Hi Folks!
I'm wondering if you have tricks to teach Box the Gnat and Swat the Flea to
a whole room of dancers who have not done it before. (In this case, it's
happening in an otherwise very simple scatter mixer but I can imagine
almost no one will know the figure.)
The wording I've figured out is below.
I feel like it's wordy but it's also a hard move to pick up because it's
kind of weird what's actually happening. :)
Ideally, I'd love to be able to teach this without a demo but I feel like
I'm stuck with the demo. (If you have talk BtheG to a big room of
non-dancers without a demo, I'd love to hear your strategies).
Anyway - open to any and all feedback.
Thanks!
Emily in Ottawa
DEMO BoxTGnat from a hands 4
With your P - join R hands in loose handshake hold – no thumbs!
Goal is to trad places with your P so you end up in the spot there are
right now.
BUT Lark/Robin will be doing different things to get there!
But little tug to start & raise joined hands.
Larks: you walk past your P into your P place. (could feel like
behind/outside of the circle)
Robins: you WALK under your joined hands, turning in to face ctr of circle
& keep turning until face P . You have stepped into THEIR place. Have
them drill StF and BtG over and over before starting the rest of the dance.
