­side hand bal­ance and twirl to swap4

fa­cing star CW 1x (keep out­side hands with N, larks take RH/robins take LH; larks go for­ward/robins back up)

B2: neigh­bor right shoulder 'round and swing

  • 1: As a nor­mal im­proper dance but with the 1s below the 2s. I re­com­mend start­ing the walk­through im­proper be­gin­ning at the B2. When out at the ends, wait out im­proper.

  • 2: Zig left and zag right to your new neigh­bors (the dance will re­start with them), and con­tinue zig­ging right/zag left to the far side of that couple. (It's a SINGLE PRO­GRES­SION DANCE, so don't start dan­cing with new new neigh­bors in im­proper.)

  • 3: I re­com­mend turn­ing to­wards your part­ner (for a brief mo­ment of eye con­tact), as it gives good mo­mentum for every­one's cor­rect hand in A1. Con­sider teach­ing this, as dan­cers have wildly dif­fer­ent ideas of how to turn single. (Most im­port­antly though, don't let dan­cers go on auto­pi­lot and turn as a couple here.)

  • 4: Lark's left hand/robin's right hand; bal­ance and twirl to swap (by de­fault, with the robin going under the joined hands). (I was in­formed by some Mod­ern West­ern people that it is tech­nic­ally a mir­ror star through, but the name of the twirl is IMO un­im­port­ant.)

Com­pos­i­tion notes: Writ­ten for/premiered at Bean­town Stomp 2024 (yet an­other dance de­veloped while nap­ping). The ori­ginal ver­sion of this dance had the A and B parts re­versed.

Don't Worry, Shoshana (improper)

Starts in hands-4 with N1 (cur­rent neigh­bor). Pre­vi­ous neigh­bor (N0) is be­hind you.

A1: full hey (robins pass L) and look for pre­vi­ous neigh­bor (N0)1

A2: N0 swing

N1 swing

B1: robins al­le­mande R 1 1/2

part­ner swing

B2: circle left 3/4

bal­ance the ring and pass through, robins walk­ing for­ward extra to pass L sh. with this new robin

  • 1: After last pass of P, robins loop R on the side (WHILE larks pass L and then look L for pre­vi­ous N)

Com­pos­i­tion notes: Writ­ten for Shoshana Sil­ver­man, who is al­ways stressed out when there aren't enough neigh­bor swings.

Emma's Emergency* (improper)

A1: (new) neigh­bor bal­ance and swing

A2: circle left 3/4

(on the side) part­ner RH bal­ance and box the gnat

B1: half hey (larks pass left)

part­ner swing

B2: circle left 3/4

bal­ance the ring and Cali­for­nia twirl to face the next

Com­pos­i­tion notes: Writ­ten for Emma Azel­born, who was hav­ing (as the title may sug­gest) a work­shop-pro­gram­ming emer­gency; premiered at her role-swap­ping work­shop at Queer Con­tra Dance Camp 2024.

Gates of Irving (improper)

A1: hands-across left-hand star 1x

robins left-hand chain (to P; larks cast over R shoulder to re­ceive this robin with a cour­tesy turn)

A2: full hey (robins passing L)

B1: part­ner right shoulder 'round and swing

B2: circle L 3/4

neigh­bor al­le­mande R 1 1/2

Com­pos­i­tion notes: Writ­ten at Lind­sey Dono's re­quest for a robins left-hand chain dance that wasn't ab­surdly com­plex; tested out­side a con­tra­dance at the corner of Gates Av­enue and Irving Av­enue in Brook­lyn; left in a drawer gath­er­ing dust until its premiere at Amer­ican Week 2023.

Gluten-Free Petronella (becket L)

A1: bal­ance the ring and spin right

bal­ance the ring and lark roll neigh­bor robin away (with a half-sashay)

A2: bal­ance the ring and Nevada twirl part­ner (to face new Ns)

swing this new N

B1: robins chain (to P)

half hey (robins passing R)

B2: part­ner bal­ance and swing

A Nevada Twirl is just a Cali­for­nia twirl that starts with the lark on the right/robin on the left.

