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
Week 1
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 Through – (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)