Is barndancing easy?
It’s as easy as you want it to be. We always work on the assumption that, unless we’re told otherwise, our audience is completely new to barn dancing. The caller explains each dance in detail, going through each step in turn until everyone knows what they’re doing. As the evening progresses you’ll be introduced to more and more different moves- the do si do, the right hand star, balance and swing, the arch,the ballroom hold and so on, so that it may become possible to do gradually more complicated dances. The caller will judge how difficult to make it , based on how the guests manage with each dance. Sometimes, particularly with a Scottish group, many of the dancers will be quite experienced and can easily master quite advanced things like the Eightsome Reel.
