Grand Square ~ Evens face, 6 couple rectangle

Grand Square ~ Evens face, 6 couple rectangle is a Square Dance. It was devised by sometime before 2024-05-11. It is a 6 Couple Rectangle dance. The minor set lasts 17 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 if the even couples face each other it all works out.

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

The animation plays at 120 counts per minute normally, but the first time through the set the dance will often be slowed down so people can learn the moves more readily. Men are drawn as rectangles, women as ellipses. Each couple is drawn in its own color, however the border of each dancer indicates what role they currently play so the border color may change each time through the minor set.

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=EvensFaceGrandRectangle

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.