| Dance Name | Author | Variants/comments | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Family Dance (4:30-5:30) with Martha Wild and community band | |||
| 1 | Wind Up the Ball of Yarn | A1 | Big circle |
| 2 | The Etiquette Dance | A2 | Snowball scatter mixer |
| 3 | Black Cat Mixer | Martha Wild | Circle mixer |
| 4 | Blobs With Stars | Longways | |
| 5 | Heel and Toe Polka | Circle mixer | |
| 6 | Rip and Snort | 5-6 couple squares | |
| 7 | Rural Felicity | Longways | |
| Evening contra (6:30-9:00) with Flashing Sirens | |||
| 1 | Family Contra | Sherry Nevins | |
| 2 | La Bastringue | Traditional | Circle mixer |
| 3 | Ellen's Green Jig variant | Roy Dommett/Graham Hempel | A1/A2 from Broken Sixpence |
| 4 | Kentucky Mixer | Traditional | 3-couple scatter mixer |
| 5 | Monterey Detour | Bob Dalsemer | |
| 6 | La Plongeuse | Traditional | Longways set |
| Break | |||
| 7 | Circle of Friends | Steve Zakon-Anderson | Circle mixer Do-si-do, balance and swing corner No roll back in B2. |
| 8 | Salmonella Evening | Steve Zakon-Anderson and Louie Cromartie | |
| 9 | Ohio River Contra | Jerry Helt | B2Long lines, ones swing |
| 10 | Handsome Young Maids | Sue Rosen | |
The inaugural dance for a quarterly series starting up in Julian, CA -- a small tourist town in the San Diego mountains.
The family dance was about an hour long, with Martha Wild leading the community band. It was mostly a tour group of about 30 college students -- very energetic and enthusiastic.
The evening dance was an hour later. It was about 20 people. A half dozen had danced before. The rest were couples that stuck together. Contras where it mattered where the swing ended proved to be very challenging throughout the night. I never bothered with ladies chain.
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