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Siege of Ennis

After describing the three basic steps necessary to dance the Siege of Ennis, it is time to explain how they should be united. I know, I know, it's been a long time ... I also, unfortunately, I was forced to take a break from the course. If you need a ripassino you can always look at the following posts:

Skip
Rising step
Side step


But let us now. The Siege of Ennis is a dance that ideally describes a siege. According to information I received from my teacher, the sequence of steps is the approach the city walls, the attempt to go beyond the walls and the duel.

Let's see them in order, starting from the starting position. We have as a set consisting of two rows of four (two pairs per line) facing each other. The members of each pair are held by the hand inside the cup itself, intertwining the top. The woman is the right man. The free arm is always stretched out along the side.

1. Two skip forward, starting with the right foot, two skip back.
2. As the first point.
3. Lateral displacement: the couple who is on the right moves to the left, past the couple who had the side; the same time the pair left door on the right, passing behind the other couple. The shift is done using the side step closed by rising step.
4. Lateral displacement: as point 3, with this further shift the couple returned to each place.
5. Duel: people who are in the external position in the set are close with and skip right on the second beat of the music go hand in hand side, cross on top and keeping your elbows bent, and rotate clockwise to four times, always with skip step, the fourth time you leave and reverse around the left hand shaking. The four people who are on the inside of the set do the same thing, forming a group to the center. The women put their hands over those of men. After completing the two laps each returns to its posto.
6. Oltrepassamento delle mura: le coppie si avvicinano di nuovo con due skip (partendo sempre con il destro) e si allontanano con due skip all’indietro. A questo punto le coppie si incrociano con quattro skip avanti: le coppie che stanno dalla parte dei musicisti si danno la mano e alzano le braccia a formare degli archi, le altre coppie oltrepasseranno gli archi passando alla destra della persona che hanno di fronte. In questo modo ogni riga scalerà di una posizione e si formeranno nuovi set.

Attenzione: la riga che arriva in fondo e non trova un’altra riga di persone di fronte a sé rimane in pausa per un’intera sequenza. I componenti delle coppie si scambiano di posto, per cui nella sequenza seguente chi si trovava outside the set is inside and vice versa.

You can find the whole sequence in this video , or in this: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EuiM8GQ_NR8 , however, useful to understand the steps.