Hmmm.    Maybe some dance weekend should hold a workshop on variants of the
Wizard Walk dance.,
The musicians will get much practice on this challenging tune.
I've been trying to master the tune on my soprano recorder for the
past year or so
On Mon, Oct 27, 2025 at 4:06 PM Diane Silver via Contra Callers <
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  I love the dip-and-dive teaching strategy. Totally
borrowing that!
 I have sometimes adapted Wizards Walk to make it a Mad-Robin-esque figure,
 facing your partner across the set, to eliminate the challenge of walking
 backwards on the reverse:
 1s step forward (close to P) & slide sideways down the middle while 2s
 slide up the outside.
 1s step back (kinda like back into long lines) while 2s step forward and
 everyone slide the SAME direction, past future Ns (1s slide down the
 outside, 2s slide up the middle)
 Reverse:
 2s step back into long lines while 1s step forward (close to P). 1s slide
 back UP the middle while 2s slide DOWN the outside.
 1s step back into long lines while 2s step forward. 1s slide UP the
 outside, 2s slide DOWN the middle).
 It has the same oscillation; you're just sliding sideways instead of
 facing up or down and walking forward for the first 2 passes and backward
 for the reverse passes.  There's less crashing into others.
 On Sun, Oct 26, 2025 at 11:35 AM Steve Pike via Contra Callers <
 contracallers(a)lists.sharedweight.net> wrote:
  For those not familiar with a mirror hey for
three [per Jonathan S], but
 familiar with the square dance "Dip & Dive" figure, the W/Lizard Walk
piece
 can be taught as a "Dip and Dive past two" then same thing but in reverse.
 Then all that, but without hands, and upright!
 "Here's what your feet will do, we'll teach it with hands first, then
 without,  but make sure your feet learn this:
 Keep your partner's hand facing this way - up or down - the whole time.
 2s arch, 1s dive,  all forward to the next.
 1s arch, 2s dive, all forward then stop. Now back up:
 2s arch, 1s back under/2s back over,
 1s arch, 2s back under.
 "Let go of your partner, let your feet do the same thing but without
 arches and dipping and diving:
 1s split the 2s, all forward.
 2s split the next, 1s on the outside..
 Back up, 1s inside split the 2s,
 then 2s inside split the next 1s."
 Or something like that. Credit to Carol Ormand.
 Steve Pike
 Milwaukee, WI
 That's your feet pattern: do the same thing without your partner's hand.
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