Let's record which hack tips were done each graduation! Target = who was hacked (who danced that tip)
| Semester / Year | Target | Patter / Singer | Hack | Description and Comments |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Spring 2014 | Club | Patter | Undo (Memento) | Spin Chain & Exchange the Gears. Now UN-Spin Chain & Exchange the Gears. Very hard. |
| Spring 2014 | Club | Singer | Musical Squares | "Find a new square after each promenade". IMO, it was hilarious, but also involved lots of crashing into other couples, and you didn't stay with your original partner. |
| Spring 2014 | Class | Patter | Phantom Gemini (one handed) | Heads had right hands available, sides had left hands available. |
| Spring 2014 | Class | Singer | "Swap Chain 4" (Progressive square) | Requires even number of squares and special choreo. The girls moved into the next square on the modified Eight Chain 4 by walking across instead of being courtesy turned (do your part Swap Around). Boys did their part swap around (or run). Boys stayed in same square so we knew where to promenade to. At the end, everyone ended up at home with original partner. |
| Fall 2013 | Class | Patter | Cut in/out | Cut out a person currently in the square by handing them the LARGE stuffed animal. Then they go to another square (or to another dancer) and cut back in by handing off the animal to someone else. |
| Fall 2013 | Class | Singer | Progressive squares | On Trade By, move into the square ahead of you (if there is one) rather than turning back into your square. Special choreo was used so that everyone in square1 eventually ended up in square 2 spots, and vice versa. |
| Fall 2013 | Club | Patter | Sound effects | Made up new sound effects for existing calls, and caller said the sound effect rather than the name of the call (Eg "squeak" for hinge) |
| Fall 2013 | Club | Singer | Bag on head (eg Blindfold) | 1 person in each square started with a paper bag over their head (eg blindfold). Bag was passed along to next dancer on swing&promenade. I don't believe each dancer got bagged and one person had it for an extra time because of the mid-singer break. |
| ? | Both | Patter | Go | "Go" defined as list of 5 calls (swing through, boys run, wheel and deal, veer left, crossfire?) From what Genni and I remember, this was an idea proposed to Ted for the hack on the class. Ted did it as the all-club-now-tip immediately after graduation ceremony. |
| Spring 2013 | Class | Patter | Special call defined- I think it was like acey deucey but new centers partner tag | |
| Spring 2013 | Class | Singer | Accreting Mass | Start off with 1 person in flagpole center, gradually (or quickly) accumulate more people in the center. Others have to work around the chunk of people in the middle |
| Spring 2013 | Club | Patter | Twister | Red/Yellow/Blue color spots placed on floor, do the call and end touching the appropriate color (example Purple Swing Thru) |
| Spring 2013 | Club | Singer | No hands | Dancers could touch elbows but not hands |
| Fall 2012? | Club? | Patter | Lights out | Glow bracelets (Red/right, Blue/left) and the lights turned out. |
| Fall 2012 | Class | Patter | Parasitic Accreting Gemini | Add a gemini to an existing dancer. Sometimes they got more than 1 gemini each |
| Fall 2012 | Class | Singer | Floor is lava | Taped-off areas on the floor that you were not allowed to touch while doing the calls. |
| Spring 2012 | Class | Patter | Phantoms (Chair) | Replaced 1 dancer in each square with a wheeled office chair |
| Spring 2012 | Club | Singer? | Rope between dancers | Ribbon connecting your wrist to your opposite (eg Couple 1 Belle & Couple 3 Belle) |
| Fall 2011 | Club | Singer | Stuffed animals | Each dancer held a small stuffed animal. The stuffed animals got to do the dance actions instead of the dancers. |
| Spring 2011 ? | Club ? | Singer | Balloons | Each girl had a balloon on a ribbon, tied around their wrist. The strings get tangled as the singer progresses. |
| Spring 2011 | Class | Singer | Parasitic Gemini | 1 or more club members pick a dancer to gemini with (nonconsentually). Then switch to a new dancer a few calls later. |
| Spring 2011 | Class | Patter | Limbo | Two people (not dancing in the square) hold rope parallel to floor. Dancers have to duck or step over rope when moving around. |
| Spring 2010 | Class | not sure | Accreting Mass | |
| Spring 2010 | Class | not sure | Rope around square | Large piece of rope encircles all the dancers (as squared set). Dancers need to keep the rope from falling to the floor during the tip. |
| Spring 2010 | Club | Patter | Telephone | Ted spoke into his cell phone instead of using the mic. The dancers had to join the conference to hear the calls. |