[Callers] Circle Mixers for newbies

Hi callers, I've been finding circle mixers extremely valuable for dances with newer dancers. They provide a way both to expose them to many different experienced dancers as well as to make them comfortable with the idea of dancing with different people all night. (We've all seen The Couple That Shows Up And Dances Just With Each Other that doesn't come back because they don't really meet anyone ...) I was looking for some alternatives to La Bastringue that I can do early in the evening, like 2nd or 3rd dance. Other mixers I've seen include doing things like Do-Si-Do or Allemande one person and coming back to another; I've found for new dancers that can often be confusing. ("Find another partner-less person in the middle of the circle" is only amusing so many times.) Also, I called this at MIT on Tuesday evening and it worked pretty well with a high percentage of new dancers. It's a variation on La Bastringue which I'm tentatively calling "La String Bean". If you've seen this or something really similar before, let me know so I can start calling it by its proper name. A1: Ladies to the center and back (4,4) Gents to the center, turnaround and back (4,4) A2: Current P Alle L 1.5x (8) New P DSD (8, forgiving) B1: Same New P B+S (4,12) B2: Promenade the ring CCW, Gents turn in Ladies so all face in (14,2) Optional: Make the promenade 8 beats and end the B2 with a courtesy turn once and a little more. One major point of this dance is to stealthily teach the Courtesy Turn from the Promenade, something I stole from a new-dancer-lesson from, if I recall correctly, Peter Stix. Critique / suggestions welcome. (Thanks to Mr. Bob Isaacs for initial suggestions earlier this week.) In dance, Ron Blechner contradances.tumblr.com