Well I wrote this for a family dance….. could be done in trios. 


Kids Family Waltz
by Claire Takemori (Asheville NC) 

families in sm rings (2 adults 1-2 kids), in big circle

A1 -----------
(6,6 ) In and Out, Circle Left
(12)  2 adults Arch/Kids Duck thru
A2 -----------
(6,6 ) In and Out, Circle Right
(12)  Arch/Kids Duck to Lines (spokes around the circle) 
B1 -----------
(12) lines promenade big circle
(12) Roll ends across (Right end rolls in front to other end of the line) 
B2 -----------
cont. (keep rolling until kids are back in the middle) 
 end in circle.  

Claire Takemori,   Dance Caller 
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> Message: 1
> Date: Tue, 04 Feb 2025 08:35:33 +0000
> From: [email protected]
> Subject: [Callers] waltz circle mixer with trios
> To: Shared Weight Contra Callers
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> Hello callers,
> 
> Apologies for the non-contra question: I'm looking for a dance that a
> musician remembers and would like called.  He pictures trios facing
> around a circle like spokes, waltzing somehow and the middle dancer
> progressing to the next trio.
> 
> Please let me know if you have a dance that matches this description!
> 
> David Kreiss-Tomkins
> 
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> Message: 2
> Date: Tue, 4 Feb 2025 12:42:05 +0000
> From: Mo Waddington <[email protected]>
> Subject: [Callers] Re: waltz circle mixer with trios
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> I can think of 2 dances in that formation that aren't waltzes and 
> thumbing through CDM (Tony Parkes 1967 ed) finds more:
> 
> Silly threesome ( Community Dance Manual book5.16)
> 
> Rebecca's Roundabout (John Chapman)
> 
> Kielder Schottische (CDM book 3.4)
> 
> Russian Ballet (CDM bk 3.5)
> 
> Texas Rpogressive Threesome (CDM 5.17)
> 
> Nope, can't find one with waltzing
> 
> On 04/02/2025 08:35, None via Contra Callers wrote:
>> Hello callers,
>> 
>> Apologies for the non-contra question: I'm looking for a dance that a
>> musician remembers and would like called.  He pictures trios facing
>> around a circle like spokes, waltzing somehow and the middle dancer
>> progressing to the next trio.
>> 
>> Please let me know if you have a dance that matches this description!
>> 
>> David Kreiss-Tomkins
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> Message: 3
> Date: Tue, 4 Feb 2025 09:19:43 -0500
> From: Michael Dyck <[email protected]>
> Subject: [Callers] Re: waltz circle mixer with trios
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> On 2025-02-04 3:35 a.m., Mo via Contra Callers wrote:
>> Hello callers,
>> 
>> Apologies for the non-contra question: I'm looking for a dance that a
>> musician remembers and would like called.  He pictures trios facing
>> around a circle like spokes, waltzing somehow and the middle dancer
>> progressing to the next trio.
> At the Caller's Box, this is "Circle of Threesomes" formation, with single 
> progression:
> https://www.ibiblio.org/contradance/thecallersbox/?formation=Circle+of+Threesomes&progression=Single
> 
> Currently, there are 20 such, but none of them involves waltzing, or is 
> paired with waltz-time music.
> 
> I don't think waltzing would fit very well in that formation. If two in each 
> threesome are waltzing, that leaves out the third. You could have (e.g.) the 
> center person waltz with each other person in turn, but that would take up a 
> lot of time. (Say, 8 bars each, 16 bars total of waltzing?)
> 
> More significantly, waltzing is asymmetric, so if the dance doesn't want 
> awkward pairings, it would have to dictate (e.g.) that each trio consists of 
> one 'lead' between two 'follows', with no rearrangement after the 
> progression. Which is not unheard of, but the examples are fairly old, and 
> might not go over that well these days (depending on the context).
> 
> -Michael
> 
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> Message: 4
> Date: Tue, 4 Feb 2025 18:14:22 GMT
> From: Colin Hume <[email protected]>
> Subject: [Callers] Re: waltz circle mixer with trios
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> On Tue, 4 Feb 2025 09:19:43 -0500, Michael Dyck via Contra Callers wrote:
>> I don't think waltzing would fit very well in that formation. If two in each 
>> threesome are waltzing, that leaves out
>> the third.
> 
> You're assuming that a dance in waltz time involves rotating with a ballroom 
> hold - that's not true.
> There are certainly old dances such as "Duke of Kent's Waltz" and "The Bath 
> Waltz" which don't,
> and there's no reason why there couldn't be modern ones too.
> 
> Colin Hume
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> Date: Tue, 04 Feb 2025 18:27:19 +0000
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> I have a funny feeling I have danced this dance before, but so vague is my 
> memory there's no way to be sure. I recall that there is indeed a portion of 
> the dance where the middle person dances an individual waltz with the person 
> on the right, then with the person on the left, and there may have been 
