Re: [Callers] Family dances for 3-9 people?
This has worked for me: 3 or 4 couples longways. Try to get talls and smalls mixed in each line but partners are across from each other. A1 1-4 Lines go forward and back. 5-8 Link arms in line and as a unit, pass left shoulder (bottom person in one line, top in the other) and wheel around to face in in the other line's place. A2 repeat to home B1 Top couple freestyle their way down the middle and back - tell em they can dance together any way they want - and peel off to the bottom B2: Everyone else steps up and swings their partner. There's enough flex in B2 to make up for any confusion in B1. I've done this for slightly-drunk Civil War reenactors and for mostly-11-year-olds. I designed it for three-face-three but it works with four face four. Feel free to change B1 to two-hand turn and cast off, or lace-the-boot to the bottom. You need to run it at least twice because people want another chance at the showoffy part. I don't have a title for this but I made it up (because I needed something right then) at a Firefly-themed birthday party a week after being inspired by Susan Michaels's brief family dance seminar at Queer Contra weekend, so I could call it "Firefly Jig", "Susan's Reel". I swiped the forward and back and march and wheel from a three-face-three Sicilian called "Three Meet" so there might be a name choice there. This one probably needs 11-year-old or older, and a band that can play "Sellenger's Round". $DISK9:[WINSTON.TEXT.DANCES.APW]SELLENGERS_WHEEL.TXT;2 SELLENGER'S WHEEL Alan Winston, 11/16/2003 cut-down version of Sellenger's Round for 3-7 people, no partners needed. Formation: circle of people facing in Tune in Barnes, 5x. I: A: Slipping circle (*really* slipping) left and back to the right. B: Chorus (same each time). Set forward right and left fall back straight still facing in, set right and left turn single Repeat II: A: Lead into the center and back Repeat B: As above III: A: right hand star (contra style wrist grip keeps you from having a mess) left hands back B: As above IV: A: Basket left and _keep going_, not back to the right. B: As above (Finish with slipping circle again, but if you're repeating don't do slipping circle twice in a row - it's lame). Hope this helps! -- Alan On 2/18/16 10:52 PM, Claire Takemori via Callers wrote: Hi Everyone, In preparation for calling my first family dance on March 6, I’d like to find some family-friendly dances that are for very small groups, like 3-9 people. Ideally NOT proper triplets, or 3x3s (already have a few of those) and NO gender roles. I’ve got a good collection of simple dances for 10++ people, circles, lines, etc. I’m preparing for a crowd of up to 100 but if it dwindles down to 1-2 families or starts slow, I’d like something for small groups too. Thanks! Claire Takemori ___ Callers mailing list Callers@lists.sharedweight.net http://lists.sharedweight.net/listinfo.cgi/callers-sharedweight.net
Re: [Callers] Family dances for 3-9 people?
Here's a dance I made up sometime -- don't quite remember when, for 7, but works with 9 (or even 11...) The Millennium Bug Erik Hoffman Written for a weird New Year... Formation is a longways set of couples facing the odd person out who is "The Bug" A1 Essentially, up a double towards The Bug, but I call it a with-your-partner forward and back then make lines a the sides and the bug strolls down the center A2 Unzip the Line: When The Bug gets to the bottom, he or she keeps facing down, crosses his or her arms, makes an arch with the higher arm, and backs up, guiding the low arm people under the arm B1 After the ends of the lines come out: Circle Left, then Right B2 The Bug Swings Someone (The Bug chooses first!) then the rest choose a Partner and Swing. The dancer with no partner is The New Bug and goes to the Top, others end forming a longways set facing The Bug Originally conceived for 7 people, and works well in that size, and works well for 9, too. ~erik hoffman oakland, ca On 2/18/2016 10:52 PM, Claire Takemori via Callers wrote: Hi Everyone, In preparation for calling my first family dance on March 6, I’d like to find some family-friendly dances that are for very small groups, like 3-9 people. Ideally NOT proper triplets, or 3x3s (already have a few of those) and NO gender roles. I’ve got a good collection of simple dances for 10++ people, circles, lines, etc. I’m preparing for a crowd of up to 100 but if it dwindles down to 1-2 families or starts slow, I’d like something for small groups too. Thanks! Claire Takemori ___ Callers mailing list Callers@lists.sharedweight.net http://lists.sharedweight.net/listinfo.cgi/callers-sharedweight.net
[Callers] Family dances for 3-9 people?
Hi Everyone, In preparation for calling my first family dance on March 6, I’d like to find some family-friendly dances that are for very small groups, like 3-9 people. Ideally NOT proper triplets, or 3x3s (already have a few of those) and NO gender roles. I’ve got a good collection of simple dances for 10++ people, circles, lines, etc. I’m preparing for a crowd of up to 100 but if it dwindles down to 1-2 families or starts slow, I’d like something for small groups too. Thanks! Claire Takemori
