A nice easy dance for introducing Contra Corners is "Down by the Riverside" by
Melanie Axel-Lute:
http://www.maxellute.net/down.html
The dance is a progressive 3-face-3, ending with a basket swing in B2 after
which dancer open out with anyone in the middle, facing a new threesome. Like
Erik Hoffman's "Walpole Dollhouse",
http://lists.sharedweight.net/pipermail/callers-sharedweight.net/2013-May/006143.html
you can think of it as a much simplified version of Pat Shaw's "Walpole
Cottage".
On account of the progression, dancers get to lead the contra corners figure
with a succession of different opposite active (center) dancers. Thus, dancers
who don't quite understand the figure are likely eventually to run into
counterparts who can send guide them in the correct direction. By contrast in
a triplet, triple-minor, or duple-minor setting, a confused dancer may be asked
to lead contra corners with the same equally-confused partner time after time.
--Jim
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