I agree, Joyce!  it's a novelty dance, and I wouldn't call it more  
than once in a three year period at this point, and not for a hall  
full of experienced dancers.

The original idea was Kathy Anderson's Carmen's Hat, and then I wrote  
Carmen's Contra.

Lisa

> Thanks for mentioning this, Mavis.... As a somewhat bony person, I  
> did this dance at Folklife a few years back. The lines are very long  
> there and the dances sometimes go on for quite a while. By halfway  
> through the dance my hip was KILLING me and I was begging my  
> neighbors to stop bumping me. I gotta say, it's not one of my  
> favorite dances.