[Callers] Dances For Short Line

[Rich Sbardella via Callers]

Bob Livingston has another great Dip and Dive for a five couple square.
Perhaps he will share it.
Rich

On Fri, Oct 16, 2015 at 5:33 PM, Tom Hinds via Callers <
callers at lists.sharedweight.net> wrote:

> Laur,
>
> Even with great music and calling it's tough to create excitement when the
> hall feels empty.  I've tried to think of everything I can do to make that
> kind of evening fun.  My personal choice is to call a large proportion of
> contras where the dancers swing their partner not their neighbor.  The
> logic is this:  If you swing your neighbor in every dance, especially early
> in the evening, what is there to look forward to?  With partner swing
> dances only, when you get a new partner you haven't swung him/her 10 times
> before hand.
>
> In general I usually run contras until everyone has swung their neighbors
> and then end the dance.  So for me contras with a partner only swing is
> preferred when numbers are small.
>
> And I include many dances that are in other formations and also take some
> time to teach and dance.  Here's one.
>
> Dip and Dive for Five (my name)
> Formation is a small circle of 4 couples numbered 1-5.  There's sort of a
> home place but this is not critical.
> I learned this from Fred Park and if my memory is correct it comes form
> the border area between West Virginia and Ky.
>
> Couple 1 swings in the center of the set, others form a square around
> couple 1.
>
> Couple 1 faces up or down, heads dip and dive- takes 16 beats
>
> Couple 1 faces a side couple, dip and dive....
>
> 8 dancers join hands and go forward and back.  Go forward and back again
> and bring couple 1 back where they belong.
>
> Break
> Allemande left grand right and left.  With partner, turn back (5th hand is
> with partner and is a left allemande).  Swing partner at "home".
>
> I usually call break, figure, break, figure etc.....
>
> Tom
>
>
>
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