An Offset FORMATION is a formation which has been divided into two equal sub-formations that have been shifted some amount relative to the dividing line.

An Offset Column looks like this:     If you are here...   work as if you were here.

Offset (Parallel) Columns look like this:       (12-Matrix) Offset Columns (50% offset)   (16-Matrix) Offset Columns (100% offset)   In either case, work as if you were here.

An Offset Line | Wave looks like this:     If you are here...   work as if you were here.

Offset (Parallel) Lines | Waves look like this:       (12-Matrix) Offset Lines | Waves (50% offset)   (16-Matrix) Offset Lines | Waves (100% offset)   In either case, work as if you were here.

In Offset Lines | Waves, Centermost dancers should reach forward or backward (if possible) to touch hands with the adjacent dancers in their distorted Line. This helps identify who is working with whom.

对比下列各图   这是下列各图的起始队形:     Offset Columns Circulate 之后   Offset Waves Circulate 之后

Other formations can also be offset:     Offset Diamonds   imagine you are here     Offset Butterfly   imagine you are here

At C2, the caller generally restricts Offset FORMATION calls to easy calls which are not shape-changers. If the given call is a shape changer (that is, you are unable to end on the same set of footprints because the original 2 x 4 has rotated by 90°), then retain the Shear Line and the Shift Direction. See Appendix A for a discussion on Shape-Changing.

参见

• Parallelogram FORMATION [C2].
• Parallelograms and Offset Lines | Columns (by Keith Rubow)
• Parallelograms and Offsets Notes and Diagrams (by Charles Young)