Do Si Do

Usage

jargon

has aliases: see saw
formal parameters: who, shoulder, circling, beats

examples

Dance Figure
Badlands Contra
ladles do si do 1½ on right diagonal to face new neighbor
24th of June variation
neighbors do si do once
3 Places Left
partners do si do once
3, 33-33
ladles do si do 1½ ⁋
504 Wood Street
next neighbors do si do once
88888
partners do si do once
A Gentle Turn
neighbors do si do once
A Last Hurrah
neighbors do si do once
A Last Hurrah variation
neighbors do si do once
A Pirate’s Life for Me
ladles do si do 1½
A Proper Whoosh
next neighbors do si do once (same roles) [5] ⁋
A Ravitzingly Rosy Recombination
shadows do si do once
A Summer Night in Seattle
neighbors do si do 1½ look for new neighbors
A Walk in the Park variation
gentlespoons do si do once
AADS Reel
neighbors do si do 1½
Aberdeen Angus
gentlespoons do si do 1½
Acceleration
neighbors do si do 1½ and look for new neighbors in line of...
Accretion Reel (patter & variation)
partners do si do once - "say hello with a do si do"
After the Solstice (AC version)
neighbors do si do once
Airpants
neighbors do si do 1½ ⁋
All Hands On Deck (inverted)
gentlespoons do si do 1½
Amination Contra
neighbors do si do once couple 3 to come back to couple 2
Anderson Ferry Reel
partners do si do once
Angels' Rib 0.1 TESTING
partners do si do once
Anne's Visit
partners do si do once
Anniversary Dance
ladles do si do once
gentlespoons do si do once
Another Easy One
partners do si do once
Another Jig Will Do
neighbors do si do once
Another Last Dance
neighbors do si do once
Another Nice Combination
shadows do si do once
Another Nice Combination variation
shadows do si do once
Another Nice Combination variation
shadows do si do once
Another Nice Slice
shadows do si do once
Appetizer
neighbors do si do 1½ ⁋
Apples and Caramel
next neighbors do si do 1¼ to short waves
Arizona Becket
partners do si do once
Attleboro Reel
neighbors do si do once
Autumn Joy
gentlespoons do si do 1½ go to Partner
ladles do si do 1½ same ladles
Autumn Leaves
next neighbors do si do once
Autumn Leaves variation
next neighbors do si do once
Awesome Double Progression Dance, Surdyk do-si-do variation
____ do si do once new neighbor
Back of the Envelope
neighbors do si do once
Barber Teeny's Trampoline
partners do si do once
Basic Becket
partners do si do once
neighbors do si do once
neighbors do si do once
Be Here Now
next neighbors do si do 1¼ to a wave
Bee Buzz
neighbors do si do once new ⁋
Ben's Brilliance
neighbors do si do once
Better Than the Alternative
partners do si do once on the diagonal
partners do si do once on the diagonal ⁋
Between Buffalo and Nowhere
next neighbors do si do once
Between the Lines
neighbors do si do once
Binary Stars
neighbors do si do 1¼ to short waves
Black Bird in The Night
ladles do si do 1½
Black River Falls
neighbors do si do once
Blackberry Trace
partners do si do once
Blackbird Pie
gentlespoons do si do once, step back into line
Bowl of Cherries
neighbors do si do once
Breakup Breakdown
neighbors do si do once (previous N)
Broken Sixpence
neighbors do si do once
gentlespoons do si do once
ladles do si do once
Broken Sixpence v. with Chains
neighbors do si do once
ladles do si do once
gentlespoons do si do once
Broken Sixpence v. with Circle and Star
neighbors do si do once
gentlespoons do si do once
ladles do si do once
Brown Bag Reel
neighbors do si do 1¼ Ladles are standing left shoulder to left...
Brown Bag Reel
neighbors do si do 1¼ - ladles are standing left shoulder to left...
Bubbly Beginnings
ladles do si do 1½ to next neighbors ⁋
But Y, Tho?
partners do si do once
Butterflies
next neighbors do si do once
Butterfly Wings Improper
ladles do si do once back to neighbor
Butterfly Wings Improper variation
ladles do si do once back to neighbor
Butterfly Wings Improper variation variation
ladles do si do once back to neighbor
Cape Mixer
neighbors do si do once - gentlespoons ID ladle to the right of...
Celebration
partners do si do once
Cheat Lake Twirl
next neighbors do si do once
Cherokee Shuffle
neighbors do si do once
Chicago Shuffle
neighbors do si do once as couples
neighbors do si do once
Chicken Soup
neighbors do si do once
Chinese Pickles 0.1
neighbors do si do once
Cincinnati Reel
partners do si do once
Cinque Terrea
ladles do si do once on right diagonal or allmande instead of do si do
