Social games and group dances; a collection of games and dances suitable for community and social use . nd take four slidestoward head of line, four slides toward foot of line,four skipping steps back to place. 8 meas. Music B. Head boy and girl lead off toward foot of passes outside of boys line, followed by all theother boys. Girl passes outside of girls line, fol-lowed by all the other girls. On reaching the footof line all join hands and skip back to places. Allcouples except the head couple now join both hands,and raise arms to form arches. Head couple skipsunder arches to the fo
Social games and group dances; a collection of games and dances suitable for community and social use . nd take four slidestoward head of line, four slides toward foot of line,four skipping steps back to place. 8 meas. Music B. Head boy and girl lead off toward foot of passes outside of boys line, followed by all theother boys. Girl passes outside of girls line, fol-lowed by all the other girls. On reaching the footof line all join hands and skip back to places. Allcouples except the head couple now join both hands,and raise arms to form arches. Head couple skipsunder arches to the foot of line. i6 meas. Music C. Dance is now repeated with second couple at thehead of line. Dance is completed when all couples haveregained their original places. GROUP DANCES 183 Note: Sometimes for variety and also to givedancers an opportunity to rest, as the dance is quitestrenuous, a quick walking step may be used for thislast figure in place of the skip step. When the walk-ing step is used, dancers should clap hands in timewith the music during the counter-march. 184 GROUP DANCESCOUNTRY DANCE. COUNTRY DANCE 185 Formation: Each set consists of eight dancers should be arranged in two lines of foureach, the lines facing each other. Girls should beon the right side of boys. In each group the linesshould be numbered i and 2 (Diagram A). Thegroups should be arranged around the room tO forma large circle. 1. O X O X X—Boy 2. X O X O O—Girl Music is divided into two parts, A and B. The dancers in Line i join hands and take fourskip steps forward and four skip steps back to the same time Line 2 joins hands and takes fourslides to the left and four slides back to place. 4 meas. Repeat the above, but Line i takes four slidesto the left and four slides back to place while Line 2skips forward four steps and back to place. 4 meas. Music A. II Couples join right hands across with couples theyare facing, forming a star (Fig. 33). All skiparound clockwise 8 counts
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