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A Butterfly consists of dancers occupying the following spots in a 4 x 4 Matrix:

Butterfly FORMATION     From here...   imagine you are here.

A Butterfly is considered to be distorted Columns, as if the outside dancers slid apart from normal Columns.

before Butterfly Circulate   imagine you are here   after

before Butterfly Checkmate The Column   after

Traffic pattern: For simple calls (such as Circulate, Walk & Dodge, etc.) move directly to your ending footprints. For more complex calls, start the call working distorted, blend into a normal setup, complete the call normally, and then have the resulting Ends move away from the Center in order to re-establish the Butterfly footprints.

Sometimes the caller may wish you to start the call in your Butterfly but finish in a normal setup. In these cases the caller will put a suffix such as 'To Normal Waves', 'To A Line', 'To Columns', etc. (e.g., Butterfly Transfer The Column To Normal Waves).

Note: A Butterfly can also be T-Bone in which case you do your part working within your set of distorted Columns.

From here...   imagine you are here...   ... or here.

before Butterfly Split Counter Rotate 1/4   after

Mini-Butterfly [C1V]: A Mini-Butterfly is a 6-dancer Butterfly. E.g., from an Hourglass Ignore the points of the Center Diamond.

Mini-Butterfly FORMATION     Mini-Butterfly   think of working here

Big Block CONCEPT [C3A]: From applicable 4 x 4 Matrix formations such as Interlocked Blocks, a Butterfly, or an "O". Do the call working in distorted Parallel Lines.

"X" CONCEPT [C4] (Jim Davis): An "X" occupies the same footprints as a Butterfly but is considered to be two diagonal Columns which cross over each other in the middle. An "X" Circulate is the same as a Butterfly Circulate, except that the #3 dancers (in-facing Centers) do a Concentric Box Crossover Circulate (Jaywalk with each other).

See also "O" FORMATION [C1] and Squeeze [C1].

CALLERLAB definition for Butterfly Formation / Concept

Choreography for Butterfly Formation

Comments? Questions? Suggestions?

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