Absence of Forethought

24 jig for couple facing couple around the room

BarsFigure
1-4Women dance back-to-back on the diagonal while the men dance clockwise round the outside of the set halfway.
5-8Both couples dance right hands across once around.
9-12Men dance back-to-back on the diagonal while the women dance clockwise around outside of the set halfway.
13-16Both couples dance right hands across once around (dancing couples have changed places, men with partner at right).
17-20With partner, both couples dance back-to-back.
21-24Both couples set to partner once advancing, turn partner halfway with both hands, setting opening up to face a new couple to repeat the dance (men release women’s right hands out of their left).

Devised by Ron Wallace with grateful acknowledgement to Joycelyn Hamilton. Published in 1985 by the RSCDS Twin Cities Branch in The Blue Ribbon Collection.