Re: [Callers] Dances for 3-6 couples

As a new caller, I’m looking for advise and/or suggestions for events with a very small number of dancers, 3-6 couples. At a dance I called in August (granted a slow month) we had at most five couples and that was if I and a couple of people who came to play music danced. I threw away my carefully planned program and wound up doing a number of triplets (thank you David Smukler) and a four-on-four that I modified so that it stayed together as a set and resulted in a change of partners each time through. It was a little clunky but it mostly worked and gave us some variety. I am of course trying to avoid the scenario of people spending half the dance as neutrals when there only four couples in a set, and I’m not really ready to take on learning some squares in the next few days which would be the obvious choice. I am hopeful that there will be more people this time, but in case I’m in the same situation again, I’m studying more triplets, a couple of dbl-progression dances for 4+ couple sets (so that no one waits out at the end for long) and looking for other ideas. Levi Jackson Rag is a possibility, but I’d still like to have some other options in my pocket. It did occur to me to suggest an extra couples dance or two just to break things up if we’re doing lots of short dances with 3-5 couples. Thanks, Will Loving _______________________________________________ Callers mailing list Callers(a)sharedweight.net http://www.sharedweight.net/mailman/listinfo/callers