The Once Removed concept is one of the hardest and least understood concepts in Challenge square dancing. The call was conceived by Norm Poisson in the early 1980s. It s currently on the C2 list.

The Once Removed concept is so powerful and flexible that it could be a Challenge level all by itself. Because of its power and flexibility, it causes a lot of problems for a great many dancers.

There are four generally used formations that see wide use with the Once Removed concept -- Once Removed from Lines/Waves, Once Removed from Columns, Once Removed from Tidal Formations and Once Removed from Diamonds.

Once Removed can be used with other concepts, such as Tandem and Initially. Because there are so many setups used with Once Removed, a large number of strategies must be used by dancers in Once Removed situations to dance this concept well. Dancers must attend a lot of dances before they see many of the uses of Once Removed.

Once Removed has so many uses from so many positions and with so many calls that it is probably impossible to state a consistent rule that dancers can use in most situations.

This paper will attempt to cover a set of strategies that may be used with some of the more commonly Once Removed situations. In no way does this paper try to cover all possible Once Removed setups.

This paper is intended to provide some standard rationales and methods for dancing the Once Removed concept and should be used together with the Once Removed Notes and Diagrams paper which contains many diagrams of Once Removed situations.

• Once Removed Definition
• Once Removed Problems
• Kinds of Once Removed Calls
• Once Removed Columns/Lines
• Once Removed Diamonds
• Once Removed Tidal Formations
• Once Removed Calls That End in Tidal Formations
• When Once Removed Goes Away
• Initially Once Removed Calls
• Multiple Ways to Do Once Removed Calls
• Once Removed Swing
• Twosome
• Conclusion