by: Traditional
formation: Two lines, no roles
Based on the Latvian folk dance “Savas acis izraudāj” as taught to me by Rick Mohr. Line up dancers in contra lines, however, there are no partners or roles in this dance. Put one person at the head of each major set, this person is the "wolf" and everyone else in line are the "pigs".
With no music playing, pigs walk forward and back singing "As it happ-ened all last year, So it goes ag-ain this year." At some point, the band begins to play frantically. Pigs make a tunnel down the lines and the Wolf runs down the tunnel, grabbing one person they want to dance with and pulling them into the tunnel. They go to the end and join the arch. The pigs scoot up to fill the gap. The person out runs (outside the tunnel) to the top and is the new wolf. Caller may add more wolves. At some point the caller signals the band to stop. The players go back to chanting and walking forward and back. Remind wolves not to neglect people at the top of the set, they don't always have to pull from the middle.
For musical notation of the song sung by the players as well as links to the dance being done see here: https://archive.org/details/pigs-and-wolves