Com­pos­i­tion notes: Writ­ten winter '16 as an al­tern­at­ive to Chris Ric­ci­otti’s "Green­field Pet­ron­ella"; I wanted to pre­serve the bal­ance-y feel of the dance and the CA twirl –> new neigh­bor swing, but wanted a single pro­gres­sion. First called at Mt. Airy in May '16.

Happy Jew Queer* (becket L, 2x prog.)

A1: long lines for­ward and back

robins al­le­mande R 1x (4)

cour­tesy turn part­ner (4) (all are home)

A2: robins chain on L di­ag­onal (to next N)

left-hand star 1x (straight across, with shadow #1 and neigh­bor; part­ner is in a dif­fer­ent star)

B1: robins chain on R di­ag­onal (to shadow #2) AND TURN AWAY FROM THE ONE YOU CHAINED TO to...

circle L 1x with shadow #11

B2: larks roll shadow away (4)

part­ner swing (12) (and get square; no one should be out at the top)

  • 1: In teach­ing, em­phas­ize that this circle is NOT with the one you chained to (this is the most counter-in­tu­it­ive part of the dance).

All rollaways in­clude a half-sashay. At the be­gin­ning of the dance, shadow #1 is bey­ond your part­ner, shadow #2 is bey­ond them. The dance starts again with new neigh­bors dir­ectly across.

Com­pos­i­tion notes: Writ­ten for A.Z. Madonna around New Years 2016 be­cause they wanted a dance with a rollaway into a swing; re­vised sum­mer 2023.

Hellooo Nurse!* (improper) [VIDEO]

A1: (new) neigh­bor bal­ance and swing

A2: larks al­le­mande L 1 1/2

part­ner swing

B1: long lines for­ward, on the way back larks roll part­ner away with a half-sashay

larks right-hand chain to N

B2: left-hand star 1x

cur­rent neigh­bor al­le­mande L 1 1/21

  • 1: In teach­ing, em­phas­ize that this al­le­mande is with your CUR­RENT neigh­bor, i.e. the one you starred with (this is the biggest point of con­fu­sion for ex­per­i­enced dan­cers used to look­ing for new neigh­bors out of a left-hand star).

Com­pos­i­tion notes: Writ­ten Janu­ary 2017, premiered shortly there­after at Brook­lyn Con­tra. I wanted a dance with a larks' right-hand chain to a neigh­bor that was oth­er­wise dead easy, and this is what I came up with. (There are lots of great dances with a larks' right-hand chain to their part­ner, but chain­ing to a neigh­bor lets dan­cers prac­tice the move with lots of dif­fer­ent folks.)

I Can't Believe It's Not Butter! (improper) [VIDEO]

A1: long lines for­ward and back

larks right-hand chain (to P)

A2: full hey (larks passing R)

B1: part­ner bal­ance and swing

B2: larks al­le­mande L 1 1/2

neigh­bor swing

Com­pos­i­tion notes: It's ba­sic­ally "But­ter" by Gene Hubert, only... not! (This dance is quite sim­ilar to an earlier dance in­de­pend­ently de­rived by Ju­lian Blech­ner, "Page's Chain".)

I'll Hold You In My Arms (improper)

A1: (new) larks al­le­mande L 1 1/4

part­ner swing

A2: long lines for­ward and back

robins chain (to N)

B1: bal­ance the ring and spin right (2x)

B2: neigh­bor bal­ance and swing (and look on slight left di­ag­onal for new larks)

Com­pos­i­tion notes: Writ­ten March 2019 to pair with DJ Flour­ish's mix In My Arms–I wanted Pet­ron­el­las in the B but needed a dance be­sides Tica Tica Tim­ing.

