Les Bucherons

We were priveleged to have Les Bucherons visit our school. They’re teaching the CSC grade fives and sixes square dance. We believe they are teaching the grade three and fours to line dance. Kindergartens, grade ones and grade twos are learning a circle dance. Les Bucherons teach French culture dances to elementary students and then help them perfect and perform it for people to see on an evening later in the week. One of the more complicated or interesting moves is called the grand chain. You grab your partner’s right hand first, then you swing past their right shoulder grabbing the next persons left hand and swinging by their left shoulder, and so on until you get back to your original spot (called “home”). Sides 1 and 3 are called “heads” and sides 2 and 4 are called “sides”. Another cool segment was when we did “stars” and “star promenades”. “Stars” are when either the heads or sides step in (4 people in total) and put their hands in the middle and circle (or “star”) in the opposite direction of the hand that’s in the middle. “Star promenade” is where the boys go in and do the star and then their partners elbow link-up with them and they “promenade” or walk once around until they are “home”.

By: R’n’A