The Square Dancing App – TAMINATIONS
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Taminations provides written definitions and animations to help you learn square dance calls. You may view calls from different starting positions, create sequences of calls, and quiz yourself using the “practice” feature. There are also notes about styling and common ways you’ll see the calls. In total there are over 3000 animations covering 500+ calls (covering mainstream, plus, advanced, and challenge levels)!
Demo Videos
October 25
Tag the Line [0:17], Half Tag [0:56]
October 22
Centers In
Cast Off 3/4 [0:47]
Wheel Around [1:33]
Fold [0:53], Cross Fold [1:30]
October 18
Zoom [2:26]
Spin the Top [0:17]
October 15
Ladies In and the Men Sashay [4:26]
Flutter Wheel [1:22]
Reverse Flutter Wheel [2:02]
Sweep a Quarter
Heads / Sides Promenade Halfway [3:53]
October 11
Box the Gnat [1:09]
Slide Thru [2:42]
Trade By [2:19]
October 8
Ferris Wheel [1:37]
First Couple go Left, Next Couple go Right [0:21]
Walk and Dodge [1:47]
October 4
Swing Thru [0:35]
Pass the Ocean [2:20]
Extend [3:32]
Alamo Style [0:49]
Square Thru 2, 3 – See September 20
October 1
U Turn Back [0:39]
Partner Trade – California Twirl with no hands [1.32]
Touch a Quarter [0:18]
Step to an Ocean Wave [0:16]
Wheel and Deal (from a two-faced line) [0:45]
Wheel and Deal (from a line all facing the same direction – couple on the right has “right of way”) [0:30]
Swing [2:39]
Hinge [1:25]
Couples Hinge [0:35]
September 27
Circle Left
Half Sashay, Roll Away [3:11]
Boy Run (Around the Girl) [1:04]
Circulate, Boys / Girls Circulate, All 8 Circulate [0:12]; Couples Circulate [1:10]
Column Circulate, Split Circulate
September 24
Chain Down the Line [2:57]
Right/Left – Hand Star [2:28]
Weave the Ring [1:50]
Double Pass Thru [2:49]
Lead to the Right [1:05]
Veer Left / Right [0:13]
September 20
Lines Up to the Middle and Back [2:07]
Bend the Line [2:32]
Square Thru [0:18]
September 17
Star Through [2:15]
Ladies Chain
September 10, 13
Couples 1, 2, 3, and 4 – The couple with their backs to the caller is couple one. Continue numbering the couples in a counter-clockwise fashion.
Head and Side Couples – The couples facing and with their backs to the caller are heads (couples 1 and 3). The others (2 and 4) are sides.
Partner, Corner, Opposite, Right-hand Lady – Your partner is who you are currently holding hands with (men on the left, women on the right). Your “partner” will temporarily change as you move through different calls. When standing in a square, face away from your partner – that’s your corner! Across the square is your opposite.
The Nature of Calls – Calls are issued to the men, unless prefaced by a qualifier such as “ladies” or “centers”.
Dosado [1:42]
See Saw – walk around the person the caller instructs (can be partner or corner) passing LEFT shoulders [3:07]
Allemande Left
Right and Left Grand
Promenade [3:03]
Pass Through [0:13]
Separate [1:41]
Split Two / Go Around One [2:29]
California Twirl [1:02]
Dive Thru – (note: instead of a “partner trade”, the outside couples perform a “California twirl”) [2:54]
Grand Square [1:18]
Right and Left Through / Courtesy Turn – (the “Courtesy Turn” is the turning portion of the Right and Left Through)