[Callers] Contra friendly squares

[John Sweeney via Callers]

Hi Ron,
       Here are some figures that might fit your needs.  But you also need
some breaks/choruses that contra dancers will find easy; you don’t have to
use ones shown with the figures.

Chippenham Square by Colin Hume
http://colinhume.com/insts.htm#ChippenhamSquare
Geezy Peezy by Larry Edelman
https://www.library.unh.edu/special/forms/rpdlw/syllabus2011.pdf
Banjos in Love by Erik Hoffman in Contradictions:
http://www.erikhoffman.com/dancescd.html
Deer Park Lancers https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LZ1D5IZt_dc
The Lucky One by Tom Hinds in Bad Hair Decade
Perceptual Motion by Tom Hinds
https://www.library.unh.edu/special/forms/rpdlw/syllabus2007.pdf
Camille’s Quadrille by Walter Lenk
https://www.cambridgefolk.org.uk/contra/dances/camilles_quadrille.html
Beaver Lake Jig by Ted Sanella
https://www.cambridgefolk.org.uk/contra/dances/ted_sannella/beaver_lake_jig.
html
  (if the men mess up the first move, then get the ladies to go to their
left hand man for the allemande right instead – the ladies are often much
better than the men!)

Western Quadrille (from Chip Hendrickson) – based on Powell’s First Sett No.
3 – 1848
A1: Men Star Left (Hands Across); Star Right, take Left with Partner to form
intersecting Waves
A2: Balance the Wave (L/R), Partner Allemande Left 1/2
     Balance the Wave (L/R), Partner Allemande Left 3/4
B1: All Four Ladies Chain Half Way x2 – finish by sending the Lady around
the outside on to the next Man and turning Left to pick up your Corner
B2: Corner Promenade to Man's Home
(Original was Ladies’ Stars, but that makes the end of A2 an Allemande Left
1 & 1/4 in four beats)

Or for a slightly more complex one on the same theme:
Parisian Star https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gzdwHF2EZ_k

	Hope that helps.  If you want any of the instructions please e-mail
me off-list.

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                   John			
			
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