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Trip to Greene

Trip to Greene, published in 1992 in Gary Roodman's Additional Calculated Figures, is a 3-couple longways dance, with the three familiar Playford-style introductions, each of which is followed by the same chorus, in which the 2s are the active couple. Gary writes of the tune in his notes on the dance, "Petticoat Wag is borrowed from a dance by the same name in Playford's first edition." He goes on to reminisce about the dance's origin: "[The tune] was going through my head while I was riding to a business meeting in Greene, NY. I was stranded by myself in the back of a colleague's mini-van. I began putting this dance to the tune. It's wonderful how dances and dance tunes can be such fine companions when you're alone," to which I'll add, Yes, and even more so when dancing in the company of friends like those in this video. I am so grateful to them for the vigor and care with which they brought Trip to Greene alive. In Gary's original instructions for Part 1, dancers lead up and fall back a double, right hand in right, turn right half, and turn single left. They then lead up a double again, left in left, etc. But in the 1993 CDSS publication GEMS, the second lead is down a double, a variation that appears in other dances, like Pat Shaw's The Waters of Holland or Fried de Metz Herman's reconstruction of Graies Inne Maske. Gary approved this version in an email to me in November 2022. I believe he would have also approved--indeed, roundly applauded--the thrilling sound of Bare Necessities-1 (Jacqueline Schwab, alas, could not join them), which powered a whole afternoon of dancing at Country Dancers of Westchester on December 3, 2023, Orly Krasner calling. The event truly lived up to its name--Holiday Delight. --Paul Ross