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<div class="moz-cite-prefix">On 5/15/2019 5:51 AM, Charles Abell via Callers wrote:<br>
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I'm sure there is already a thread on this somewhere, but I'm wondering what are your favorite dances for those in the 4-10 year old range. Specifically, dances that are not mixers since many younger dancers prefer to stay with a particular partner the whole
time. I have a number of good ones already (Alabama Gal, Haste to the Wedding, La Bastringue, etc), but I'd like to expand my existing collection of dances geared towards "little ones".</div>
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<p>I don't know how this would with exclusively 4 year olds (really, all I know how to do with exclusively 4-year-olds is a variation on wind-up-the-ball-of-twine where you bring the snake around into a cricle, do into the center and back, circle left and right,
and then break the snake off again, repeat until you feel like you're done), but I'd think 8 year olds could handle this fine, and it's just fine if you have talls and smalls mixed up.</p>
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<p>UP THE SIDES AND DOWN THE MIDDLE</p>
<p>(I have it from community dances manual, which says it's from the village of Symondsbury)</p>
<p>4 or 5 couple longways (you can maybe do 6 but you'll end up less phrased)</p>
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<p>Lines facing, do step-swing balance r-l, r-l.</p>
<p>Drop hands, cross right shoulder with partner and face back in.</p>
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<p>Repeat all that to home.</p>
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<p>Top couple raise an arch and walk slowly down the middle WHILE</p>
<p>second couple, with the the rest of their line following, cast off briskly down the outside and go under the arch to the top.</p>
<p>Original tops finish at bottom, original seconds at top.</p>
<p>Whenever you get to thtat spot, swing partner until the end of B2.</p>
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<p>(This was collected with a very specific tune that changes meter for the lead down. When I have a band I tell them "bouncy reels, jigs, or polka" but when I have to do this with recorded music I like "Sandy Boys" (or, specifically, a "Sandy Boys"/"Kitchen
Girl" medley by Pig's Eye Landing.)</p>
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<p>-- Alan<br>
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