Climate Change's Reel
ladles do si do once to
Closing Break
partners do si do once
Coming Home
partners do si do once dance starts with this couple
Coming Home from Toohollie
neighbors do si do once
Complicity Swing
next neighbors do si do 1¼ to right hand Ocean Wave, gentlespoons...
Complimentary Contra
neighbors do si do 1¼
Compost Pile Breakdown
shadows do si do once (the one you swung)
Consider Hydrogen
partners do si do once
Contra Pride
gentlespoons do si do 1½ while ladles slide right one place to meet...
Contra Beauty
neighbors do si do once
Cotton Candy
ladles do si do once while gentlespoons go straight across set
Courageous Soul
ladles do si do once
gentlespoons do si do once
Cranky Ingenuity
neighbors do si do once as couples
neighbors do si do once
Crossroads Contra
ladles do si do once - end in a line of 4 down the hall
Cutler Coast
next neighbors do si do 1¼
DEVIL'S FANTASY
ladles do si do 1½
Dance All Night
partners do si do once
Dancing Bears variation
neighbors do si do once
Dar Trek
neighbors do si do once
Dar Trek (alt. presentation)
next neighbors do si do once
Dead Simple
partners do si do once
Devils Fun
ladles do si do 1½ On right Diagonal and go to partner
Diagamania
partners do si do once
Dick Witt's Circle Mixer
partners do si do once
Do What the 2's Say
neighbors do si do once
Do-Si-Three
neighbors do si do once "ends do-si-do your opposite"
neighbors do si do once "middles do-si-do your opposite"
Do-si-dolphin
neighbors do si do ¾ as couples +
Does Eat Oats
gentlespoons do si do once (in center)
neighbors do si do 1½ to next neighbors ⁋
Don't Have to Walk but You Can Dance
neighbors do si do once
Down by the Riverside triplet
partners do si do once
Dynamic Appeal
neighbors do si do once
Earl & Squirrel
neighbors do si do 1¼ to
East Litchfield Volunteers
neighbors do si do once
Echoing Allemandes
neighbors do si do once
Eeyore's Excuse
next neighbors do si do once
Eleanor’s Reel
neighbors do si do once
Enjoy
ladles do si do 1½ on Left diagonal to new neighbor
Enjoy
ladles do si do 1½ on Left diagonal to new neighbor
Essential
neighbors do si do once
Falling in Love Again
2nd shadows do si do 1½ ⁋
Family Contra
neighbors do si do once
partners do si do once (across the set)
neighbors do si do 1½ as couples (holding partner's hand) ⁋
Festival Jig
ones do si do 1½
Festival Reel
ladles do si do once
gentlespoons do si do once
Fiddle Hill Jig
neighbors do si do once
partners do si do once
Fire in the Creek variation
neighbors do si do once
Fire in the Tunnel
neighbors do si do once
First Night Quadrille
partners do si do once
First dance
ladles do si do once
First dance variation
ladles do si do once
First dance variation
ladles do si do once
First dance variation
ladles do si do once
First of November
partners do si do 1¼
Floating the Platte
next neighbors do si do once (progress here)
Footloose Contra
gentlespoons do si do 1½
For All, There Exists, Such That
neighbors do si do 1¼
Frederick Contra
gentlespoons do si do once
Galena
neighbors do si do once to
Galopede
partners do si do once
Generation Gap
ladles do si do once
Get Me Going
ladles do si do 1½
Giant Robot Dance
neighbors do si do once
Glint
partners do si do once
Godspeed You! Blue Megabus
gentlespoons do si do ½ to trade places
ladles do si do ½ to trade places
Good Friday
neighbors do si do 1½ to a wave with next neighbors ⁋
Grease & Glue
ones do si do once
twos do si do once
neighbors do si do 1½ as couples ⁋
Green Lake Twirl
partners do si do 1¼ into short waves
Gyroscope
neighbors do si do once
Half Grand Square
partners do si do once
Ham Wiggle Makes Me Giggle
next neighbors do si do once ⁋
Haste to the Wedding
partners do si do once
neighbors do si do once
Hazelnut Contra
partners do si do 1½ to face across and new neighbors
Hearing Our Voices Shine (Happy Birthday Heidi, from Jeremy)
partners do si do once (option: have one line raise arches over the...
Here There and Yonder
neighbors do si do once corner do si do, face partner with right hand
Hey Man
gentlespoons do si do once
Holiday in the Wood
neighbors do si do once couple around couple
Home Cooking
ladles do si do 1½ ⁋
Hope You Like It
neighbors do si do once
Hot Buttered Rolls
partners do si do once
House Party
neighbors do si do once
Howl at the Moon
gentlespoons do si do 1½
Huckleberry Friend
ladles do si do 1½
