CALLERLAB Program: Advanced 1
Teaching Resource for Cast a Shadow
Links: Analyze – Module – Teach
Teaching Order: After Right (Left) Roll to a Wave
Recently taught calls: Mix, Lockit
Background: “Cast a Shadow” was created by Lee Kopman from Wantagh, New York in 1973. It was in the Advanced List in 1977 and in the A-1 List in 1980.
Definition:
Starting formations: From the following formations only:
— 2×4 with the ends forming a Tandem
— Promenade or Wrong Way Promenade
Dance action:
From a 2×4 formation with the Ends forming a Tandem: Ends 1/2 Zoom, Arm Turn 3/4, and Spread to become Ends of a 2×4. Meanwhile Centers facing out Cloverleaf and Centers facing in Extend, Arm Turn 1/4, and Extend. The Centers finish as Centers of a 2×4 by stepping in between Ends who spread apart. In the case in which all the Centers are facing in, they Pass In and Pass Thru; if all Centers are facing out, they Cloverleaf.
From Promenade or Wrong Way Promenade: The caller must designate two couples, for example, Heads Cast a Shadow. Everyone acts as though the formation were Two-Faced Lines, with the designated couples as the Leaders. Thus, the outsides 1/2 Zoom (with the designated outside acting as the Lead), Arm Turn 3/4, and Spread, while the designated centers Cloverleaf, and the other centers Arm Turn 1/4 and Extend. Ends in Parallel Waves.
Note: Cast a Shadow is not proper from Columns because the Ends are not in Tandem with each other.
Ending formations:
— Parallel Ocean Waves end in Parallel Two-Faced Lines of the opposite handedness.
— Parallel Two-Faced Lines end in Parallel Ocean Waves of the opposite handedness.
Timing: 10
Link to Taminations:
Taminations Cast a Shadow