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Square Dance: Table of Contents

Square Dance Basic 2: Box the Gnat

Box the Gnat at Taminations
Box the Gnat video (1:07 to 1:55)

Basic 2

Box the Gnat

START:
facing dancers
(man/lady only)
ACTION:
both step forward;
loosely join right hands;
raise hands to form an arch;
lady: left u-turn back
under arch;
man: right u-turn back
END:
facing dancers
(places traded
from start);
right hands in
handshake position
Basic 2

Box the Gnat
(from right-hand wave)

START:
right-hand wave (#8)
ACTION:
drop center hands;
make arch and turn
as on other side
END:
facing couples