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Square Dance Mainstream: Allemande Thar

Allemande Thar at Taminations
Allemande Thar video (0:50 to 1:30)

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Allemande Thar

A ‘Thar Star’ is a formation (#20; wrong-way #21).
‘Thars’ and ‘Wrong Way Thars’ are ‘formations in motion’.

‘(Make an) Allemande Thar’ is a ‘suffix command’:
it may be added to a call after a left arm turn.
It instructs center/directed dancers to form a right-hand star (#48) and back up.
Outsides move forward, forearm hold with centers.

center dancers
form a right-hand star ...

... and back up ...

... while outside dancers
move forward,
forearm hold with centers
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