I Drove to Portland for Tacos
neighbors do si do once
I Like to Walk, I Love to Dance
neighbors do si do once
Ice Cream in the Sink
partners do si do 1¼ - end as standard couple, facing right
If It Fits, I Sits
neighbors do si do 1¼
Indifferential Equations
ladles do si do once
Inflation Reel
neighbors do si do once
Intro Lesson NOT A DANCE
neighbors do si do once
Irritable Inventiveness
neighbors do si do once
It Started on Facebook
partners do si do once (end in long wavy lines, gentlespoons facing...
It's All Backwards 0.1
neighbors do si do once
Java
neighbors do si do once
gentlespoons do si do once (Men)
ladles do si do once
Java variation
neighbors do si do once
gentlespoons do si do once (Men)
ladles do si do once
Jennifer's Whirlpool
neighbors do si do once ⁋
Jersey Twirl
ladles do si do 1½
gentlespoons do si do 1½ on left diagonal
partners do si do once
Jingle jangle Jingle
ladles do si do 1½
Jubilation Permutation
next neighbors do si do once
Just Another Whim
neighbors do si do once
Kat in Halifax's Second Scatter Dance
partners do si do once
neighbors do si do once
____ do si do once as couples
Kimmswick Diamonds
neighbors do si do 1¾ "Once and a half a a little bit more, put the...
Kimmswick Express
neighbors do si do 1¼ to a wave of 4 (2 ladles in the middle by the...
Kiss the Bride
neighbors do si do once
La String Bean
next neighbors do si do once (now your partner)
La String Bean (courtesy turn variation)
next neighbors do si do once (New-partners) ⁋
Lady Mondegreen
partners do si do once
Lakeside Room Stomp
partners do si do once
Lark in The Afternoon
partners do si do once
Lava Pit
partners do si do once
Leap Daze
partners do si do once
Leave the Wine
3rd neighbors do si do once
Leave the Wine variation
3rd neighbors do si do once
Life Crossings
ladles do si do once, end in a line of four with the ladles in the...
Like I've Known You Forever
neighbors do si do once
Luna in the Library
shadows do si do once
Luna in the Library var.
shadows do si do once
Mad Orbin
next neighbors do si do once
Mad Robin in Love
neighbors do si do once
Mad Scatter
neighbors do si do once
Mad Slice variation
next neighbors do si do once
Maple & Cedar Swing
neighbors do si do once gentlespoons same neighbor, ladles new...
Maximum Fun, Minimum Variation
next neighbors do si do once
May Day Mixer
partners do si do once
Mended Sixpence
neighbors do si do once
gentlespoons do si do once
ladles do si do once
Microchasm
partners do si do once
Mid Night Dancer
ladles do si do 1½
Middle Break
partners do si do once
partners do si do once
Midwest Folklore
neighbors do si do once
partners do si do once
Midwest Folklore
neighbors do si do once
partners do si do once
Monday Night in Ballard
gentlespoons do si do once
Moon & Stars Contra
neighbors do si do once (dance starts with this couple)
Moon Dance / Sun Dance
neighbors do si do once
Moose Tracks
partners do si do ¾, as couples
partners do si do once
Natural Fllow
partners do si do once AS A Couple gentlespoon lead cw
Never Enough
gentlespoons do si do once back to partner
New Dance
neighbors do si do once
New Dance { Call it What You Want }
shadows do si do 1½ to face partner
New Dance Cyclone
ladles do si do once as they finish do si do ladles go in back of...
New Dance Dance Friends
partners do si do once AS Couple gentlespoons lead partner cw ...
New Dance Gleeful Glance
ladles do si do once Gentlespoons Orbit half to meet partner across...
New Dance { Dancing On The Ceiling )
partners do si do once AS a couple once around getting ready to zig
New Dance Dancing Lights
neighbors do si do once new neighbor
New Dance (The Best Of Zest)
partners do si do once tion AS A Couple
New Dance Locking Hearts
neighbors do si do once and turn to face partner
New Dance Reunited
neighbors do si do 1½ and go to new neighbors ⁋
New Dance A Moment In Time
gentlespoons do si do once to long wave , left hand to partner...
New Dance Buffing The Floor
next neighbors do si do once
New Dance Don's Reel
neighbors do si do once
New Dance Oozing Fun
partners do si do once as a couple gentlespoons lead out cw , all...
New Dance Me And My Two Shadow
partners do si do once on side of set to face each other ( couples...
New Dance October Joy
partners do si do once
New Dance Spellbound
partners do si do once as couple once around to face neighbors
New dance (Orion Reel)
