I've danced "The weevil" three times in very different settings: once at a guinea pig dance, once at a weekend workshop, and once at our regular barn dance on a nasty weather night when the caller ran out of triplets after two+ hours. The dance is sufficiently different from contra or square
On 6/8/2017 6:35 PM, Mac Mckeever via Callers wrote:
I have a dance called The Weevil by Richard Mason
It is a 7 person set (3 face 4)
It looks like it would be fun - but I have never had the opportunity to
try it out. Anyone had any experience with this one?
The Weevil
I have a dance called The Weevil by Richard Mason
It is a 7 person set (3 face 4)
It looks like it would be fun - but I have never had the opportunity to try it
out. Anyone had any experience with this one?
The Weevil
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The Weevil
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You might have seen it already, but I'm a fan of Sherry Nevin's "Monkey in
the Middle." She technically calls it a square, but I think of it as a 9
person circle mixer.
Monkey in the Middle, by Sherry Nevins
9-person set: circle of 8, plus 1 in the middle
A1 Circle left (8)
I recently called Pat Shaw’s K & E for the first time. I think of it as a
contra dance, in its own unusual formation, though I guess one is more likely
to encounter it in an English dance setting. The dance has some challenges, and
might be suitable for an advanced session, but I’m happy to say
Howdy Folks!
Interested to know of dances you’ve found that are NOT contra or square dances.
Catagorically fun dances, dances for irregular numbers of couples, circles of
any sort, odd formations, etc.
Matters not what tradition they may come from or if you think of the dance as
strictly for
