Competitive change partners. This is a wild dance for a knees-up in a big squarish room. A Year in the Life of a Penguin By Thos Green. Start by numbering the couples, and warn them to remember their numbers because they'll be in a different order next time. It doesn't matter where couples find themselves in the circle as long as they know when it's their turn.
Penguins have four seasons in their year, as follows.
As they go they do penguin courting, whatever they think that might be - any suitable struts or gestures. Meanwhile the two couples on each side do a four hand reel as fast as they can. Then reform the ring and 2s become the active couple, wherever they happen to be in the ring. I wrote this for an 18th birthday party given by Josie Wexler of Cambridge. It's an exceedingly squashy, huddled-up dance during the B section.