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Square Dance: Table of Contents

Square Dance Mainstream: Cross Fold

Cross Fold at Taminations
Cross Fold video (1:26 to 1:50)

Mainstream

Cross Fold

START:
a general line
(shown here:
‘ends cross fold’)
directed dancers (centers or ends)
fold towards the
farthest inactive dancer
note that you cross over
one person to end facing
the target dancer/position
Note: adjacent dancers have no active role in this call

Compare with: Fold
Mainstream

Cross Fold (continued)

↑ (from lines facing out) ↑
‘ends cross fold’
↓ (from ocean waves) ↓
when directed dancers face the same direction,
pass right shoulders