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Modern Western Square Dance is a sport that started back in the 1950s in America and since then has spread worldwide. All what is needed is eight dancers to form a square and a caller to tell them what to do. It is the caller's duty to move the square dancers around and around and in the end sort them, pair each dancer with the original partner and get them to their home position. Getting the dancers home is the tricky part of the caller's job. Different methods have been created to resolve squares; Mental Image is one of them, maybe the most unusual as it concentrates on one single dancer.
This book is for all Square Dance Callers. Additional it is for those who want to become a caller and those who are simply interested in how square dance calling with Mental Image works. It describes Mental Image step by step, its concepts, its rules, and what it does mean for the commands used in Mainstream and Plus level. Starting from a very limited model to explain the basic idea behind Mental Image, these limits are eliminated one by one with every new chapter.
Every Square Dance Caller should know about Mental Image, at least the basic ideas behind it. If he uses it in the end, and to which degree, that is up to him.
About the author
Rollo Leppin started as a Contra Prompter and then moved on to call Square Dance. He is active member of ECTA (European Callers and Teachers Association).
