<html><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=us-ascii"></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; line-break: after-white-space;" class=""><div class=""><br class=""></div>Amy,<div class="">Were you able to try this one out? How did it go?<div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">Jim<br class=""><div><br class=""><blockquote type="cite" class=""><div class="">On Feb 22, 2018, at 2:22 PM, Amy Cann via Callers <<a href="mailto:callers@lists.sharedweight.net" class="">callers@lists.sharedweight.net</a>> wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><div class=""><div dir="ltr" class=""><span class="gmail-im"><div class="">Hey all! This dance just popped into my head as part of a discussion over on the pourparler/family dance community. <br class=""><br class="">I have NO idea if I've just reinvented someone else's wheel or not. Anyone know?<br class=""><br class=""><span class="gmail-im"></span><br class=""><span class="gmail-im"></span></div></span><span class="gmail-im"></span><span class="gmail-im"></span><span class="gmail-m_3925179645178597760gmail-im"><div class="">Working Title: <b class="">"I've Got a Bad Feeling About This" </b><a target="_blank" href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7U3Oti2L8S4" class="">https://www.youtube.com/watch?<wbr class="">v=7U3Oti2L8S4</a><br class=""></div></span>Suggested Tune: <b class="">Cantina Theme</b> <a target="_blank" href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g6PDcBhODqo" class="">https://www.youtube.com/watch?<wbr class="">v=g6PDcBhODqo </a><br class=""><br class="">Eight or more couples, "Big Square" formation<br class=""><br class="">Prep: form up like you're going to do a big circle, then "square the circle": divide dancers into
four equal sets of partners, lined up along four NSEW walls. <br class="">Wave at people
across the room, figure out who your opposite pair is. <br class="">Sides and Top
walls can be slightly different numbers of partners as long as they
match each *other*.<span class="gmail-m_3925179645178597760gmail-im"><br class=""><br class=""><b class="">Side walls advance, right hand allemande</b> with opposite, retire<br class=""></span><span class="gmail-m_3925179645178597760gmail-im"><div class=""><b class="">Top walls sashay </b>to opposite side (if gendered: "Drive in the right lane, men passing back to back")<br class=""></div><div class=""><b class="">Side walls advance, left hand allemande</b>, retire<br class=""></div><div class=""><b class="">Top walls sashay</b> home<br class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">Everyone <b class="">dosido</b> partner, <br class=""><b class="">do-SA-do</b> partner, <br class=""></div><div class=""><b class="">promenade</b> to next WALL. <br class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">Do the dance four times with calls, four times "on your own"<br class=""><br class=""></div>Possible
prep practice: Tops advance, meet/identify your opposite, retire. Sides
in, identify, retire. All promenade to next wall. <br class=""><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">Depending
on size of hall, number of couples, and experience level/sobriety of
dancers, this could either be cleanly/tightly phrased or a total
pig-pile, sorta like Foula Reel. <br class=""><br class="">I'm going to totally try this at our
(small, square-shaped, local, fun-loving and open-minded) Peirce's Hall
this weekend, if Steve Howland will share the mic for a moment, but before I do:<br class=""><br class="">Does this already exist, and I've just forgotten?<br class=""></div><div class="">Or anything similar? <br class=""></div><div class="">Does it work in real life, with the right crowd/band/hall?<br class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">Kinda excited to find out...<br class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">Cheers,<br class=""></div><div class="">Amy<br class=""></div></span></div>
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