Family Dance

user: Beadle

Table of Contents

  1. Patty Cake Polka by Chestnut

  2. Trip to Santa Fe - Don Veino
  3. Butter by Gene Hubert

  4. Basket Mixer - Diane Silver
  5. Easy Peasy by Diane Silver
  6. Unruly Reunion by Robert Cromartie
  7. Accretion Reel (variation, with patter) by Chris Page
  8. The Snowball (variation) by Martin Hodges
  9. Galopede by Chestnut

  10. La Bastringue - Seth Tepfer version
  11. Patty Cake Polka by Chestnut

  12. Dahlonega Warm up
  13. Festival Reel by Will Mentor
  14. Family Contra by Sherry Nevins
  15. Midwest Folklore by Orace Johnson


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Patty Cake Polka

by: Chestnut

introduces moves: custom, slide along set, allemande

formation: Circle Mixer

Circle Mixer: gentlespoons in center, ladles outside. Hold partner's hands.

A1 4
heel, toe, heel, toe
4
slide left along set, slide, slide
4
heel, toe, heel, toe
4
slide right along set, slide slide
A2 4
right hand: clap clap clap
4
left hand: clap clap clap
4
both hands: clap clap clap
4
own legs: clap clap clap
B1 8
partners allemande right once
8
move to your next partner ⁋

Trip to Santa Fe - Don Veino

Butter

by: Gene Hubert

introduces moves: circle, swing, long lines, chain, hey

formation: Becket

A1 2
slide left along set ⁋
6
circle left 3 places
8
neighbors swing
A2 8
long lines forward & back
8
ladles chain
B1 16
ladles start a full hey - rights in center, lefts on ends
B2 16
partners balance & swing

http://dancevideos.childgrove.org/contra/contra-modern/437-butter-by-gene-hubert-becket

Basket Mixer - Diane Silver

Easy Peasy

by: Diane Silver

introduces moves: balance the ring, California twirl

formation: improper

A1 16
neighbors balance & swing
A2 8
long lines forward & back
8
gentlespoons allemande left 1½
B1 16
partners balance & swing
B2 8
circle left 3 places
4
balance the ring
4
partners California twirl ⁋

Unruly Reunion

by: Robert Cromartie

introduces moves: down the hall, up the hall, do si do

formation: improper

begin in lines of four facing down the hall, ones in the center

A1 8
down the hall and turn alone
8
up the hall and bend into a ring
A2 8
circle left 4 places
8
circle right 4 places
B1 8
neighbors do si do once
8
neighbors swing
B2 8
long lines forward & back
8
ones swing and face down between next neighbors twos in line of four ⁋

https://www.ibiblio.org/contradance/thecallersbox/dance.php?id=508
https://web.archive.org/web/19990504052230/http://kooshball.kcomputing.com/contra/RCdances.html#Unruly%20Reunion
https://www-ssrl.slac.stanford.edu/~winston/mydances/contra/unruly_reunion.txt
https://barndancecaller.net/dancecards/Unruly%20Reunion.html

Accretion Reel (variation, with patter)

by: Chris Page

introduces moves: custom, turn alone, promenade

formation: scatter mixer

Begin in any number of rings of any number of dancers anywhere in the hall

A1 4
ring go forward - "into the middle, say goodbye"
4
turn alone - "turn alone, away you fly" ⁋
4
individual scatter promenade - "scatter 'round"
4
find a new partner - "catch someone's eye"
A2 8
partners do si do once - "say hello with a do si do"
8
partners swing - "swing this partner high and low"
B1 8
partners promenade scatter - "promenade now on the heel and toe"
8
join in rings of any number of couples
B2 8
circle left 4 places
8
circle right 4 places

Chet Gray's personal notes:

I will often include some number of further variations:

  • Begin and/or end in one big ring
  • Begin with the circle left (B2), end with partners promenade up to the top of the hall
  • Begin with the partners promenade (B1), end with the partners swing
    • Have everyone find their original partners for the final partners swing
  • Invite people to find more than one person for the do si do and swing, now a basket swing
    • "dos-a-two or dos-a-three, thou swing'st them and they'll swing thee"

More patter:

  • "two or four or six or eight, circle when you find them and don't be late"

The Snowball (variation)

by: Martin Hodges

introduces moves: star, custom

formation: longways set, 4-6 couples

A1 8
ones allemande right once
8
ones allemande left once
A2 8
star right 4 places, ones and twos
8
star left 4 places, ones and twos
B1 8
circle left 6 places, ones, twos, and 3s
8
circle right 6 places, ones, twos, and 3s
B2 8
long lines forward & back
8
long lines forward & back
8
4s and below sashay up the center and cast out above the ones
8
down the outsides and return to blace
8
ones sashay down the center to the bottom
8
partners swing ⁋

Galopede

by: Chestnut

introduces moves: pass through, custom

formation: improper or proper

A1 8
long lines forward & back
4
pass through across the set
4
turn alone
A2 8
long lines forward & back
4
pass through across the set
4
turn alone
B1 8
partners do si do once
8
partners swing
B2 16
top couple sashay to bottom of set - others move up ⁋

If you finish dancing before the music is done, let each couple in turn just sashay down until the music is ready to end.

La Bastringue - Seth Tepfer version

Patty Cake Polka

by: Chestnut

introduces moves: custom

formation: Circle Mixer

Circle Mixer: gentlespoons in center, ladles outside. Hold partner's hands.

A1 4
heel, toe, heel, toe
4
slide left along set, slide, slide
4
heel, toe, heel, toe
4
slide right along set, slide slide
A2 4
right hand: clap clap clap
4
left hand: clap clap clap
4
both hands: clap clap clap
4
own legs: clap clap clap
B1 8
partners allemande right once
8
move to your next partner ⁋

Dahlonega Warm up

Festival Reel

by: Will Mentor

introduces moves: custom

formation: Becket

A1 8
long lines forward & back
8
long lines slice left & back ⁋
A2 8
star left - hands across - 4 places
8
star right - hands across - 4 places
B1 8
ladles do si do once
8
gentlespoons do si do once
B2 16
partners balance & swing

Family Contra

by: Sherry Nevins

introduces moves: balance

formation: improper or proper

Begin joined hands four

A1 4
balance the ring
4
balance the ring
8
circle left 4 places
A2 4
balance the ring
4
balance the ring
8
circle right 4 places
B1 8
neighbors do si do once
8
partners do si do once (across the set)
B2 16
neighbors do si do 1½ as couples (holding partner's hand) ⁋

Midwest Folklore

by: Orace Johnson

formation: Becket

A1 2
slide left along set ⁋
8
circle left 3 places
8
neighbors do si do once
16
neighbors balance & swing
8
circle left 3 places
8
partners do si do once
16
partners balance & swing

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