Texas Progressive Threesome

Threesome

Music

Lord Moira, The Staffordshire Hornpipe or any similar tune

Form

3 behind 3, each man with 2 partners, ballroom direction round the room; each man takes his partners’ outside hands, girls joining inside hands behind him.

Dance

All start left foot, Step-close-step (1 bar).

Right foot, Step-close-step (1 bar)

4 walking steps (2 bar)

Left heel, left toe, left-right-left, - here the girls drop the inside hands and let the man turn them to face him. (2 bar)

Right heel, right toe, right-left-right, - here the man moves forward, gently propelling the girls towards the man behind him. (2 bar)

From the beginning with new partners.

Source

• Community Dances Manual 5, edition 1

German