Tech Squares: the square and round dance club of MIT

Tech Squares Class

Definitions for Week 13

DIXIE GRAND: Typical starting formation - beginning double pass thru.

  1. Dancers who are facing another dancer along their circulate path right pull by.
  2. Dancers who are facing another dancer along their circulate path left pull by, as all dancers adjust to a right and left grand circle.
  3. Dancers who are facing right pull by.

GRAND 1/4 THRU: Typical starting formation - column. Those who have right hands joined right arm turn 1/4, then those who have left hands joined left arm turn 1/2.

GRAND 3/4 THRU: Typical starting formation - column. Those who have right hands joined right arm turn 3/4, then those who have left hands joined left arm turn 1/2.

GRAND SWING THRU: Typical starting formation - tidal wave. Those who have right hands joined right arm turn 1/2, then those who have left hands joined left arm turn 1/2.

PING PONG CIRCULATE: Typical starting formation - quarter tag. Dancers in the wave step forward and trade with each other (passing left shoulders if the wave was left-handed), while the outsides step to a wave in the center, maintaining the handedness of the center wave. Ends in a quarter tag.

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