<<Resent to everyone>>

Hi Luke,

              Here is one:

https://squaredancehistory.org/exhibits/show/dare-to-be-square-weekend-2011/item/730

              Here is my notation:

Silly Threesome (by Kenneth & Sibyl Clark)

Trios (LML) plus spare men

A1:        Promenade (16) – Spare Men in the Middle

A2:        On the Right: Arm Right Twice; On the Left: Arm Left Twice

B1:         Promenade (16)

B2:         Ladies make a Tunnel; All Men go through Tunnel until the music stops – Form new Trios

Alt A2s: Hey, Basket, Right Hand High Left Hand Low, etc.

Larry Edelman (the one in the video):

A1:        Promenade (16) – Spares in the Middle

A2:        On the Right: Allemande Right; On the Left: Allemande Left

              On the Right: Dosido

B1:         Ladies make a Tunnel; All REVERSE and go through Tunnel until the music stops – Form new Trios

B2:         Basket Swing – open to a line with someone new in the middle

            Happy dancing,

                   John                      

John Sweeney, Dancer, England   john@modernjive.com 01233 625 362 & 07802 940 574

http://www.contrafusion.co.uk for Dancing in Kent

From: Luke Donforth via Contra Callers <contracallers@lists.sharedweight.net>
Sent: 09 February 2023 22:33
To: Caller's discussion list <callers@sharedweight.net>
Subject: [Callers] Mousetrap?

Hello all, 

I've been asked back to a family dance I did at a camp last summer. When I was there last year, one of the kids said "are we going to do Mousetrap?!", a dance they remembered from a previous year with the prior caller.

I've tried to find it, but am having no luck. The previous caller said:
Oh, it's been years...  Its a singing game, but I can't resurrect the words/melody at the moment - don't have it written down or recorded. Kind of like Ninepin square dance, where the band needs to stop playing on cue.  Everyone's in a circle single file walking under arches - 2 to start, then doubled each time, those who are caught (i.e. the 'mousetrap') when the music stops make the arches, and the music resumes, until there's more arches than people on the line.  

But that's all they've got. Anyone know this one, possibly under another name?

Thanks!

Luke