neighbors do si do once
Nice & Easy Contra
neighbors do si do once
Night Sail
neighbors do si do 1¼
Night dancer
ladles do si do 1½
Night of the Living Hey
partners do si do once
Nightingale
ladles do si do 1½
No Title WIP
ladles do si do once
Northalstead Jig (Riverside Jig variation)
neighbors do si do once
Not My Second Rodeo
next neighbors do si do once
November Night
gentlespoons do si do once
Old & New Friends
partners do si do 1½ AS a couple, gentlespoons lead partner CW to...
On the Road
partners do si do once (As A Couple ) ready tp Zig
One Shy of Twenty
next neighbors do si do 1½ to face 3rd neighbor
gentlespoons do si do once while ladles exchange places by turning...
One in the Hand (slight variation)
ladles do si do once
Opening Break
partners do si do once
Orono Special
ones do si do once
neighbors do si do once
Paloma's Becket
neighbors do si do once
Pecan Pie
neighbors do si do once
Pedal Pushers
ladles do si do once
Penicillin
neighbors do si do once
Pensacola Rollaway
partners do si do once
Pete's Dark Roast
ladles do si do 1½
Phoebe's Becket
next neighbors do si do once
Pinball Wizard
next neighbors do si do 1¼ to wave of 4
Pivot the Line
ones do si do once across the set
Plain Vanilla
ladles do si do 1½
Promenade Lemonade 0.1
partners do si do once
Proper Swingfest II
neighbors do si do 1½
Push Me Pull You Two
neighbors do si do once
Push the Button
ladles do si do once
Queer Contra Zig-Zag
partners do si do once
Quesadilla on the Half Shell
next neighbors do si do once
Ransom Note (adaptation)
partners do si do once
Raven Joy
neighbors do si do once or more to wave of four
Razzle Dazzle
neighbors do si do once
Redhouse
neighbors do si do once
Redhouse Zoom Variation
partners do si do once and face down the hall
Reel Easy
neighbors do si do once
Reel Time
next neighbors do si do once
Reel to Reel
neighbors do si do 1¼
Richfield Stomp
neighbors do si do once (facing neighbor)
Rising Of The Sun
neighbors do si do once
Rising Of The Sun variation
neighbors do si do once
Riverside Jig
neighbors do si do once
partners do si do once
Road to Boston
partners do si do once
Rod's Grits
ladles do si do 1½
Rod's Grits
ladles do si do 1½
Roll 12.5
neighbors do si do once
Roll Away Beginner Variation
partners do si do once
Roses on the Road
partners do si do once
Royal Wedding
next neighbors do si do once - return to 1st neighbors
Rural Felicity
partners do si do once
Rural Felicity
partners do si do once
Salute to Larry Jennings
neighbors do si do once
Salute to Larry Jennings (Larry Jennings variation)
neighbors do si do once - end with right hand to 1st neighbors
Salute to Larry Jennings (original)
neighbors do si do once - end with right hand to neighbors
Sarah's Journey
partners do si do once
Saturday Night Line
neighbors do si do 1½ and dance forward to ⁋
Sawdust Liquor
ladles do si do 1½
Scooter
partners do si do once
Scottish Reel
partners do si do once
Serving REELness
next neighbors do si do once
Shades of Impropriety (variation)
neighbors do si do once MIRROR, ones split twos
neighbors do si do once MIRROR, twos split ones
Shadrack's Delight
neighbors do si do 1¼ to
Shadrack's Friday
neighbors do si do 1¼
Shoot the Moon
gentlespoons do si do 1½
Simplicity Swing
next neighbors do si do once
Slapping The Wood
neighbors do si do once (do si do as a couple with partner around...
Sliding Into St Louis
ladles do si do once
Small Potatoes
ladles do si do once
next neighbors do si do once ⁋
Snapping the wood variation
neighbors do si do once
Snapping the wood variation
neighbors do si do once
Snapping the wood variation
neighbors do si do once
Solution
partners do si do once
Sonic Reel
ladles do si do once
gentlespoons do si do once
Soul Mate
neighbors do si do once
South Union Reel
neighbors do si do once
Spend Some Time Together
partners do si do once
Spider Jive
neighbors do si do once
Spiral Arms
partners do si do 1¼
Splashing IN The Waves
neighbors do si do once
gentlespoons do si do once to long wave in the center ⁋
Spoot the Dog
neighbors do si do once
Spring Break (variation)
neighbors do si do once and form a ring
Starburst
next neighbors do si do once ⁋
Start Your Engines
shadows do si do once turn away from shadow to find your partner
next neighbors do si do once
Start Your Zoom
shadows do si do once; turn away to find your partner
Stick in the Bug
