[Callers] Contra Corners Dance

[Mary Keith Eustis]

I like "Down by the Riverside" too.  Usually suggest that the most
experienced dancer in each threesome start in the middle to demo and they
alternate, deciding who's next while in the basket swing.  Works great in a
mixed crowd or with beginners, lots of laughter and easily pick up on who's
your corner.

Keith


On Thu, Jul 11, 2019 at 12:56 PM jim saxe via Callers <
callers at lists.sharedweight.net> wrote:

> A nice easy dance for introducing Contra Corners is "Down by the
> Riverside" by Melanie Axel-Lute:
>
>      http://www.maxellute.net/down.html
>
> The dance is a progressive 3-face-3, ending with a basket swing in B2
> after which dancer open out with anyone in the middle, facing a new
> threesome.  Like Erik Hoffman's "Walpole Dollhouse",
>
>
> http://lists.sharedweight.net/pipermail/callers-sharedweight.net/2013-May/006143.html
>
> you can think of it as a much simplified version of Pat Shaw's "Walpole
> Cottage".
>
> On account of the progression, dancers get to lead the contra corners
> figure with a succession of different opposite active (center) dancers.
> Thus, dancers who don't quite understand the figure are likely eventually
> to run into counterparts who can send guide them in the correct direction.
> By contrast in a triplet, triple-minor, or duple-minor setting, a confused
> dancer may be asked to lead contra corners with the same equally-confused
> partner time after time.
>
> --Jim
>
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