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21: CIRCULATES AND TRADES IN WAVES
Just as eight dancers can be arranged in parallel one-faced or two-faced lines, they can be arranged in parallel waves.Each wave has two centers. The four dancers who are centers of a wave are also considered to be the centers of the whole formation. These dancers form a box, and they can circulate in that box. This is a Centers Circulate.
The four other dancers are considered to be the ends of the whole formation, and they also have a circulate path. So they can do an Ends Circulate.
All 8 Circulate means that the Ends and the Centers should Circulate at the same time, each along their own path. The Ends stay as Ends and the Centers stay as Centers.
But there is another set of circulate paths in parallel waves. Instead of looking at the eight dancers as two waves, we can look at them as two boxes, side by side. The four dancers in each box can circulate within that box. This is called Split Circulate.
When the dancers are in parallel waves, both Circulates and Trades are possible. Both Circulates and Trades involve dancers walking into another spot, but they are different in important ways:
- A Trade involves only two spots. Each dancer is moving into the other spot. There may be several pairs of dancers doing a Trade at the same time, but the dancers in each pair are only moving between two spots. In addition, the two spots are always in the same line. They may be near each other, even adjacent, or they may be far apart, "down the line", but each dancer will always be moving to a spot either directly to his/her left or directly his/her right -- never forward or back into another line.
- A Circulate is done along a path that involves more than two spots, and these spots are normally not all in the same line. Instead, they form some two-dimensional shape, such as the boxes we have seen in all the examples we have looked at so far.
In parallel waves, Circulates are possible because there are boxes. At the same time, Trades are possible because at the same time there are two waves (which are a kind of line).
For example, in parallel waves Centers Trade means that the centers of each wave Trade -- they do not move into the other wave.
By contrast, in parallel waves Centers Circulate means that all four centers, who form a box, circulate along the path through those four spots. That path does involve both waves.
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