Square Dance Tutorial

GDP for SSD Dancers

Table of Contents
Introduction
Single Circle to a Wave
Walk and Dodge
Diamond Circulate
Cut the Diamond
Spin the Top
Roll
Pass to the Center
Cloverleaf
Ping Pong Circulate
Track 2
Load the Boat
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6: SPIN THE TOP

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The call Spin the Top is most frequently done from a wave. First, each end and the adjacent center Arm Turn 1/2 (or trade). Then the end and center dancers drop hands with each other, and everybody walks forward around the center point of the wave. The new end dancers walk 1/4 of a circle. Meanwhile the new center two dancers, holding hands with each other, do a Cast Off 3/4, walking in a smaller circle.

Note that:

  • Everybody ends up with the same person with whom they started.
  • If they start facing head walls they end facing side walls, and if they start facing side walls they end facing head walls.

Spin the Top can also be done from facing couples. In this case, the dancers first step to a wave and trade with the dancers they were facing -- then the new centers turn 3/4 while the new ends walk 1/4 of a circle around them.

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