As part of the class graduation festivities, there are "hack tips", in which the class invites the club to dance a tip with some special encumbrance, and the club does the same for the class. Here are the ideas that have been used in the recent past, as a guide to future hack tips. In accordance with hazing policy, we always point out that these tips are voluntary, and will not affect one's graduation.
Target = who was hacked (who danced that tip)
Related: Big List Of Hack Tips
| Semester / Year | Target | Patter / Singer | Hack | Description and Comments |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Fall 16 | Class | Patter | Conference Call | Ted called into his phone; dancers dialed into the conference call to hear the calls. |
| Fall 16 | Class | Singer | Roped-in squares | rope around each square at waist height; dancers have to move to keep it from falling down |
| Fall 16 | Club | Patter | Tea Party | On the call <ANYONE> Tea Party, the designated dancer or dancers leave their square and go to the exact same spot in the next square around the room in promenade direction. It can be called from any formation and ends (sort of) in exactly the same formation. Of course, <ANYONE> Reverse Tea Party means the designated dancers should move one square in reverse promenade direction around the room. |
| Fall 16 | Club | Singer | Through the Looking Glass | Dance with your hands Through The Looking Glass. Cross your right over left, and whenever you would take hands with another dancer, use the hand on that side of your body. Of course, don't forget to uncross your hands for the thank you at the end of the square! |
| Spring 16 | Class | Patter | Balloons | Everyone got a latex balloon to hold between their knees while dancing |
| Spring 16 | Class | Singer | Balloons | Everyone got a Mylar (helium) balloon on a string, and had to try to keep the balloons untangled while dancing |
| Spring 16 | Club | Patter | Gender switch star thru | Everyone switches gender on each star thru - that is everyone star's thru normally, but they switch gender, so it always ends with half-sashayed couples. |
| Spring 16 | Club | Singer | Beach balls | They have to keep beach balls aloft in their square while dancing, and are encouraged to throw them into other squares. Note: this descended into chaos, but people seemed to have fun. |
| Fall 2015 | Class | Singer | Parasitic Accreting Gemini | (See Fall 2012) |
| Fall 2015 | Class | Patter | Floor is lava | (See Fall 2012) |
| Fall 2015 | Club | Singer | Conga Line | 16 dancers similar to tandem, but only the leader dances, while the trailer puts hands on the leader's shoulders and is just along for the ride. On the call 'conga zoom' the leader and trailer switch. |
| Fall 2015 | Club | Patter | Each right pull by or pass thru is replaced with a U-turn back, including within other calls. | |
| Spring 2015 | Club | Patter | Miniwave Gemini | People square up in sets of 16; each pair of people is a miniwave acting as one dancer; after each call the people in each miniwave trade so the person who is facing 'correctly' switches |
| Spring 2015 | Club | Singer | Quidditch | Each square had some brooms and balls; people held them and hand them off when they swing |
| Spring 2015 | Class | Patter | Mummy | For each sequence, two people can't use their arms. At each resolve, the people who can't use arms change |
| Spring 2015 | Class | Swinger | Swap Chain 4 | (same as Spring 2014) |
| Fall 2014 | Club | Patter | Concentric Squares | Squares of 16 people, one inside the other |
| Fall 2014 | Club | Singer | ||
| Fall 2014 | Class | Patter | rope around each square at waist height; dancers have to move to keep it from falling down | |
| Fall 2014 | Class | Singer | Paper bags over the heads of 2 people per square; switching who has them on swing | |
| 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. |
| 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 | Both | Patter | Go | "Go" defined as list of calls (Swing Thru, Spin the Top, Centers Run, Crossfire, Split Circulate, Face Right). This idea was proposed to Ted for the hack on the class; as Genni and I remember, Ted did it as the all-club-now-tip immediately after the graduation ceremony. Ted later used this as the Senior Preliminary Mystery Caller for the 66th Annual PNTSDF (Pacific Northwest Teen Square Dance Festival) in 2017: https://www.facebook.com/tedlizotte/posts/10209241793866715 |
| 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. |