It Came to Me in a Dream (improper)

A1: (new) neigh­bor right shoulder 'round and swing

A2: larks cross (passing L) (4)

part­ner swing (12)

B1: long lines for­ward and back

half hey (robins pass right)1

B2: circle R 1 1/4 (10)2

zig right and zag left to meet new neigh­bors (6)

  • 1: this half hey ends with robins on the right of their part­ner (i.e. every­one has switched places with their same-role neigh­bor)

  • 2: robins drive this circle R (as they end the hey/start the circle to the right of their part­ner)

Com­pos­i­tion notes: It quite lit­er­ally came to me in a dream; I woke up way too early one morn­ing with this dance boun­cing around in my head.

Message from the Future (becket L) [VIDEO]

A1: robins chain to neigh­bor1

mad robin, robins in front first (i.e. CCW)

A2: robins pass R to start a 3/4 hey

when larks meet in the middle for the second time, right shoulder 'round 1x

B1: part­ner right shoulder 'round and swing (op­pos­ite home side)

B2: circle L 1/2 and slide L to new neigh­bors (6)

with these new neigh­bors, circle L all the way (10)

  • 1: When teach­ing, em­phas­ize that this chain your neigh­bor (there’s a lot of circ­ling and not-quite-square phrases and it’s use­ful to have that point of ref­er­ence).

Com­pos­i­tion notes: Writ­ten sum­mer 2014 (while I was on va­ca­tion in Europe and my sweetie at the time was in Aus­tralia–I be­lieve the title was in ref­er­ence to time dif­fer­ences?), first called Janu­ary 2016 at the Down­town Am­h­erst con­tra­dance.

Muppets and Mazels (becket R)

A1: give and take (larks take your N home)

neigh­bor swing

A2: bal­ance the ring and spin right

bal­ance the ring and spin right, spin­ning extra to face new neigh­bors1

B1: new neigh­bor seesaw 1 1/4

larks al­le­mande R 1 1/2

B2: part­ner bal­ance and swing

  • 1: For best res­ults, don't clap after this Pet­ron­ella spin–just keep spin­ning into the new neigh­bor seesaw. (To line up with next neigh­bor, robins spin wide/larks stop a little short).

Com­pos­i­tion notes: Writ­ten March 2019 as a wed­ding gift for the ut­terly de­light­ful Michal Richard­son and Josh Marantz (so that Michal could spin as much as pos­sible).

My Partner's Partner* (4x41)

A1: give and take op­pos­ite neigh­bor to robin's home side

this neigh­bor swing (all moves in A2 are with this N)

A2: lines of four go for­ward, on the way back larks roll neigh­bor away2

(up and down) larks al­le­mande R 1x (6)

pass neigh­bor by L shoulder (2)

B1: robins chain to part­ner up and down, and cour­tesy turn to face ACROSS3

half hey ACROSS (robins pass R) and larks ri­co­chet3

B2: op­pos­ite role trail buddy bal­ance and swing—this is your new part­ner!4

  • 1: Your part­ner al­tern­ates every time through the dance between your ori­ginal part­ner and your op­pos­ite-role trail buddy. Robins pro­gress di­ag­on­ally across, larks pro­gress straight across.

  • 2: For a slightly easier dance, you may omit this rollaway and have the larks walk straight for­wad to an al­le­mande R; the flow is a little less nice, but it still works.

  • 3: For this cour­tesy turn, one side turns 1/4 and one side turns 3/4, so it'll feel either longer or shorter than they ex­pect. En­cour­age dan­cers to fill the music in a way that makes sense rather than start­ing the hey early.

  • 4: We love a sur­prise, but when the dan­cers are lin­ing up, please give some warn­ing about the AMOUNT of trail buddy in­ter­ac­tion so no one gets locked into a ~part­ner they don't feel com­fort­able with. (E.g. "line up for a 4-face-4, and note you'll be swinging your trail buddy a LOT.")

