Trip to Santa Fe – Circle Mixer – Don Veino 20170622

Type: Circle Mixer
Status: Proven

During a trip to New Mexico for other reasons I arranged to be booked for the Santa Fe FolkMADS Contra Dance. Shortly before the event I was informed that a group of 20+ international students who’d never done contra were planning on attending (turned out to be ~60% of the attendees at the start). In planning my program I realized the existing mixers in my deck were either too risky for those folks or too simple for the regulars. I wanted something that would build on the sequence of moves introduced in my teaching plan (which factored in language challenge) so I came up with the following. It worked out well with that group.

A1
Into the Center and Back
Circle Left

A2
Circle Right
Partner Dosido (and turn away from P)
[so Gents look CW, Ladies CCW]

B1
Neighbor Balance and Swing

B2
(new) Partner Promenade

First called by me at the FolkMADS Contra Dance in Santa Fe, NM on 6/24/2017. They created a nice flyer for the event (featuring our respective state birds!), which I’ve included below. Hope to get back together with them sometime!

Santa Fe Contra 6/24/17 Flyer

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