[Noho] April 4th

[Bethany Seeger]

Howdy dancers,

Just the friendly, weekly reminder about Tuesday night dancing.

Well, we're _almost_ done with mainstream. Pretty amazing, to learn it
all in 3 months! Good work!

I've included some definitions below of the calls we've learned over the
last few weeks.

See you all tomorrow night!
Bethany

TAG THE LINE: Starting formation – any line with an even number of
dancers. Each dancer turns individually to face the center of the line.
Taking a short side step to the left, dancers walk forward passing right
shoulders with oncoming dancers until they have walked past all of the
dancers from the other half of the line. The call may be followed by any
one of the directions In, Out, Right or Left. When this happens, dancers
turn in place one quarter (90°) in the direction indicated.

HALF TAG: Starting formation – any line with an even number of dancers.
Like tag the line, except the dancers stop walking forward when the
original center from each side of the line meets the original end from
the other side. If started from a four-person line, the ending is a
right-hand box circulate formation; from longer lines the ending is a
right-hand column formation.

3/4 TAG THE LINE: Starting formation – any line with four dancers. Like
tag the line, except dancers stop in a 3/4 tag formation, with lead
dancers facing out and trailers in a wave or mini-wave between the
out-facing dancers.

CROSS FOLD: Starting formation – line, two-faced line, or wave. The
directed (active) dancers, who must either both be centers or both be
ends, fold toward the farthest inactive dancer by walking in a
semi-circle to end facing toward that dancer. When the active dancers
are both facing the same direction, they move forward in a semi-circle,
pass right shoulders with each other and fold toward the inactive dancer.

SLIDE THRU: Starting formation – facing dancers. Dancers pass thru then
turn one quarter (90°). Men always turn right; women always turn left.
Dancers end side by side.

RECYCLE: Starting formation – ocean wave. Centers move forward in a
small semi-circle to stand behind the adjacent end. All four dancers
walk forward one quarter of a circle in a smooth arc, then all turn in
place one quarter (90°) toward the foursome. End as facing couples.