Picking Up Sticks

A lively 3couple dance from 1651 done at the Village Church in New York on a regular CDNY Tuesday night. Music by Robin Russell, piano; Tom Phillips, violin, and Zadie Lawler, flute. From the top, dancers are Beverly Francis and David Chandler, Dorothy Cummings and Orly Krasner, and Ellie Hanson and Bob Erenburg. Discerning dancers will notice that in this version all the zigzag progressions in the first figure (sometimes called the shoelace figure) are by the right shoulder. In New York and Westchest