Re: Bouncing square ideas

Another bounce -- or maybe a ricochet Here's a figure I've used with my "Wrinkle in time" dance in NJ. I think of it as the "Tilt-A-Whirl" dance, and I have a modern urban contra variation. A1 Heads (sides) fwd and back; h/s promenade halfway around the outside A2 H/S meet couple on the right (ie. cpl 1 and couple 4; couple 3 and couple 2) join hands and circle left B1 Turn your circles and go around them, ride the tilt a whirl (two circles of four continue circling left while going around the other group of four moving counterclockwise) B2 Keep that circle turning then head back home and swing with your own I call this using the "My Little Girl" music by Von Tilzer (Take Me Out to the Ballgame composer) I'll write out the lyrics some time -- I'm sort of improvising it now -- cross between patter and singing square. With contra dancers, it's (in the B1) circle and swing your corner -- then the tilt-a whirl (bouquet waltz; pokey eight) and end up home swinging with . . . "my little girl". That actually smooths out the "go home and swing partner" with gents leading ladies nicely back to home. Just sharing. Ridge -- Ridge Kennedy [Exit 145] When you stumble, make it part of the dance. - Anonymous And we should consider every day lost on which we have not danced at least once. And we should call every truth false which was not accompanied by at least one laugh. - Friedrich Nietzsche