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out all these brief diversions, on average the clear direction of travel is anticlockwise around the
floor.
The direction of Line of Dance is different at different points of the floor and also depends on the
style of dance.
4.1 Line of dance in sequence dances
Sequence dances are performed in ‘circle’, which in reality is hardly ever a true circle in the
geometric sense. At popular dances, there may be a second circle running inside the first. When this
happens, the convention is that faster dancers favour the inner circle.
On a very small square dance floor the ‘circle’ may really be a circle and LOD is the direction
anticlockwise around the circle. That is, the direction is continuously updated as you progress.
On very small non-square rectangular floors the ‘circle’ may be an ellipse. However, on any
reasonable size floor, the ‘circle’ tends to be a rectangle with rounded corners as shown below.
This is the solution which wastes as little floor space as possible, thus fitting as many couples in the
‘circle’ as possible.
At any point on this ‘circle’ the Line of Dance is still the direction clockwise around the ‘circle’.
That is, while travelling along the straight sections of the ‘circle’, line of dance stays constant and is
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