Cloverleaf – Analysis

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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
— 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:

Comment: 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.

ARC Rulings (Applications Review Committee of CALLERLAB): (none)