Opposite The person you are facing. Poussette Two dancers face, give both hands, and change places as a couple with two adjacent dancers. One pair moves a double toward the right wall, the other to the left wall. In this half-poussette, couple pass around each other diagonally . To complete the poussette, move in the opposite direction.
Dancers end in original places.
Right and left is found in many original dance descriptions, but Circular hey is the term used by Cecil Sharp to describe the movement. Single Two steps in any direction, closing feet on the second step. In a Straight hey for three , the first dancer faces the other two and passes right shoulders with the second dancer, left shoulders with the third, the other dancers moving and passing the indicated shoulder. On making the last pass, each dancer makes a whole turn on the end, bearing right if the last pass was by the right shoulder, left if the last pass was by the left, and reenters the figure returning to place. Each dancer describes a figure of 8 pattern.