All moves through the robins' chain hap­pen UP AND DOWN, and the re­mainder of the dance hap­pens ACROSS (prep the dan­cers on the dif­fer­ent between up/down and across ori­ent­a­tion).

Com­pos­i­tion notes: Writ­ten for Har­ris La­piroff for the Amer­ican Week 2023 auc­tion. The A2 fig­ure lead­ing into a chain is taken from Tavi Mer­rill's Soul Re­versal.

Neighbor, Neighbor On the Wall* (improper) [VIDEO]

A1: long lines for­ward and back

(new) neigh­bor swing

A2: robins chain (to P)

half hey (robins pass R)

B1: part­ner bal­ance and swing

B2: larks al­le­mande L 1 1/2

(same) neigh­bor swing

Com­pos­i­tion notes: Writ­ten for a work­shop at YDW '17 to prac­tice com­mu­nic­a­tion with neigh­bors.

Not a Fever Dream (improper) [VIDEO]

A1: (new) neigh­bor al­le­mande L 1 3/4

half hey (robins by R sh.)

A2: neigh­bor bal­ance and swing

B1: robins al­le­mande R 1 1/2

part­ner swing

B2: larks left-hand chain (to neigh­bor)

right-hand star 1x

Com­pos­i­tion notes: Writ­ten while half-nap­ping in the car en route to Queer Con­tra Dance Camp 2023 and tested under the red­woods, and mi­ra­cu­lously, it worked out of the box!

Pink Martini* (becket R1)

A1: bal­ance the ring and spin right, spin­ning extra to face new neigh­bors

swing new neigh­bor

A2: bal­ance the ring and spin right (2x)

B1: bal­ance ring and larks roll neigh­bor robin away with a half-sashay2

larks pull by R (2), al­le­mande shadow L 1x-ish (6)

B2: look for part­ner, [bal­ance/right shoulder 'round] and swing3

  • 1: Com­ing back into the dance at the middle of A1 or the middle of B1, dan­cers should reenter WRONG (i.e., robin on the left, lark on the right).

  • 2: To in­tro­duce shadow: "larks, look at the lark you're dan­cing with. On one side of them is you part­ner; on the other side of them is your shadow."

  • 3: De­pend­ing on tune boun­ci­ness, can call B2 as either bal­ance and swing or right shoulder 'round and swing (or leave it as dan­cers' choice).

Com­pos­i­tion notes: Writ­ten in sum­mer 2015 for Kate Fais on the oc­ca­sion of her dying her hair pink, and first called Janu­ary 2016 at the Youth Trad Song Week­end con­tra­dance.

Poly Wanna Corner? (improper)

A1: (new) neigh­bor bal­ance and swing, end fa­cing down the hall

A2: down the hall four in line, [ right / left ] side turn as couple/other side turn alone (puts the [ robins / larks ] (act­ives) in the middle)

come back, [ larks / robins ] (on the out­side) gate their neigh­bor up and around to face across

B1: [ robins / larks ] turn same role con­tra-corners

B2: same role bal­ance and swing

C1: (roll out of swing for) part­ner bal­ance and swing

C2: [ robins / larks ] [ RH / LH ] chain across

[ left / right ] hand star 1x to new neigh­bors

Act­ive roles al­tern­ate; dir­ec­tions in brack­ets are for [ robins / larks ] act­ive, re­spect­ively. In the trans­ition into CC, one of the act­ives will have an awk­ward hand trans­ition; it's up to the neigh­bor gat­ing them to pass their right hand into the al­le­mande. In CC, one of your corners is your part­ner, don’t be alarmed. C2 chain is al­ways done by the act­ives (by the hand they're used to chain­ing by: RH for robins, LH for larks).

Star Trek: the Next Generation (becket R) [VIDEO]

A1: hands-across left-hand star 1x

larks LH chain (to N)1

A2: full hey (larks pass L) and robins ri­co­chet

B1: P right shoulder 'round and swing

B2: prom­en­ade across2

left-hand star 1x and walk along the set (robins in the lead) to pro­gress

  • 1: Use­ful to note in teach­ing/prompt­ing that this chain is to NEIGH­BOR; if the star doesn't get all the way around, folks may end up chain­ing to part­ner (or be oth­er­wise dis­or­i­ented).

