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.