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Counter Rotate

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5.3: TIDAL WAVE

From a tidal wave, each dancer walks individually. After a Counter Rotate 1/4, the result is a new tidal wave oriented 90 degrees to the original one. (If the original tidal wave was facing head walls, the new one will be facing side walls.)

The two people in the very center keep holding hands -- everybody else must drop hands and re-form the tidal wave with new people.

The dancers are moving in four different circles. The very centers stay in the very center. The very end people remain very ends. The people in the center of each wave are still centers of their new waves. It is important that everybody maintain their distance from the center point, without drifting in or away, so that everybody can see whose hand to take when the new tidal wave forms.

This might be described as "a giant Lockit around the middle of the square". Of course a Challenge caller could simply say Counter Rotate.

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