Swing
Links: Define – Standard – Module – Teach – Other
Call Analysis:
Hands needed at the start: Both used but nice to have just used left so that it is easy to step up with right sides together.
Hands held at the end: Both if transition is to a Promenade
Body flow at the start: CW
Body flow at the end: CW
Good preceding calls:
— Grand Right and Left
Good following calls:
— Promenade
Ending Formations for Standard Starting Formations and Arrangements:
— In modern square dancing the most common application of Swing ends either in Normal Couples Promenading, or in a Static Square of Normal Couples at home. This applies to starting from a Right and Left Grand Circle, an Eight Chain Thru, Right-Hand Parallel Waves, Trade By, Lines Facing Out, a Static Square, or a Circle moving either way.
— Some traditional figures have the Heads Swing Their Opposite and end as a normal couple facing the nearest side couple.
— In Contra dancing a Swing may end in long facing lines of Normal Couples or with the Normal Couples facing up or down the hall as directed.
Some Extended Applications:
ARC Rulings (Applications Review Committee of CALLERLAB): (none)