> something like a hey for 3 (with hands) and some promenading.
> 
> Hopefully that helps jog the memory.
> 
> 
> Greg Allan, Winnipeg
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> On Tuesday, February 4th, 2025 at 12:35 AM, None via Contra Callers 
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>> Hello callers,
>> 
>> Apologies for the non-contra question: I'm looking for a dance that a
>> musician remembers and would like called. He pictures trios facing
>> around a circle like spokes, waltzing somehow and the middle dancer
>> progressing to the next trio.
>> 
>> Please let me know if you have a dance that matches this description!
>> 
>> David Kreiss-Tomkins
>> _______________________________________________
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> Message: 6
> Date: Tue, 4 Feb 2025 14:10:43 -0500
> From: Allison and Hunt Smith <[email protected]>
> Subject: [Callers] Re: waltz circle mixer with trios
> To: Mo Waddington <[email protected]>
> Cc: [email protected]
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> This certainly sounds as though it might be an English Country Dance.
> Leah's Waltz by Fried Herman comes to mind
> https://youtu.be/Zp_5pf3Xr6M?si=z-hMahQjyZmFDqtE
> 
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> On Tue, Feb 4, 2025 at 7:47 AM Mo Waddington via Contra Callers <
> [email protected]> wrote:
> 
>> I can think of 2 dances in that formation that aren't waltzes and
>> thumbing through CDM (Tony Parkes 1967 ed) finds more:
>> 
>> Silly threesome ( Community Dance Manual book5.16)
>> 
>> Rebecca's Roundabout (John Chapman)
>> 
>> Kielder Schottische (CDM book 3.4)
>> 
>> Russian Ballet (CDM bk 3.5)
>> 
>> Texas Rpogressive Threesome (CDM 5.17)
>> 
>> Nope, can't find one with waltzing
>> 
>> On 04/02/2025 08:35, None via Contra Callers wrote:
>>> Hello callers,
>>> 
>>> Apologies for the non-contra question: I'm looking for a dance that a
>>> musician remembers and would like called.  He pictures trios facing
>>> around a circle like spokes, waltzing somehow and the middle dancer
>>> progressing to the next trio.
>>> 
>>> Please let me know if you have a dance that matches this description!
>>> 
>>> David Kreiss-Tomkins
>>> _______________________________________________
>>> Contra Callers mailing list -- [email protected]
>>> To unsubscribe send an email to
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> Date: Tue, 4 Feb 2025 14:32:54 -0500
> From: Seth Seeger <[email protected]>
> Subject: [Callers] Fwd: Research Study on Gender-Free Contra Dance
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> Hello callers,
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> This just came across my inbox, and I told them I would forward it to the 
> list.  I know nothing more than is in this email.
> 
> Seth
> 
>> Begin forwarded message:
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>> From: "Coladangelo, LP" <[email protected]>
>> Subject: Research Study on Gender-Free Contra Dance Callers
>> Date: February 4, 2025 at 11:24:21 AM EST
>> To: "[email protected]" <[email protected]>, 
>> "[email protected]" <[email protected]>
>> 
>> Hello Chris and Seth (and members of the Shared Weight community),
>> My name is L.P. Coladangelo and I am a doctoral candidate in Communication 
>> and Information at Kent State University. I am conducting dissertation 
>> research on the knowledge practices of gender-free contra dance callers. In 
>> order to complete my study, I am asking for participants to fill out a 
>> questionnaire about their expertise, their calling practice, their social 
>> networks in the dance community, and their understanding of the culture and 
>> values of gender-free contra dance.
>> If you would be so kind as to share this study participation announcement 
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>> Thank you in advance for your help.
>> Best,
>> L.P. Coladangelo (he/him)
>> PhD Candidate, College of Communication and Information, Kent State 
>> University
>> ****************
>> Study Title: Exploring Knowledge Practices of Callers as Core Practitioners 
>> of Gender-Free Contra Dance
>> Principal Investigator Name: L.P. Coladangelo (PhD Candidate), Dr. Lala 
>> Hajibayova (Advisor)
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> Date: Tue, 4 Feb 2025 20:04:48 -0500
> From: Michael Dyck <[email protected]>
> Subject: [Callers] Re: waltz circle mixer with trios
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> On 2025-02-04 1:14 p.m., Colin Hume via Contra Callers wrote:
>> On Tue, 4 Feb 2025 09:19:43 -0500, Michael Dyck via Contra Callers wrote:
>>> I don't think waltzing would fit very well in that formation.
>>> If two in each threesome are waltzing, that leaves out the third.
>> 
>> You're assuming that a dance in waltz time involves rotating with a ballroom 
>> hold
> 
> No, I'm not assuming that at all. (I'm quite aware of the distinction.)
> The original message didn't say "waltz time", it said "waltzing somehow",
> which to me sounds like the dance-form, not the time signature.
> 
> -Michael
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