Two Leaf Clover - teaching
The audio recording is from a dance at the Ballard Eagles in Washington state. The full audio (two sides of a 45-minute cassette) can be heard on the Internet Archive.
Fred Park described the figure thus:
"This dance figure is from Western North Carolina. It is attributed to the dances that happened at the original Farmer's Ball, in Asheville. In a ring of four with hands touching but not gripped, each dancer raises their own partner's hand and the lady turns her back on her partner then backs under their joined hands ending on his left side with her back against his left arm. The two women are now side by side facing opposite directions. The men always face the direction of the woman nearest them.
"To reverse the Two Leaf Clover, the women slide one step to their Left trading places, back to back, with the other woman in their set of four while the men simply turn on the spot to both receive this new woman and no one lets go of the ring. Please stress that to raise one's hands in the air at any moment [during these changes] will likely "undo" the figure."
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Fred Park described the figure thus:
"This dance figure is from Western North Carolina. It is attributed to the dances that happened at the original Farmer's Ball, in Asheville. In a ring of four with hands touching but not gripped, each dancer raises their own partner's hand and the lady turns her back on her partner then backs under their joined hands ending on his left side with her back against his left arm. The two women are now side by side facing opposite directions. The men always face the direction of the woman nearest them.
"To reverse the Two Leaf Clover, the women slide one step to their Left trading places, back to back, with the other woman in their set of four while the men simply turn on the spot to both receive this new woman and no one lets go of the ring. Please stress that to raise one's hands in the air at any moment [during these changes] will likely "undo" the figure."