Havana (also known as Turn Left in Havana ) is a club-passing pattern for four jugglers. The pattern is a type of rotating feed, much like a feed weave. Feeders do a 2-count ("everies") while feedees do a 6-count. All passes are right hand tramline.
There is always one feeder, but the feeder changes throughout. When feeding, jugglers begin passing to feedee B and make five passes in a windshield-wiper fashion (to positions B-C-D-C-B, although the jugglers in those positions will be B-C-D-B-C).
After the first pass, feedees B and C begin to switch places in a clockwise motion. After the places have been exchanged and the feeder has given their 4th pass, B takes one additional step forward and turns counter-clockwise (left), such that D will be the new feeder.
Once A finishes their 5th pass, D immediately begins their feed cycle starting on their left. A has no break between A's 5th pass and D's first pass.
Some find that practicing a 4-person feed weave with a single feeder is a good warm up for this pattern.
The "Havana" pattern was known under that name in California by 2011, [1] and is collected in Aidan Burns' "New Highgate Collection" under the name "Havana feed" by 2014. [2]
The pattern was recorded by The Passing Zone in 2019 under the name "Havana Feed." [3]
In Havana, the position in the center of the triangle is "Havana," and each juggler will turn 120 degrees left after their first pass from that position; thus "turn left at Havana" is a mnemonic for that part of the pattern, [2] and quickly came to be used as a metonym for the pattern itself.
The name of the "Albuquerque" variation refers to a running gag in Merrie Melodies cartoons in which Bugs Bunny often ends up in outlandish locations by failing to "take a left turn at Albuquerque." Versions of the gag appear in at least Herr Meets Hare (1943), [4] Frigid Hare (1949), and Bully for Bugs (1953).