On Mon, Mar 28, 2011 at 7:25 AM, Laur <lcpgr(a)yahoo.com> wrote: It's on a so-so free webhosting company that bounces its connections from time to time -- apologies about that. If it doesn't work, give it another shot 24 hoursish later. Cheers, -Chris Page San Diego

Chris' Accretion Reel looks like fun for a ONS with the controlled chaos of circles and baskets of random sizes. Here is a scatter mixer which leads to a similar situation. Star Crazy - scatter mixer but start with circles of 3 couples A1 (3 couples) Circle Left, Circle Right (keep moving same way for …) A2 Left hands across for Left hand star, right hands across for Right hand star B1 (starting with lowest hands), Gents pull ladies out of the star and swing B2 Scatter promenade (and look for 2 more couples) notes: B1: For ONS can do right arm or elbow swings. B2: The requirement for 3 couples is only 'recommended', let circles of any size form, and let the dancers sort out the fun when the circles have an even number of couples. Cheers, Bill PS - At a folk festival barn dance someone called a mixer that used the idea in B1. I made up this 32 bar version. Does anyone recognize it?

Hi Adam, The caller I mentioned runs a weekly contra dance in Dunedin (the right one :-)) Cheers, Bill