Swing Your Partner!

Swing Your Partner!

You can swing your partner at two of SUUSI's most popular workshops, Contra Dancing on Monday and Tuesday. Contra dancing is one place where you can dance with a large number of people, where the motions you go through remind one of an amusement park ride, and where you can be a part of a mathematical structure; in particular, a non-Abelian group (see my article Mattresses, Contra Dancing, and Quilts). In the first night we learned how to swing partners, do-si-do, allemande, and ladies chain, and how to put these together to produce a contra dance. I went to both of these workshops, and also to Ceili Dancing on Wednesday; I found this to be similar to contra dancing but faster and with a jig step included.

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