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Square Dance: Table of Contents

Square Dance Basic 1: Rollaway

Rollaway at Taminations
Rollaway video (3:55 to 4:25)

Basic 1

Rollaway

START:
adjacent,
same-facing
couple 		dancers exchange places:
man puts both palms up
in front of him;
lady uses man's palms to balance
as she rolls to left;
man steps right to occupy
lady's prior position 		END:
same as start,
but dancers exchanged
Basic 1

Rollaway (from a circle)


START
ACTION
END
only difference: man does not move;
lady rolls from right of man all the way to left
Note: In a ‘rollaway’ call, sometimes the man moves, and sometimes he doesn't.
From a circle moving left, the man stops moving for a moment while the woman rolls across.

Some callers say ‘Rollaway with a Half Sashay’ to emphasize that the man should move.
The ‘rollaway’ part of the call is for the woman; the ‘half sashay’ part reminds the man to scoot over!