作者分享了在朋友聚会上组织小型舞会的经历。虽然场地不大，参与者也并非专业的舞者，但通过选择适合所有年龄段的舞蹈，包括儿童，营造了热情洋溢的氛围。作者兼顾演奏和领舞，虽然有所挑战，但最终获得了积极的效果。舞会包括长队舞、华尔兹和混合舞等多种形式，其中混合舞最受欢迎。作者也反思了华尔兹教学的局限性，以及如何在未来改进。

🎉作者在朋友举办的聚会上，用借来的小提琴为舞会伴奏并领舞，场地虽小，但气氛热烈。

💃舞会参与者包括成人和3-5岁的儿童，作者特意选择了适合所有年龄段的舞蹈，孩子们的兴奋极具感染力。

🎶舞会舞蹈形式多样，包括长队舞（如《The Low-backed Car》、《Bridge of Athelone》、《Jacob's Potato》、《Galopede》）、华尔兹和混合舞（Sasha），圆圈舞（La Bastringue）。

🎈混合舞Sasha最受欢迎，长队舞和圆圈舞次之，华尔兹相对没那么受欢迎，因为即兴领舞需要更多时间练习。

🎻作者兼顾演奏和领舞，虽然有挑战，但朋友鼓励他放松享受，最终舞会非常成功，作者也乐于促成这样的活动。

Published on May 31, 2025 3:20 PM GMT

Julia and I are in CA for LessOnline this weekend, and we'restaying with friends. It happened that they were hosting a party, andwhile this is not a group of dancing friends they asked if I'd be upfor leading some dancing. One of my hosts let me borrow their violin(which I'll also have with me today at LessOnline if anyone would liketo jam some), and the space was small enough not to need anyamplification.

Playing and calling at the same time is only something I can do if Iplay simple tunes I know very well while calling simple dances, andboth my playing and calling suffer from the multitasking. But my hostsencouraged me not to worry about this and thought we'd have a goodtime. I think they were right!

We ended up having about seven couples, mostly adults, but alsoincluding about three kids 3y-5y who were very excited to dance. Imade sure to choose dances that would work for the whole group, and itwas definitely the right call to include the kids: their excitementwas highly infectious.

Our hosts had moved furniture earlier in the day, clearing an openarea about 15 ft square. This ended up being slightly tight for afew figures, but was mostly pretty good.

The crowd was enthusiastic about dancing, and while not everyonedanced we easily had enough people to make the dances work. We endedup doing (I didn't write this down at the time; this is approximatelyright):

Longways: The Low-backed CarLongways: Bridge ofAthelone

Break for cake

WaltzLongways: Jacob's PotatoScatter mixer: Sasha

Another break, pretty long

Circle: La BastringueWaltz (Julia singing Waltzing WithBears while I fiddled chords)Longways: Galopede

I think Sasha was the most popular, followed by the set dancing(Longways and Circle), followed by waltzes. It makes sense that thewaltzes were less popular: Julia and I taught the basic folk waltzstep, but getting into the improvisational lead-follow dynamic and thekinds of figures you might want to lead would have needed much moretime and have worse ROI. I'm not sure if I would include these ifdoing this again, though it was nice to have a few slower-paceddances.

I'm glad I was able to help make this happen!

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