Hi Will,
A favorite triplet of mine is Melanie's Triplet by Melanie Axel-Lute.
It's on her website:
http://www.maxellute.net/triplet.html
A simple dance for three couples starting in a circle goes:
A1 Circle left, circle right
A2 Right hands across star, left hand across star
B1 Couple with lowest hands, lady ducks under to swing partner, then
middle-hands couple, then top, so all are swinging partners
B2 Promenade around the ring
If there are just two couples, many simple contras can be done by
just treating your partner as your next neighbor (and so the axis of
the dance will rotate 90 degrees each time).
In addition to couple dances to break things up, some simple ceilidh
or whole set dances might work; and if you have exactly nine dancers,
how about the fun square Nine Pin?
Good luck!
Richard
On Oct 14, 2008, at 9:56 AM, Will Loving wrote:
As a new caller, I’m looking for advise and/or suggestions for
events with a
very small number of dancers, 3-6 couples. At a dance I called in
August
(granted a slow month) we had at most five couples and that was if
I and a
couple of people who came to play music danced. I threw away my
carefully
planned program and wound up doing a number of triplets (thank you
David
Smukler) and a four-on-four that I modified so that it stayed
together as a
set and resulted in a change of partners each time through. It was
a little
clunky but it mostly worked and gave us some variety.
I am of course trying to avoid the scenario of people spending half
the
dance as neutrals when there only four couples in a set, and I’m
not really
ready to take on learning some squares in the next few days which
would be
the obvious choice. I am hopeful that there will be more people
this time,
but in case I’m in the same situation again, I’m studying more
triplets, a
couple of dbl-progression dances for 4+ couple sets (so that no one
waits
out at the end for long) and looking for other ideas.
Levi Jackson Rag is a possibility, but I’d still like to have some
other
options in my pocket. It did occur to me to suggest an extra
couples dance
or two just to break things up if we’re doing lots of short dances
with 3-5
couples.
Thanks,
Will Loving
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