<div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:georgia,serif;color:#073763">I'll second "Happy as a Cold Pig..." but you have to call it to the right crowd. You need people who won't get upset when "everything went wrong but I still found my partner." You'll see six people stars, three people stars, one person stars! but everyone will be smiling.</div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:georgia,serif;color:#073763"><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:georgia,serif;color:#073763">Dale </div></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Sat, Feb 3, 2018 at 9:45 AM, Jack Mitchell via Callers <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:callers@lists.sharedweight.net" target="_blank">callers@lists.sharedweight.net</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr">I really love “Happy as a Cold Pig in Warm Mud by Mike Borshig<br><br>Not obviously silly, but much more fun if the dancers allow themselves to be silly<br><br><br>A1 N B&S<br>A2 gents Alle L 1.5<br> P alle r 1.5 (end facing up / down, partners facing in opposite directions)<div>B1 Walk forward, make a Left Hand Star (in theory with N, Shadow and one other person) </div><div> LHS 1x </div><div> P Sw</div><div>B2 Circle L 3/4 <br> Ring Balance, CA Twirl</div><div><br></div><div>This dance is best when people don't take it too seriously. Secret is not to worry about whether you went the right way for the star -- turn a star all the way around and you'll get back to your partner. Also works if you and partner both go the same way (and make a 5 person star). Challenge dancers to make stars with more people. Come down off the stage and jump into the stars yourself. :-)</div><div><br></div><div>J</div><div><div class="h5"><div><br><div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr">On Thu, Feb 1, 2018 at 1:30 PM Robert Green via Callers <<a href="mailto:callers@lists.sharedweight.net" target="_blank">callers@lists.sharedweight.<wbr>net</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div dir="auto">Here is a photo of The Wheel from the original Dizzy Dances<br><br><div id="m_-1041383116774760968m_-1299955546716163798m_-8920344044094528522AppleMailSignature">Sent from my iPad</div></div><div dir="auto"><div><br>On Feb 1, 2018, at 9:27 AM, Bill Olson via Callers <<a href="mailto:callers@lists.sharedweight.net" target="_blank">callers@lists.sharedweight.<wbr>net</a>> wrote:<br><br></div><blockquote type="cite"><div>
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<p style="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px">Rick and Mac and all, I also tried various "fixes" like promenading clockwise but like a lot of times I have tried to "fix" a dance, it gets clunky and I end up going back to the original. Since the "Wheel" is
the most fun with a hall packed with dancers, I have settled on calling it only for large crowds when the original "circle up" has the dancers pretty much pushed up against the walls. Then when they get in promenade position, that all loosens up but during
the circle lefts the women's arms are saved. </p>
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<div id="m_-1041383116774760968m_-1299955546716163798m_-8920344044094528522divRplyFwdMsg" dir="ltr"><font color="#000000" face="Calibri, sans-serif" style="font-size:11pt"><b>From:</b> Callers <<a href="mailto:callers-bounces@lists.sharedweight.net" target="_blank">callers-bounces@lists.<wbr>sharedweight.net</a>> on behalf of Rick Mohr via Callers <<a href="mailto:callers@lists.sharedweight.net" target="_blank">callers@lists.sharedweight.<wbr>net</a>><br>
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<div dir="ltr">"The Wheel" has been a favorite of mine since 1994. Around here some call it "Wheel of Misfortune"
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-- hilarious! </span>(i.e. who will the fates deliver unto you for a swing?)
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<div>I could never find it in my Gene Hubert books -- apparently because it was published in his first collection "Dizzy Dances"<span style="color:rgb(34,34,34);text-transform:none;text-indent:0px;letter-spacing:normal;font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:small;font-style:normal;font-weight:400;word-spacing:0px;float:none;display:inline;white-space:normal;background-color:rgb(255,255,255)"><span> </span>(<a href="https://nam04.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.ibiblio.org%2Fcontradance%2Findex%2FDD1.txt&data=02%7C01%7C%7C697c6daa31f44b462fe008d569759a6a%7C84df9e7fe9f640afb435aaaaaaaaaaaa%7C1%7C0%7C636530876176927415&sdata=sHtXOykMuVYBbufQ70v4aoayq3Pe3RwFtzlHHkuqgEw%3D&reserved=0" target="_blank">https://www.ibiblio.<wbr>org/contradance/index/DD1.txt</a>)</span>
which I don't have. I never thought that was a problem, since "Dizzy Dances II" is subtitled "Featuring the best of Volume 1 plus...". But now I wonder how many other great dances that Gene didn't consider "the best"
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are hiding in that book</span>!</div>
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<div>I've also long struggled with the "women's arms pulled out of their sockets" problem, and tried a couple fixes<span style="color:rgb(34,34,34);text-transform:none;text-indent:0px;letter-spacing:normal;font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:small;font-style:normal;font-weight:400;word-spacing:0px;float:none;display:inline;white-space:normal;background-color:rgb(255,255,255)"><span> </span>that
failed spectacularly</span>. Mac, your solution looks brilliant and I'm excited to try it!</div>
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