  • 2: After the prom­en­ade, note dir­ec­tion of pro­gres­sion (i.e. to the RIGHT); dan­cers walk along the set single file in this dir­ec­tion.

Com­pos­i­tion notes: A lov­ing re-ima­gin­a­tion of Mike Richard­son's Star Trek, premiered at Brook­lyn Con­tra in March 2019.

Train Delay* (becket L) [VIDEO]

A1: (slide left to) circle L 3/4

neigh­bor swing

A2: robins chain to part­ner

left-hand star 1x

B1: w/ shadow, RH bal­ance and box the gnat

do-si-do shadow 1 1/21

B2: part­ner bal­ance and swing

  • 1: Pull by R at the start of the do-si-do for some extra mo­mentum. (I nor­mally don't like do-si-do 1.5x, but with the mo­mentum from the pull-by, it fits nicely in the al­lot­ted time!)

Com­pos­i­tion notes: Writ­ten on a stuck train to Prin­ceton, NJ, late 2014, and first called March 2015 in Sil­ver Spring, MD.

Train to Trenton (improper)

A1: (new) neigh­bor right shoulder 'round & swing

A2: circle L 3/4

P swing

B1: robins cross (passing R), neigh­bor left shoulder 'round 1x

robins chain (to P)

B2: prom­en­ade across (w/ P)

circle R 3/4 & pass thru. up/down by the L shoulder

Prom­en­ade may take much less time than dan­cers are used to b/c of the mo­mentum com­ing out of a cour­tesy turn, but this leaves time for a leis­urely circle R and pass-through. Em­phas­ize to dan­cers that the first move of B1 is a cross (no hands!) and NOT a chain.

Com­pos­i­tion notes: Writ­ten on (sur­prise) a train to Trenton (en route to Con­tracopia) fall ‘16, first called soon after at Prin­ceton.

Treasure of the Soda Bar* (improper) [VIDEO]

A1: (new) neigh­bor RH bal­ance and box the gnat

larks al­le­mande L 1 1/2

A2: half hey (pass P by R on the side)

part­ner swing

B1: circle L 3/4

neigh­bor swing

B2: square through (RH to P across, bal­ance and pull by across, pull by L with N on side, re­peat, look along side for a new N)

Com­pos­i­tion notes: A1 is from James Hut­son’s "Treas­ure of the Si­erra Madre". This dance was tested at Soda Bar in Brook­lyn, hence the title, and first called at Glen Echo FND in Au­gust 2016.

Violet Ice* (becket L)

A1: circle L 3/4

half pous­sette w/ part­ner (larks back­ing up first)

A2: mad robin (larks in front first)

5/8 hey (larks L, PR, robins L, NR, larks L)

B1: part­ner right shoulder 'round and swing

B2: circle L all the way

P two-hand turn 1x (4)

(open up to face in) part­ners slide L to meet new neigh­bors (4)

Tim­ing in the A is mushy; both the mad robin and the pous­sette take about 6 counts, so the mad robin starts a little be­fore A2, and the 5/8 hey fin­ishes just about at the end of the A2. En­cour­age dan­cers to fol­low the move­ment rather than try­ing to fit it into the music (i.e. DON'T do the Eng­lish dance thing of try­ing to make the moves fill the phrase), and use B1 to get every­one back to­gether. This dance al­lows for al­most con­stant eye con­tact with part­ner.

Com­pos­i­tion notes: In­spired by Will Mentor's "Lav­ender Snow", premiered at LCFD Spring Dance Camp 2018. The two-hand turn in B2 was a later ad­di­tion, sug­ges­ted by Shoshana Sil­ver­man (fall 2022).