neighbors do si do once
Strollin' Outta Barstow
neighbors do si do once
Sun Dance and Moon Dance
neighbors do si do once
Surfing the Set
ladles do si do 1½ to face out in long wavy line
Symmetrical Force
ones do si do once
Take Me Home
neighbors do si do 1½
Ted's Triplet #7
partners do si do once
Ted's Triplet #7
partners do si do once
Tempus Fugit
neighbors do si do once (the #2 couple across the set)
Thanks, Charlie
neighbors do si do 1¼ to a wave of 4
The Baby Rose
partners do si do once
The Baby Rose
partners do si do once
The Baby Yoda
partners do si do once
The Caller's Wife
neighbors do si do once
The Country of Marriage
neighbors do si do once to
The Dance of Deception
shadows do si do once
The Fabulous Couple
shadows do si do once - turn around!
The Future Soon
neighbors do si do once
The Levi Jackson Rag
partners do si do once
The Merry-Go-Round (Das Ringelspiel)
neighbors do si do once
partners do si do once
The Queen Bee
next neighbors do si do once
The Queen Bee (folk processed version)
next neighbors do si do once
The Reminder
gentlespoons do si do 1½ OR balance and pull by
The Rendezvous
ladles do si do 1½ or swing to partner
The Sturgeon General
next neighbors do si do once
The Sturgeon General variation
next neighbors do si do once
The Tosa Slide
next neighbors do si do once ⁋
partners do si do once
The Traffic on Chestnut is Terrible
ladles do si do 1½
The Triangle Inequality
neighbors do si do once and threes face up
The Tropical Gentleman
ladles do si do 1½ - give right hand to partners
The Turning Point
neighbors do si do once
The Wedding Ring Circle Mixer
partners do si do once
The Wild Woman From North Carolina (original)
next neighbors do si do once
The Winter Storm
neighbors do si do 1¼ to
The Young Adult Rose var
neighbors do si do once
There Is No Way to Peace; Peace Is the Way
ladles do si do once in the center
These are the Hands
neighbors do si do 1½ As Couples, Do-si-Do around Neighbors 1 1/2,...
They Stayed Here When They Disappeared
neighbors do si do once
Thinking of Quinn
neighbors do si do once
Three Thirty-Three
ladles do si do 1½ and face 2nd neighbors ⁋
Through Traffic
next neighbors do si do once
Time of your Life
neighbors do si do once to wave of four
Tinkie Winkie
partners do si do once on gentlespoon's side of the set
neighbors do si do once on original side for all
To Call a Mockingjay
neighbors do si do once
Top of the Stairs
neighbors do si do once
Toulouse- Lautrec
ladles do si do 1½ to long ocean wave right hand to partner left to...
Train Delay
shadows do si do 1½
Trip to Belfast
ladles do si do 1½
Trip to Brown University
neighbors do si do once
Trip to Falmouth
neighbors do si do 1¼
Trip to Shorebird
neighbors do si do 1¼
Trip to Versailles
partners do si do once
Twirly Minds Think Alike
neighbors do si do 1½ ⁋
Uncle Fred's Contra
neighbors do si do once and a little bit more to
Unknown
same roles do si do once
Unknown Circle Right Left Grand
partners do si do once
first corners do si do once
Unnamed Easy Progression
neighbors do si do once
gentlespoons do si do once
ladles do si do once
Vallimont's Silver Hammer
shadows do si do once
Virginia Reel
partners do si do once
Walk Along John to Kansas
neighbors do si do once
Walk Along John to Kansas (shifted)
neighbors do si do once
Want guidance? Will Mentor
gentlespoons do si do once then finish with right hands linked,...
Waving Wheat
neighbors do si do 1½
Weave the Line
3rd neighbors do si do once
West By Midwest
next neighbors do si do once
What That Goes Together Well
ladles do si do 1½ on right diagonal
Wing Ding
ladles do si do once and come back to partner
Winter in Winterland
next neighbors do si do once and a 1/4
With Thanks to the Dean
neighbors do si do once
Woven Waves
next neighbors do si do once
Yellow Cat's Jig (Maggie Jo's Version)
partners do si do once
You Can't Get There From Here
neighbors do si do 1¾ ⁋
You Can't Get There From Here
neighbors do si do 1½ - step forward to next neighbors ⁋
Zoom Contra #2
partners do si do once as a couple
Zoom Contra #3
partners do si do once
Zoom Contra #4
shadows do si do once
Zoom Contra #7
shadows do si do once
Zoom Contra #9
partners do si do once
moving lines of three
gentlespoons do si do once
slapping wood variation
partners do si do once as a couple around neighbors
neighbors do si do once do si do neighbor in front of you

