I led a dance for visually impaired students a few years back. We started with
a large circle and then I let go of the person in my left had and led the snake
around the hall. At one point we went out a door to an outside deck and went
back in another door. Back in the hall, I led the Spiral. The kids loved it!
After doing a couple of other traditional dances, the kids wanted to do the
Spiral again before we ended for the night.
Helle
On Tuesday, February 14, 2023 at 03:08:34 PM MST, Jacob or Nancy Bloom via
Contra Callers <[email protected]> wrote:
I wonder how many hundreds of times I've led this!
I also usually add this on to the last dance of the evening. Call for everyone
to promenade into one big circle, then tell them to join hands and circle left.
That's your last call for a few minutes. (You will want to warn the band before
the last dance that they will be playing for longer than usual!) Join the
circle, drop your left hand, and start spiraling in. Turn back over your left
shoulder and spiral out again, passing face to face with everyone else in the
line. Lead the line out to a big circle, join the line into a circle again, and
(three minutes after you called "circle left") you call, "And back to the
right!"
I could tell you a few more variations that can be done of this, but you have
already gotten lots of good advice about how to do it. It sounds like you need
reassurance that you can do it. You can. Just remember that the point is for
everyone to see each other and enjoy being together, and you'll do fine.
Jacob
On Tue, Feb 14, 2023, 2:03 PM Rich Goss via Contra Callers
<[email protected]> wrote:
I called one of these once at a school. About 20 people back, a little boy’s
pants kept falling down. The spiral stopped each time so he could pull them
back up, then started back up. Everyone had a good laugh over that, including
the band.
Rich
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