Or you could do the same thing four times. Swing the one you're with (original opposite) and square the set - ladies have moved one place to the right and men one place to the left. He then taught a break which I would have done at the “Beginners” session at Cecil Sharp House without a walkthrough and they would all have got right. Are they lacking confidence in the dancers or in themselves? I've heard David Wright say “Colin says don't walk the break through… so I'll talk it through”. I've danced my own squares called by people who have obviously read the books and say “Colin says don't walk the breaks through… but I'm going to anyway”. And one thing I say in both my books is Don't walk the break through. This may also persuade callers not to use the same break all three times, though I sometimes use the same one at the beginning and end with something different for the middle break. One good approach is to use a set of three related breaks, as I've done in “Texas Star”, possibly giving more complicated variations on the same basic move. You can also find some more breaks, dances and advice on the Session 8 page of my Training Sessions, and the following blue buttons are links to these.īreak: Easy Break: Harder Break: All Eight Chain Break: Triple Allemande Break: Cross and Swing Break: Unphrased I've put lots of breaks into my books Squares with a Difference Volume 1 and Volume 2, but I still seem to have a few left. My convention with squares is that words in bold are those which change in later turns of the dance, such as Heads, Sides, First, across.Ĭlick the photos on the right to hear Lisa Greenleaf enthusing about calling American Squares and to see a great video about traditional square dancing.Ī Break is something you put at the beginning of a square, then after the heads have led the figure twice (when people will usually be with their opposite) and then at the end (when they should certainly be back with their partner). All A-Flutter All Four Ladies Teacup Chain All Four Men Beermug Chain Alternating Teacup Chain Arkansas Traveller Basic 1: English figures Basic 1A: English figures Basic 2: Bend the line, Pass … Basic 2: Bend the line, Pass through Basic 3: Square/Star/Dive t… Basic 3: Square/Star/Dive through Basic 3A: Eight Chain Basic 4: Revision Basic 5: Swing through Basic 6: Wheel around, Flutt… Basic 6: Wheel around, Flutter Wheel Basic 7: Wheel and Deal fro… Basic 7: Wheel and Deal from a two-faced line, Double pass through Basic 7A: Wheel & Deal fro… Basic 7A: Wheel & Deal from a line Basic 7B: Wheel and Deal (b… Basic 7B: Wheel and Deal (both formations) Beermug Chain Belle Brandon Set La Boulanger Bouquet Waltz Break: All Eight Chain Break: Cross and Swing Break: Easy Break: Harder Break: Triple Allemande Break: Unphrased Clare Plain Set Clutha Count-down Cuirassiers Set Double Teacup Chain Double-Dealing Fiddle-Faddle The Five-Star Square George Washington's Favou… George Washington's Favourite Grand Tea Mug Chain Happy Hoedown Hunsdon House Hyde Park Island Chain L'Entrée du Bal A Little Bit More Milagro Square Mount Gabriel Reel Northern Quadrille On the Trail of the Loneso… On the Trail of the Lonesome Pine Oswestry Square Paine's Fourth Set The Plain Quadrille Polka Quadrille Push and Shove Recognition! Redwing Right and Left Six Rolling Away Round Reel of Eight La Russe Scottish Set The Slender Chain Sociable Set Tea for Two Teacup Chain Triple Zero Waltz Cotillion Yorkshire Square Eight
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