CALLERLAB Program: Advanced 1
Teaching Resource for Double Star Thru
Links: Analyze – Module – Teach
Teaching Order: After Scoot and Dodge
Recently taught calls: As Couples Concept, Ends Bend, Square Chain Thru
Background: The author of Double Star Thru is unknown. It is number 347 in Burleson’s Encyclopedia, which implies existence by or before 1967. It was in the CALLERLAB Advanced List for 1977 and it was listed as A-1 about 1980. (Star Thru was created in 1960 by Ed Michl from Coshocton, Ohio.)
Definition
Starting formations: Any appropriate formation (for example, Normal Facing Couples)
Dance action: Those who can Star Thru. Those who can do the mirror image of a Star Thru (an arch is made with the man’s left hand and the woman’s right hand; the man goes around the arch while the lady goes under). In each part of the call, some dancers must be active.
Ending formations: Normal Facing Couples will end as Sashayed Couples Back-to-Back.
For example, consider Double Star Thru from Normal Facing Couples:
— All four dancers use their inside hands to do the first Star Thru.
— After the first Star Thru the dancers are still in Normal Facing Couples with the original Partners now facing each other.
— For the second Star Thru the Facing Dancers use their outside hands and the woman again turns under the arch.
— The dancers end in Back-to-Back Half-Sashayed Couples.
Timing: 6
Link to Taminations:
Taminations Double Star Thru