[Callers] Contra Friendly Squares -- people left over.

[Keith Wood via Callers]

Here's a couple of 5-couple dances in Levi Jackson formation:

http://dancekaleidoscope.org.au/dance.html#Rubigold
http://dancekaleidoscope.org.au/dance.html#Sundowner

Click the Call Sheet button to see and print the instructions.

Cheers

Keith Wood

> Over the past several years, we have had several ‘extra’ dances here 
> in Tallahassee that are advertised to the contra dance listserv and 
> elsewhere as old-time or square dances, or old time square dances, 
> with live music.  We have had anywhere from 8 to 30 dancers come. One 
> of the things we heard from dancers was that they did not like being 
> left out — wanting to dance but not enough dancers for a full square. 
>   We decided on a policy of leaving no-one sitting who wants to dance. 
>   That means that we don’t decide what dance to call (at least not for 
> sure) until we see how many couples stand up to dance; and it means 
> that I have dances ready to go for 4, 5, 6 or 7 couples.  With 6 or 7 
> it can be a longways set, a contra, a circle mixer, or a big circle 
> square-dance.  With 8 or 12 it’s a 4-couple square.  Folks seem to 
> appreciate the concern for their enjoyment, and there are plenty of 
> good dances to choose from for any number of couples.  (Although I 
> could wish for more good five-couple dances, the vast repertory of 
> circle mixers comes in handy.) I have also used a couple of 6- or 
> 9-couple dances I learned from Phil Jamieson.
>
> Others have recently dealt with the situation where you have only 
> three or even two couples.
>
> Richard
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