Re: [Callers] Family dances for 3-9 people?

This has worked for me: 3 or 4 couples longways. Try to get talls and smalls mixed in each line but partners are across from each other. A1 1-4 Lines go forward and back. 5-8 Link arms in line and as a unit, pass left shoulder (bottom person in one line, top in the other) and wheel around to face in in the other line's place. A2 repeat to home B1 Top couple freestyle their way down the middle and back - tell em they can dance together any way they want - and peel off to the bottom B2: Everyone else steps up and swings their partner. There's enough flex in B2 to make up for any confusion in B1. I've done this for slightly-drunk Civil War reenactors and for mostly-11-year-olds. I designed it for three-face-three but it works with four face four. Feel free to change B1 to two-hand turn and cast off, or lace-the-boot to the bottom. You need to run it at least twice because people want another chance at the showoffy part. I don't have a title for this but I made it up (because I needed something right then) at a Firefly-themed birthday party a week after being inspired by Susan Michaels's brief family dance seminar at Queer Contra weekend, so I could call it "Firefly Jig", "Susan's Reel". I swiped the forward and back and march and wheel from a three-face-three Sicilian called "Three Meet" so there might be a name choice there. This one probably needs 11-year-old or older, and a band that can play "Sellenger's Round". $DISK9:[WINSTON.TEXT.DANCES.APW]SELLENGERS_WHEEL.TXT;2 SELLENGER'S WHEEL Alan Winston, 11/16/2003 cut-down version of Sellenger's Round for 3-7 people, no partners needed. Formation: circle of people facing in Tune in Barnes, 5x. I: A: Slipping circle (*really* slipping) left and back to the right. B: Chorus (same each time). Set forward right and left fall back straight still facing in, set right and left turn single Repeat II: A: Lead into the center and back Repeat B: As above III: A: right hand star (contra style wrist grip keeps you from having a mess) left hands back B: As above IV: A: Basket left and _keep going_, not back to the right. B: As above (Finish with slipping circle again, but if you're repeating don't do slipping circle twice in a row - it's lame). Hope this helps! -- Alan On 2/18/16 10:52 PM, Claire Takemori via Callers wrote: