Key to abbreviations used in the routines

 

Basic Stuff
M           Man
W           Woman
L           Left
R           Right
CW          Clockwise
CCW         Counter-Clockwise

 

 

Body Parts
L-elbow     Left Elbow
W-back      Woman's Back
MR-hand     Man's Right Hand
WL-wrist    Woman's Left Wrist

  (I sometimes will leave out “-“.  So it could appear as Lelbow, Wback, etc.)

 

 

Turns
WRT         Woman Right Turn
WLT         Woman Left Turn
MRT         Man Right Turn
MLT         Man Left Turn
2WRT        Double Woman Right Turn

multWLT     multiple (unspecified number of) WLT

 

 

Hands
L-L         Man's Left Hand holding Woman's Left Hand
L-R         Man's Left Hand holding Woman's Right Hand
R-R         Man's Right Hand holding Woman's Right Hand
R-L         Man's Right Hand holding Woman's Left Hand
R-R:L-L     R-R hands above and L-L hands below (“crossed hands with right hands on top”)

L-L:R-R     L-L hands above and R-R hands below (“crossed hands with left hands on top”)

L-R:R-L     “non-crossed hands”

 

 

Moves
XB          Cross-Body Lead
XB:WLT      Cross-Body Lead with WLT (“inside” turn).  This is actually a total of 1.5 turns for the woman.

XB:WRT      Cross-Body Lead with WRT (“outside” turn).  This is actually a total of 1.5 turns for the woman.
R-R:XB      Cross-Body Lead with R-R

L-R:WRT     WRT with L-R hands
RE:WRT      Released WRT
RE:R-L:WRT  WRT by releasing R-L hands

 

 

New Terms (added July 2005)

XB:rev      Cross Body Lead with reverse direction turn. During regular XB woman turns half way to left. Instead she turns half way to right.

oXB         Opposite Side Cross Body Lead. During regular XB, man is to right of woman. Instead he is on the left. Also woman will turn half way to right, instead of half way to the left.

oXB:WRT     Opposite Side Cross Body Lead with WRT (“inside” turn). This is actually a total of 1.5 turns for the woman.
 

In the listing of the routines each dot (line) represents 8 counts of the music.

"§§" represents a division between the 1st and 2nd measures (1^st measure is counts 1-4, 2^nd measure is counts 5-8). This symbol is not used much though.