Grand Square ~ 6 Couple Rectangle

Grand Square ~ 6 Couple Rectangle is a Square Dance. It was published by sometime before 2024-05-11. It is a 6 Couple Rectangle dance. There is no progression in this dance. The dance lasts 72 bars.

My Square Dance group in Santa Barbara rarely has the 16 people needed for 2 squares, but often has more than 12. So we do a lot of 6 couple rectangle dances (The old Quadrille format with 4 head couples and 2 side couples).

But we never have done a grand square in this format. Of course the standard "Sides face, grand square" won't work (nor will "heads face"), but there are variations which do work. Here are three different examples with two couples in the middle of the square working in sync with the normal four couples on the outside.

This isn't a real dance, just an exploration of a single call in an unusual configuration.

(I am playing a little fast and loose with the definition of "grand square" here, technically the central couples should start by backing out of the middle, rather than leading forward, but I felt to start out backing would be fairly unintuitive, so I have them as they are.)

The animation plays at 120 counts per minute. Men are drawn as rectangles, women as ellipses. Each couple is drawn in its own color.

The dance contains the following figures: rights and lefts, grand square (and probably others).

If you find what you believe to be a mistake in this animation, please leave a comment on youtube explaining what you believe to be wrong. If I agree with you I shall do my best to fix it.

If you wish to link to this animation please see my comments on the perils of youtube. You may freely link to this page, of course, and that should have no problems, but use one of my redirects when linking to the youtube video itself:
https://www.upadouble.info/redirect.php?id=GrandSquare6Couple

I do not have a publication date for the dance and do not know whether it is under copyright or not. I do not have a date for the interpretation, so it may be under copyright. My visualization of this dance is copyright © 2024 by George W. Williams V and is released under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License.