People sometimes ask how we came up with the name Cats Cradle Robbers.
When I was a kid, we used to play this game with string that you may be familiar with. Cats cradle involves forming a figure with a loop of string between your two hands. Your partner then takes the string in a specific way and forms a new figure through the act of taking the string. This is a creative back and forth cooperative process; a game of digital capoeira if you will. Really good players can make up new figures as they go.
The Robber in Cats Cradle is the person who takes the string away and turns it into something new and surprising. I don't know if this is a common term, or just something we made up - I haven't been able to find any reference to it online. I like to think DJSE and I play a sort of Cats Cradle game with music as we pass it back and forth, taking turns being the Robber and adding something new and surprising with each pass. So, we're the Cats Cradle Robbers.
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-Snake
