HIT AND 'MISS

Auckland Star, Volume LXVII, Issue 181, 1 August 1936, Page 7 (Supplement)

HIT AND 'MISS

Another Dance for Four

EXPLAINED BY MISS M. BLACKBURNE.

This little dance should not give you mucl» trouble to learn. Your difficulty later on will be to remember the points of difference between it and "Heartsease." It has a sort of double chorus, eight bars of music in the first part, and the second has only six. In the last six bars you dance the square "hey" and the music seems to leave you expecting something else to happen which "never comes. We are so used to these dance tunes in phrases of eight bars (16 counts) that when

CHORUS I.—Part 1. Bars 1-2: Run forward four steps. Bars 3-4: The lat man and 2nd woman turn to face the "top" and he leads her with the right hand four running steps "up"; at the same time the 2nd man and Ist woman turn to face the "bottom," and, taking right hands, go four running steps forward. Bar* 5-6: All now turn, reversing direction, and, changing to left hands, the same men lead their present partners forward four running steps. Bars 7-8: All now turn to face as in original positions, and partners, taking right hands, "fall backwards a double" (four running steps). (See photograph No. 20.)

FORMATION. — This is exactly as it was in "Heartsease." (See diagram.) VERSE I.—Music No. 1. Bars 1-8: All partners move forward a double, without joining hands (see photograph No. 19, which, unfortunately, shows right hands joined), and fall back a double. Repeat all this again. Running step.

CHORUS 1. — Second Half. Ban 1-6: Partners face each other and do four changes of a square "hey" •with a running step. First change: Partner* pass right shoulders, changing placet (see photograph No. 21). Second change: Traverse the second side ol the square, passing left shoulder to left with contrary. Third change: Continue passing along the third side of the square and pass right should et , with partner. (See photograph No. 22, showing this about to happen.) Fourth change: Pass left shoulder with /;'tv

opposite, which brings every dancer back to the original position again. Photograph No. 22 shows hands being used. It is wise to do this until the "hey" has been mastered. It is certainly a great help to allow "handling," but actually in "Hit and Miss" hands aVe not taken in the "hey." VERSE 2.—Music No. 1. Bars 1-8: All partners "side" with each other twice, using a running step (16 counts). CHORUS 2.—Parts 1 and 2. Bars 1-8 and Bars 1-6: Do the entire chorus exactly as before. VERSE 3.—Music No. 1. Bars 1-4: Partners "arm right." Bars 5-8: Partners "arm left."

CHORUS 3.—Parts 1 and 2. Bars 1-8 and Bars 1-6: As for the first and second chorus, finishing with a bow and curtsy. This dance is recorded by Columbia No. DO 121, coupled with " Heartsease," " Fine Companion" and " Beggar Boy."

NEXT WEEK: OAKEN LEAVES.