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CONTENTS:
Fillers, Intros and Endings
All Gents Kneel and Do-Si
Balance All
Basket
Black Snake Twist
Butterfly Whirl (Helvetia)
Carolina Star
Fruit Basket
Fruit Basket (Helvetia)
Grapevine Twist
Helvetia Figures
King's and Queen's Highway (Promenade)
King's and Queen's Highway (Gents Go Left, Ladies Go Right)
King's and Queen's Highway Subset
Ladies in the Center Back to Back
Ladies in the Center Back to Back (Helvetia)
London Bridge
Miscellaneous
Open Tunnel
Raise the Window
Right and Left Grand
Rip and Snort
The River Bend
Shoo Fly
Swing Her In
Swing Old Adam, Swing Old Eve (Helvetia)
Swing the One Behind
Wagonwheel
Weave a Basket
Weave the Ring
SOME WAYS TO FORM UP A BIG CIRCLE
(See the little circle index for some ways to form little circles.)
Note: If there are too many couples to dance comfortably in a circle, the circle can assume an irregular shape, like a piece from a jigsaw puzzle, to more efficently use the available space.
- The band starts playing while dancers choose partners and begin to form a circle, moving left. When enough people are on the floor, at the caller's direction all drop hands and promenade single file ccw. Now partners swing, promenade and dance one or more of the big circle figures. [New Creek, The Introduction; Dalsemer]
- The music starts and the dancers form up a big circle moving cw until the caller announces a circle right. [Dunmore, The Introduction; Dalsemer]
- Before the music starts the dancers form a circle of couples. Beginning with an arbitrarily chosen couple, the caller gets the couples to count off, odd or even, all the way around the circle. Then the dance begins. This method is most often encountered in the books.
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WORKSHOP