CALLERLAB Program: Advanced 1
Teaching Resource for As Couples Concept
Links: Analyze – Module – Teach
Teaching Order: After Explode the Line
Recently taught calls: Step and Slide, Transfer the Column, Swap Around
Background: The As Couples Concept is listed in Burleson’s Encyclopedia as number 2880. That places it in the calls first listed in 1978. It was appended to the end of the 1982 A-1 List and was listed as call number 37 in the A-1 List of 9/1985.
Definition
Starting formations: Any formation composed only of Couples, for example Double Pass Thru, Facing Lines, or Parallel Two-Faced Lines.
Dance action: This is used to modify a call. Each couple acts as though it was a single dancer, and does the part of the call appropriate to its position in the starting formation.
Ending formations: A formation composed of couples.
For example, from Parallel Right-Hand Two-Faced Lines consider “As Couples Walk and Dodge”.
— Each couple works as a unit, and the dancers act as though they were in a Box Circulate formation.
— The couples facing in, take the part of single dancers facing in so they walk forward, and the couples facing out, take the part of single dancers facing out so they slide sideways to the right.
— The result is Lines Facing Out.
Timing: (depends on the call)
For Teaching: No one should let go of his partner during an As Couples call.
Link to Taminations:
Taminations As Couples Concept