Plus
Follow Your Neighbor
Links: Define – Standard – Module – Teach – Other – Extend
Call Analysis:
Hands needed at the start: The Trailers need the same hand as they were holding in the box.
Hands held at the end: Centers of the wave are still holding hands.
Body flow at the start: Trailers are moving forward, from a right-hand box, Leaders are turning clockwise.
Body flow at the end: From a right-hand box all dancers are turning clockwise.
Good preceding calls:
— Centers Trade
— Swing Thru
— Touch 1/4
— Scoot Back
Good following calls:
— Left Swing Thru
— Recycle
— and Spread
— Acey Deucey
Ending Formations for Standard starting Formation and Arrangements:
a) Right-Hand Parallel Waves, “1” (Boys facing in and Girls facing out): Follow Your Neighbor
Ends in Left-Hand Parallel Waves, “0” (Boys in center)
b) Right-Hand Parallel Waves, “1” (Boys facing in and Girls facing out): Follow Your Neighbor and Spread
Ends in Right-Hand Parallel Waves, “0” (Girls in center)
c) Center Four dancers in a Right-Hand Box Circulate, Boys facing in and Girls facing out: Centers Follow Your Neighbor
Ends in a centers Left Hand Wave, “0” (Boys in center)
Some Extended Applications:
a) Left-Hand Parallel Waves, “1” (Boys facing in and Girls facing out): Follow Your Neighbor
Ends in Right-Hand Parallel Waves, “1/2” (Boys in center)
b) Right-Hand Parallel Waves, “2” (Girls facing in and Boys facing out): Follow Your Neighbor
Ends in Left-Hand Parallel Waves, “1/2” (Girls in center)
c) Right-Hand 1/4 Tag, “1” or “2” (Wave all one gender): Follow Your Neighbor
Ends in Right-Hand Parallel Waves, “1” or “2” (same gender in the center as in starting wave)
ARC Rulings (Applications Review Committee of CALLERLAB):
(April 2002)
Q: Is it acceptable to call “Follow Your Neighbor” from a 1/4 Tag formation?
A: No. The reason being that this application does not comply with the CALLERLAB definition. This call must be done from a box circulate formation.
ARC Ruling Note: In 2016 the Plus Committee voted to change the definition of Follow Your Neighbor to allow it to begin from a Single 1/4 Tag.