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B

Dance Title	Type	Deviser (or Editor/Publisher), Date, Interpreter	Music Performers	Formation
Brace Yourself		Scott Higgs 2016		Duple Minor

C

Dance Title	Type	Deviser (or Editor/Publisher), Date, Interpreter	Music Performers	Formation
Changeling Intuition		Joseph Pimentel 2004	Goldcrest	Duple Minor

G

Dance Title	Type	Deviser (or Editor/Publisher), Date, Interpreter	Music Performers	Formation
The Good Life		Bob Isaacs (date unknown)		Becket

H

Dance Title	Type	Deviser (or Editor/Publisher), Date, Interpreter	Music Performers	Formation
Heyallemande		Jim Hemphill (date unknown)		Duple Minor
Hotpoint Special		Joseph Pimentel 2005	Goldcrest	Becket CCW

M

Dance Title	Type	Deviser (or Editor/Publisher), Date, Interpreter	Music Performers	Formation
Mad For You		Vic Ceder 2019		Short Waves
Mainstream Rectangle #1332		Vic Ceder ~2015		6 Couple Rectangle

P

Dance Title	Type	Deviser (or Editor/Publisher), Date, Interpreter	Music Performers	Formation
Plus Hex #10348		Vic Ceder ~2015		6 Couple Circle

S

Dance Title	Type	Deviser (or Editor/Publisher), Date, Interpreter	Music Performers	Formation
Sasna's Swing		Joseph Pimentel 2004		Duple Minor

Warning: The figures for each dance is generated programmatically by regular expression matching and may be in error. Also, for old dances, they reflect the figures used by the interpreter which may not match those of the deviser.

Swing Through

An online definition may be found here.

Bars: 4.

A swing through starts from a wavy line of four dancers (each dancer facing the opposite way from those adjacent) holding hands. Those holding left hands drop them, and those who can turn right half. Then drop right hands and take left hands where possible, and turn half left.

History

In the 19^th century the term "swing" had many meanings, but it did not mean a partner swing. It most frequently meant a hand turn, a right hand turn if nothing else was specified.

As is usual with square dance calls, I cannot track what happened between 1939 (when Lloyd Shaw doesn't mention it in Cowboy Dances) and 1975 when CALLERLAB published the mainstream list.

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