Mainstream
Cloverleaf
Links: Define – Standard – Module – Teach – Other – Extend
Call Analysis:
Hands needed at the start: Neither
Hands held at the end: Adjacent hands to make the new formation
Body flow at the start: Forward and clockwise (for dancer on the right) or counter-clockwise (for dancer on the left)
Body flow at the end: Same as at the start
Good preceding calls:
— Heads Pass Thru
— Double Pass Thru
(When it has been learned) — Tag the Line
Good following calls:
— Centers Pass Thru
— Centers Square Thru
— Centers Swing Thru
— Double Pass Thru
Ending Formations for Standard starting Formation and Arrangements:
a) Completed Double Pass Thru, Normal Couples: Cloverleaf
Ends in Double Pass Thru, Normal Couples
b) Completed Double Pass Thru, all arrangements: Cloverleaf
Ends in Double Pass Thru with each dancer in the same type of couple as at the start
c) Inverted Square, Normal Couples: Heads Pass Thru and Cloverleaf
Ends in Double Pass Thru, Normal Couples
d) Trade By, Normal Couples: Outsides Cloverleaf
The centers stay in their box while those who Cloverleaf end as Normal Couples facing the shoulders of the center dancers.
Some Extended Applications:
a) Although the current Standard Applications document lists All Arrangements from a Completed Double Pass Thru, some dancers rarely experience anything except the Normal Couple arrangement. In those places the b) example above belongs in the Extended Application category.
Completed Double Pass Thru, all arrangements: Cloverleaf
Ends in Double Pass Thru with each dancer in the same type of couple as at the start
ARC Rulings (Applications Review Committee of CALLERLAB): (none)