On 8/30/2012 12:04 PM, David Millstone wrote:
There are a gazillion circle mixers. Here's one from a Danish choreographer that
will work if the circle can fit nicely onto the floor and if your dancers are
familiar with box the gnat / swat the flea:
Disturbed by Insects (Inga Morton)
mixer
Formation: circle of couples, all facing counterclockwise
A1 Promenade (with inside hands joined)
California twirl
Promenade back
California twirl (then join both hands)
A2 Ladies, push your partner to the center
Gents, push your partner back
Ladies, push your partner to the center
Ladies, go back
B1 With your partner box the gnat
With your opposite to the left swat the flea
With your opposite to the right box the gnat
With your opposite to the left swat the flea
B2 With your opposite to the right balance and swing
Note: After each of the movements in B1, move a little away from the other
person.
This works really nicely with rag time music, incidentally.
And I've used it to bring box the gnat and swat the flea to mind when I
wanted to use them later.
-- Alan
You can find lots more on the syllabi from the Ralph Page Dance Legacy Weekend:
http://www.library.unh.edu/special/index.php/ralph-page-dance-legacy-weekend
Download the Master Index-- it's a spreadsheet in Excel format-- and then go to
the particular year for instructions to the dances you want. You'll find some
under scatter prom, circ mixer, Sicilian mixer, and then there's always one of
several versions of Ninepin, a square with an extra person in the middle.
You can find one version of Ninepin here:
http://squaredancehistory.vidcaster.com/FmJ4d/the-ninepin/
In this version, when the call "all the Ninepins to the center" comes, the
Ninepin
is joined by all the others of the same sex as the Ninepin.
David Millstone
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