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Slip the Clutch
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Choreography for Patter Teaching with Singing Call Options:
Teaching Tips:
Slip the Clutch
A.) Many teach this action before Shoot the Star as an easy way to get out of Thars.
B.) Centers must stop to meet the outsiders.
C.) Drop near hands, maintain hand hold with center star and move forward to take hold of next dancer.
D.) Can be done multiple times in a row or asked to keep moving forward until some other action is called.
More teaching suggestions:
— Outside dancers will stay outside and reconnect with the same arm.
Quick quote: “Let go and move ahead.”
Teaching Standard Applications:
Break:
All Four Ladies Chain 3/4,
Circle Left,
Allemande Left, Go Forward Two,
Men wheel into an Allemande Thar,
(Boys back up), Slip the Clutch, Left Allemande,
Swing and Promenade
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Break:
Allemande Left to an Allemande Thar,
Go forward 2 and the Gentlemen Star,
(Boys back up), Slip the Clutch,
Skip one, Allemande Left,
Grand Right and Left,
[Swing and] Promenade
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Break:
Circle Left,
Walk Around the Corner, Turn Partner Left,
Men swing into the middle of an Allemande Thar,
(Boys back up),
Slip the Clutch, Left Allemande,
Swing and Promenade
* * * * * * * * * * * * * * *
Break:
Circle Left (8),
Break it up with a Do Paso,
(Turn Partner Left, Corner Right, Partner Left),
Boys swing into an Allemande Thar,
(Boys back up), Slip the Clutch, Left Allemande,
[Swing and] Promenade
* * * * * * * * * * * * * * *
Break:
Walk Around the Corner, Come home for a Do Paso,
(Partner Left, Corner Right, Partner Left),
Men wheel into an Allemande Thar,
(Boys back up), Slip the Clutch,
Left Allemande,
Swing and Promenade
* * * * * * * * * * * * * * *
Break:
All Four Ladies Chain across,
Four Ladies Star Right back to a Do Paso,
(Partner Left, Corner Right, Partner Left),
Men wheel into an Allemande Thar,
(Boys back up), Slip the Clutch,
Left Allemande, [Swing and] Promenade
* * * * * * * * * * * * * * *
Break (Wrong Way Thar):
Circle Left,
Four Boys Star Right,
Turn Partner Left full around to your Corner,
Turn Corner Right halfway and Boys wheel into a Wrong Way Thar,
(Boys back up), Slip the Clutch,
Partner Swing and Promenade
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Break (Wrong Way Thar):
Walk around the Corner,
Turn Partner Left,
Back to Corner for a Right Arm Turn,
Boys into a Wrong Way Thar,
(Boys back up), Slip the Clutch,
Partner Dosado,
Promenade