Double Grand Square

The Double Grand Square is, in many respects, just like a standard Grand Square.

Here is a standard Grand Square:

1. You face only your partner or your opposite, and alternate between them.
   
2. Each person walks a small square in one quadrant of the large square.
3. A Grand Square begins with the heads moving forward towards their opposites for three steps, then turning to face their partners on count four,
   while
4. the sides back away from their partners for three steps, then turn to face their opposites on count four.
5. The call is "Heads Go Forward, Sides Divide." Once everyone knows what they are doing, the call is "Sides face, Grand square."

Here is a Double Grand Square

1. In the Double Grand Square, there are four extra couples, two in the middle, and two in the corners, here shown in green and blue.
2. The "original"square (heads and sides) face up and down the hall.
3. The "extra" couples (middles and corners) face across the hall.
4. The centers start essentially the way the sides do, that is, face their partners and back away from each other to start.
5. The corners start essentially the way the heads do, that is, walk forward towards their opposites.
6. From then on, if you are far from your partner or opposite after you turn on count four, you walk forwards towards them for three steps, then turn toward the other one on count four.
7. If you are close (face-to-face) to your partner or opposite after you turn, you walk backwards three steps, then turn to face the other one on count four.
8. Each person walks in the prescribed way around four sides of a square in one quadrant of the large square, then reverses and walks back the way they came around the same square.

In the images, the heads are red, the sides are purple, the centers are green and the corners are blue. Try watching just one person or one couple, or the four people who share a color (red, green, blue or purple).