I agree, Joyce! it's a novelty dance, and I wouldn't call it more than once in a three year period at this point, and not for a hall full of experienced dancers.
The original idea was Kathy Anderson's Carmen's Hat, and then I wrote Carmen's Contra.
Lisa
Thanks for mentioning this, Mavis.... As a somewhat bony person, I did this dance at Folklife a few years back. The lines are very long there and the dances sometimes go on for quite a while. By halfway through the dance my hip was KILLING me and I was begging my neighbors to stop bumping me. I gotta say, it's not one of my favorite dances.
