====== Clockwork ====== {{page>:dances:border:clockwork-description}} ===== Detailed Description ===== === Chorus === Stand in place for beats 1-6. Stepping through the rest of the chorus (beats 7-16). Beat 1: Clash with self (right over left). Beat 2: Hold left stick out horizontally at approximately 45º angle toward the person to your left. Right stick makes a large circle and clashes with the person to your right. Beat 3: Clash with self. Beat 4: Basket clash (right hard, forehand) while turning 90º to the left. Beat 5: Clash with self while turning 90º to the left (now facing outwards). Beat 6: Basket clash (left hand, backhand) while turning 90º to the left (now facing counter-clockwise around the circle). Beats 7-8: Keep sticks in basket and dance one place counter-clockwise around the circle. Beat 9: Clash with self (everyone). Beat 10: First corners (places, not faces) clash while crossing. Beat 11: Clash with self. Beat 12: Second corners clash while crossing. Beat 13: Clash with self. Beat 14: Basket clash (left hand, backhand). Beats 15-16: Keep sticks in backet and dance one place counter-clockwise (back to home position). ---- === Figures === == Dance On == Dancers start from the audience straight out from their positions. Beats 1-8: All dancers dance from the audience to a set. Beat 9: #1 puts up left stick Beat 10: #1 clashes right stick onto left. (Sticks remain in place after clash.) Beat 11: #4 clashes left stick into the clump. Beat 12: #4 clashes right stick into the clump. Beats 13-14: #3 repeats same sequence Beats 15-16: #2 repeats same sequence == [Chorus] == {{page>dances:border:figures:square-hey}} Sticks are clashed on the first two beats (self, partner) of every 4-beat sequence. == [Chorus] == == Escapement == The figure starts with first corners turning 45º to the right and second corners turning 45º to the left. Beat 1: first corners clash with self. Beat 2: first corners pass inside of the second corners, clashing both sticks (right with each other; left with stationary dancers). Beats 3-4: all dancers turn 90º over their left shoulders. (For the first corners, this is 90º from their facing-out positions.) Beat 5: second corners clash with self. Beat 6: second corners pass inside of the first corners, clashing both sticks (right with each other; left with stationary dancers). Beats 7-8: all dancers turn 90º over their left shoulders. Repeat on beats 9-16. == [Chorus] == {{page>dances:border:figures:square-bombast}} Sticks are clashed on the first two beats (self, partner) of every 4-beat sequence. (The partner clash is only by the dancers who are hooking around each other.) == [Chorus] == == Tosses == Beats 1: First corners toss; second corners clash with self. Beat 2: First corners clash with self; second corners toss. Beats 3-4: All four dancers move one place counter-clockwise while twirling clockwise (over their right shoulder). Repeat sequence 3 more times on beats 5-16. == [Final Chorus] == Same as the other choruses except clash right stick into basket on the last beat. {{youtube>WWqZOotOHjU?large}} ===== Tune ===== {{page>:dances:border:clockwork-tune}}