Square Dance Class Notes

Do Paso (& Roll Promenade): Clasp your partner’s left forearm, rotating around 360 degrees, then clasp corner’s right forearm and rotate around 360 degrees, then the partner’s left again and girl dancer rolls out to promenade position. Without the Roll Promenade, this call ends with a Courtesy Turn to have couples facing center. (Thanks for the assist!)
Step to a Wave (two facing couples):
VV
^^
VV
^^
becomes
^V^V
^V^V
facing dancers put right hands up at shoulder level and step forward, clasping the right hand of the dancer in front of them.
Wheel Around: the specified couples in a promenade (heads or sides) wheel around to face the couple behind them, forming facing lines. This is often used when a caller has made a mistake in his/her calling that puts the promenading couple in the wrong order for going home.
Ocean Wave Balance: In a wave position: ^V^V, dancers lean first forward, then back, then return to standing upright.
Swing Thru:from a wave ^V^V, everyone drops left hands, and rotates around right hands 180 degrees, clasping the left hand of the person they approach, if possible. then right hands are dropped, and those clasping left hands rotate 180 degrees around, clasping right hands of those they approach. NOTE: a Left Swing Thru is the exact opposite: rotate around left hands first, then right. It will be called as “Left Swing Thru.”
Boys/Girls Run:Two Dancers adjacent to each other: BG for instance. If the call is Boys Run Around the Girls, then the boy in a pairing of adjacent dancers would move forward in a 180 degree semi-circle around the G dancer, while the G dancer would stepping without facing directions, over to the position vacated by the running dancer.

I’m too tired to finish tonight, so I’ll finish in the morning.

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