<html><head></head><body><div style="color:#000; background-color:#fff; font-family:garamond, new york, times, serif;font-size:16px"><div id="yui_3_16_0_1_1445106843748_3033">Same dance, but the formation is already set up with a square of 4 and a 5th couple facing couple 1.</div><div id="yui_3_16_0_1_1445106843748_3135" dir="ltr">Do the Dip & Dive once or twice thru - until back to original positions.</div><div id="yui_3_16_0_1_1445106843748_3197" dir="ltr">Couples 1 & 5 circle half (or equiv) -- Outside 4 couples now circle 3/4.</div><div id="yui_3_16_0_1_1445106843748_3337" dir="ltr">Begin again.<br></div><div id="yui_3_16_0_1_1445106843748_3336" dir="ltr">Alternative: each couple can 1/2 promenade in and out of the center to progress one position.</div><div id="yui_3_16_0_1_1445106843748_3529" dir="ltr"><br></div><div id="yui_3_16_0_1_1445106843748_3496" dir="ltr">Maybe call it tonight up in Chesterfield, MA but those "Eastern" old timers like to keep it in squares</div><div id="yui_3_16_0_1_1445106843748_3562" dir="ltr">unless it's Oh Johnny, Climbing Up Them Golden Squares or Wearing of the Green.</div><div id="yui_3_16_0_1_1445106843748_3634" dir="ltr"><br></div><div id="yui_3_16_0_1_1445106843748_3633" dir="ltr">Bob Livingston</div><div id="yui_3_16_0_1_1445106843748_3632" dir="ltr">Middletown, CT<br></div><div id="yui_3_16_0_1_1445106843748_3354" dir="ltr"><br></div><div id="yui_3_16_0_1_1445106843748_2905"><span id="yui_3_16_0_1_1445106843748_3455"></span></div><br> <div id="yui_3_16_0_1_1445106843748_2908" style="font-family: garamond, new york, times, serif; font-size: 16px;"> <div id="yui_3_16_0_1_1445106843748_2907" style="font-family: HelveticaNeue, Helvetica Neue, Helvetica, Arial, Lucida Grande, sans-serif; font-size: 16px;"> <div id="yui_3_16_0_1_1445106843748_2906" dir="ltr"> <hr id="yui_3_16_0_1_1445106843748_2910" size="1"> <font id="yui_3_16_0_1_1445106843748_2909" face="Arial" size="2"> <b id="yui_3_16_0_1_1445106843748_3452"><span id="yui_3_16_0_1_1445106843748_3451" style="font-weight:bold;">From:</span></b> Rich Sbardella <richsbardella@gmail.com><br> <b id="yui_3_16_0_1_1445106843748_3688"><span id="yui_3_16_0_1_1445106843748_3687" style="font-weight: bold;">To:</span></b> Tom Hinds <twhinds@earthlink.net>; Robert Livingston <rlivngstn@yahoo.com> <br><b id="yui_3_16_0_1_1445106843748_3005"><span id="yui_3_16_0_1_1445106843748_3004" style="font-weight: bold;">Cc:</span></b> Laur <lcpgr@yahoo.com>; "callers@lists.sharedweight.net" <callers@lists.sharedweight.net> <br> <b id="yui_3_16_0_1_1445106843748_3335"><span id="yui_3_16_0_1_1445106843748_3334" style="font-weight: bold;">Sent:</span></b> Friday, October 16, 2015 6:13 PM<br> <b id="yui_3_16_0_1_1445106843748_2996"><span id="yui_3_16_0_1_1445106843748_2995" style="font-weight: bold;">Subject:</span></b> Re: [Callers] Dances For Short Line<br> </font> </div> <div id="yui_3_16_0_1_1445106843748_3006" class="y_msg_container"><br><div id="yiv4358349186"><div id="yui_3_16_0_1_1445106843748_3008"><div id="yui_3_16_0_1_1445106843748_3007" dir="ltr">Bob Livingston has another great Dip and Dive for a five couple square. Perhaps he will share it.<div id="yui_3_16_0_1_1445106843748_3015">Rich</div></div><div class="qtdSeparateBR"><br><br></div><div class="yiv4358349186yqt8643294976" id="yiv4358349186yqt69459"><div id="yui_3_16_0_1_1445106843748_3010" class="yiv4358349186gmail_extra"><br clear="none"><div id="yui_3_16_0_1_1445106843748_3012" class="yiv4358349186gmail_quote">On Fri, Oct 16, 2015 at 5:33 PM, Tom Hinds via Callers <span id="yui_3_16_0_1_1445106843748_3427" dir="ltr"><<a id="yui_3_16_0_1_1445106843748_3428" rel="nofollow" shape="rect" ymailto="mailto:callers@lists.sharedweight.net" target="_blank" href="mailto:callers@lists.sharedweight.net">callers@lists.sharedweight.net</a>></span> wrote:<br clear="none"><blockquote id="yui_3_16_0_1_1445106843748_3013" class="yiv4358349186gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex;">Laur,<br clear="none">
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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.<br clear="none">
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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.<br clear="none">
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And I include many dances that are in other formations and also take some time to teach and dance. Here's one.<br clear="none">
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Dip and Dive for Five (my name)<br clear="none">
Formation is a small circle of 4 couples numbered 1-5. There's sort of a home place but this is not critical.<br clear="none">
I learned this from Fred Park and if my memory is correct it comes form the border area between West Virginia and Ky.<br clear="none">
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Couple 1 swings in the center of the set, others form a square around couple 1.<br clear="none">
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Couple 1 faces up or down, heads dip and dive- takes 16 beats<br clear="none">
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Couple 1 faces a side couple, dip and dive....<br clear="none">
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8 dancers join hands and go forward and back. Go forward and back again and bring couple 1 back where they belong.<br clear="none">
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Allemande left grand right and left. With partner, turn back (5th hand is with partner and is a left allemande). Swing partner at "home".<br clear="none">
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I usually call break, figure, break, figure etc.....<br clear="none">
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