[Organizers] follow up to family dance questions :)

[Chrissy Fowler]

In Belfast, these are done every month:
- Circle dance variation of La Bastringue

- Galopede or version thereof


These are dances that have been requested at some point (dances that were done at some point and then were requested another month)

- Zip it Up (from New England Dancing Masters collections)

- The Flat Tire (from NEDM collections)

- Sasha

- Sashay the Donut (NEDM collections)

- Dive for Oyster, Dig for Clam (done in scattered foursomes, not with wring the dishrag figure at community dances given wide variation in height)

- Chaos

- Virginia Reel with strip the willow

- Bridges

- Kings and Queens (NEDM collections)

- Coyote Contra (dance composed by local youth, in "coyotum circle formation"--a becket type Sicilian circle)

- The Black Joke


I think that local traditions can and should vary.


A weekly square dance I do in the summertime has more than one "must do" dance.


I also think it's easier to have local traditions when the callers are consistent from month to month.  Either one house caller (as in Belfast and Topsham) or a group of callers (as I understood is the case for Tapestry dances.)


Cheers,

Chrissy Fowler


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