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These are included in the email that gets sent a day or two before the class. You should consider using them, starting Week 3 or so. If you do so, make sure that the calls referenced have been taught. Otherwise, you'll need to edit them so they match, or write your own.
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Grand Square - uses week 1 material
Grand Square has a well-defined algorithm: After every three steps, you turn 90 degrees (such that you never turn out of the square) and after 16 beats everyone reverses. So, what happens if you leave the basic definition in place, but change the starting conditions? Typically, the Sides start facing their partner and the Heads start as couples at home. What happens in each of these 4 scenarios?
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Careful, there is one call on the list that is a bit tricky as the answer is dependent on the starting formation. Consider both a right handed wave and facing lines.
How many dancers? - uses week 4
Some calls require all 8 dancers (e.g. Right and Left Grand), others are danced in smaller groups of people. For example, Right and Left Thru is danced by 4 people -- 2 couples facing each other. The other dancers in the square could be dancing the same call or something else altogether. It can be helpful to know how may people you are working with during a call. What size group do you work with to do each of the following:
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- Walk and Dodge from left-hand parallel waves?
- Load the Boat from facing lines?
- Dixie Style to a Wave from facing lines?
- Heads Dixie Style to a Wave from a squared set?
- Flip the Diamond from normal right-hand diamonds?
- Half Tag the Line from back-to-back lines?
- Spin Chain the Gears from left-hand parallel waves?
- Recycle from right-hand waves?
- Recycle from a right-hand tidal wave?
- Crossfire from right hand two-faced lines?
- Fan the Top from a right-hand tidal wave?
- Spin the Top from parallel left-hand waves?
Opposites - uses week 9
Imagine doing a Circle Left. The person directly across from
you is called your Opposite. It is the person who is the same
head/side-ness as you and dancing the same gender as you.
Because 99% of what callers call is symmetric, your Opposite
should always be across the center of the square from you and is
always the same person thoughout a tip.
Just as it can be helpful to note your Partner and Corner when
you square up, it can be helpful to notice your Opposite. After
you've done a hard call or scrambled to get caught up, it can be
helpful to check that your Opposite is still across the square
from you. =)
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