[Callers] Fewer than 6 dancers - Ideas?

[James Saxe via Callers]

On Oct 4, 2016, at 3:18 PM, Yoyo Zhou via Callers <callers at lists.sharedweight.net> wrote:

> - Do 4-person dances and let the 5th person cut in wherever they please.

The notion of cutting in can also apply to other situations
where you have a fixed-size set or sets and an extra person
(or more than one, but not enough for another whole set).

At the risk of stating the obvious, this works best when
everyone involved understands what's going on and is
willing to play and not to get their nose out of joint
if they get separated from original partners for the
duration of the dance.   It's not so good if a cut-out
person stumps off to the sidelines and sits there moping
instead of cutting back in on someone else.

--Jim