Pimentel:

This is a simple dance which works well for new dancers, and the tune is so wonderfully joyful that everyone seems to enjoy it.

B1. I like each figure to fit two bar phrases, and for all four figures to feel like one fluid movement. Though I do not often use the words “gate” and “half figure eight,” I think newer dancers begin to get the feel for those figures here without even knowing it. That is intentional.

B2. Encourage intermediate dancers to start the star L on their right foot, so the new first corners have a nice transition into the setting at the top of

C. Contemporarily the R&L thru is danced without hands for the pull by or courtesy turn. (Historically, this is questionable.)