Dances without Do Si Do

Moves Sharing a Dance with Do Si Do

allemande

allemande orbit

arch & dive

balance

balance the ring

box circulate

box the gnat

butterfly whirl

California twirl

chain

circle

contra corners

cross trails

custom

dolphin hey

down the hall

facing star

figure 8

form a long wave

form an ocean wave

form long waves

gate

give & take

gyre

hey

long lines

mad robin

meltdown swing

pass by

pass through

petronella

poussette

promenade

pull by dancers

pull by direction

revolving door

right left through

roll away

Rory O'More

see saw

slice

slide along set

square through

star

star promenade

swat the flea

swing

turn alone

up the hall

zig zag

Moves Preceding Do Si Do

allemande

arch & dive

balance

balance the ring

box the gnat

butterfly whirl

California twirl

chain

circle

cross trails

custom

do si do

down the hall

figure 8

form an ocean wave

hey

long lines

meltdown swing

pass by

pass through

petronella

poussette

promenade

pull by dancers

pull by direction

right left through

roll away

see saw

slice

square through

star

swing

turn alone

up the hall

zig zag

Moves Following Do Si Do

allemande

balance

balance the ring

box circulate

box the gnat

chain

circle

contra corners

custom

do si do

dolphin hey

down the hall

form an ocean wave

form long waves

give & take

gyre

hey

long lines

mad robin

meltdown swing

pass by

petronella

poussette

promenade

pull by dancers

pull by direction

right left through

Rory O'More

slide along set

square through

star

swat the flea

swing

zig zag