You can't beat First Night Quadrille by Bob Dalsemer A1 Heads go forward and back Heads circle left. A2 Heads circle right. Heads star right. B1 Allemande left corner, grand right and left. B2 Swing partner and promenade. Repeat for the sides, the women and the men. Of course if they are experienced contra dancers, you shouldn't need to walk it through for the sides, women and men. Part of the fun of this dance is being surprised. On Jan 17, 2010, at 12:00 PM, callers-request(a)sharedweight.net wrote: > Send Callers mailing list submissions to > callers(a)sharedweight.net > > To subscribe or unsubscribe via the World Wide Web, visit > http://www.sharedweight.net/mailman/listinfo/callers > or, via email, send a message with subject or body 'help' to > callers-request(a)sharedweight.net > > You can reach the person managing the list at > callers-owner(a)sharedweight.net > > When replying, please edit your Subject line so it is more specific > than "Re: Contents of Callers digest..." > > > Today's Topics: > > 1. squares for house parties of mostly contra dancers? (Jeff > Kaufman) > 2. Re: squares for house parties of mostly contra dancers? > (Alan Winston - SSRL Central Computing) > 3. Re: squares for house parties of mostly contra dancers? > (Jeff Kaufman) > 4. Re: squares for house parties of mostly contra dancers? > (Jack Mitchell) > 5. Re: squares for house parties of mostly contra dancers? > (Richard Allen Fischer) > 6. Re: squares for house parties of mostly contra dancers? > (Richard Allen Fischer) > > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > > Message: 1 > Date: Sat, 16 Jan 2010 21:15:07 -0500 > From: Jeff Kaufman <jeff(a)alum.swarthmore.edu> > To: Shared Weight <callers(a)sharedweight.net> > Subject: [Callers] squares for house parties of mostly contra dancers? > Message-ID: <20100117021507.GA29640(a)melfpelt.swarpa.net> > Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" > > I'm looking for some squares to learn to do at house parties. The > dancers would probably be contra dancers who haven't done many > squares, but squares work a lot better in kitchens. Easy stuff that > wouldn't need to be walked would be best. Looking online (probably > not in the right places) I'm mostly finding pretty complicated squares > or ones with lots of easy-for-square-dancer stuff like "separate, go > around two". Any suggestions? > > Jeff >