A Mass of Ice
by Sue McKinnell 8x32 Reel for 3C
Bars
1-8	1C cast off behind own lines and cast back to place.
9-16	1C dance down between 2C and turn 3C (L on W's, R on M's) then turn 2C (R on W's, L on M's). 1C end facing 1st corners. 2C step up on bars 11-12.
17-24	1C dance corners pass and turn with 1st corners while 2nd corners chase CW halfway, pass partner RS to face 2nd corner positions, dance corners pass and turn with 2nd corner positions while 1st corners chase CW halfway, and end in 2nd place on opposite sides. End 3, 1, 2 all on opposite sides.
25-32	All chase CW halfway then turn partners RH once round.
Repeat.
Suggested music is In Balance from Full Circle by Ian Robertson and Muriel Johnstone. Note: usually in figures like that in bars 17-24 I suggest the corners chase first couple as first couple rounds the ends, but in this dance in the second part of the corners pass and turn, I suggest the corners overtake first couple (or first couple step in from the side a bit so they can pass) since first couple ends on opposite side.
Years ago when I was in high school a good friend told me about a class his uncle was taking in how to use visualization to help remember a list. Then he told me about the one his uncle used to remember the original 13 colonies in the order in which they joined the union. The sixth image is described "balanced on King George's head is a mass of ice" (Massachusetts). It's now 60+ years later and I still remember the whole sequence, so I decided to use the phrases as titles for some dances; this is the sixth of those dances.
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