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Today's Topics:
1. Re: workshop ideas (Laur)
2. Gender Swapping (Jerome Grisanti)
3. Re: Gender Swapping (Mark Galipeau)
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Message: 1
Date: Wed, 9 Sep 2009 11:45:46 -0700 (PDT)
From: Laur <[email protected]>
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Subject: Re: [Callers] workshop ideas
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Barb,
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It's always fun to watch the gents do that first ladies chain in reverse
role.
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I agree with David's comments, that sometimes its just fun to catch them
by surprise.
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Ah-ha moments for both genders are how important it is to help your
partner, guide them into a move or the next position, or ending in the
position that fits the figure.
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Limp noodles are a good point when they reverse.
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Positioning - considerations with height and girth.
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Some of these things are incidental to the gender workshop, but it all
counts.
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Laurie Pietravalle
MI
--- On Tue, 9/8/09, Barbara Groh <[email protected]> wrote:
From: Barbara Groh <[email protected]>
Subject: [Callers] workshop ideas
To: [email protected]
Date: Tuesday, September 8, 2009, 8:59 PM
Hey, y'all,
I'm going to be facilitating a "gender-swap" w.s. at Moondance in a few
days.? I've never been to a workshop on this topic, and I thought I would
solicit ideas from the group.???Has anybody been to (or perhaps led) a
gender-swap session????Any gems you can share with me on what worked well
or what didn't?
Thanks!!
Barbara
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Message: 2
Date: Wed, 9 Sep 2009 16:27:23 -0500
From: Jerome Grisanti <[email protected]>
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Subject: [Callers] Gender Swapping
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Barbara,
The two things that are most confusing when changing genders are the chain
and the swing.
For the chain, you might review courtesy turn and also the twirl. Make
sure
twirlers know their hand should be directly over the head of the twirlee,
and their hand should remain open (not gripping).
When I mentioned to one group that the twirler's hand should remain open,
a
roar of women's voices said "Yes!" and I just added, "gentlemen, the
twirlees have spoken..."
--Jerome
Message: 2
Date: Tue, 8 Sep 2009 19:59:44 -0500
From: "Barbara Groh" <[email protected]>
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Hey, y'all,
I'm going to be facilitating a "gender-swap" w.s. at Moondance in a few
days. I've never been to a workshop on this topic, and I thought I would
solicit ideas from the group. Has anybody been to (or perhaps led) a
gender-swap session? Any gems you can share with me on what worked well
or
what didn't?
Thanks!!
Barbara
--
Jerome Grisanti
660-528-0858
http://www.jeromegrisanti.com
For the good are always the merry,
Save by an evil chance,
And the merry love the fiddle
And the merry love to dance. ~ William Butler Yeats
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Message: 3
Date: Wed, 9 Sep 2009 15:27:15 -0700 (PDT)
From: Mark Galipeau <[email protected]>
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Subject: Re: [Callers] Gender Swapping
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If the group is alert, what my dance partners and I occasionally enjoy, is
memorizing both roles in the dance, then each iteration when there is a
swing your partner, we swap gender roles.
ie: first swing I lead, then the next time we come back to swing my
partner immediately takes the lead role and swings me.? Some dances are
challenging and if the grey matter is slow, or it is late in the evening
this can really snafu the line.
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Chris Ricciotti has a great web resouce on Gender Free Contra on this web
site.
http://www.lcfd.org/Articles/GFManual/index.html
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Mark Galipeau
Queer Contra Dancer
We swing both ways, and then some.
--- On Wed, 9/9/09, Jerome Grisanti <[email protected]> wrote:
From: Jerome Grisanti <[email protected]>
Subject: [Callers] Gender Swapping
To: [email protected]
Date: Wednesday, September 9, 2009, 2:27 PM
Barbara,
The two things that are most confusing when changing genders are the chain
and the swing.
For the chain, you might review courtesy turn and also the twirl. Make
sure
twirlers know their hand should be directly over the head of the twirlee,
and their hand should remain open (not gripping).
When I mentioned to one group that the twirler's hand should remain open,
a
roar of women's voices said "Yes!" and I just added, "gentlemen, the
twirlees have spoken..."
--Jerome
Message: 2
Date: Tue, 8 Sep 2009 19:59:44 -0500
From: "Barbara Groh" <[email protected]>
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Subject: [Callers] workshop ideas
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Hey, y'all,
I'm going to be facilitating a "gender-swap" w.s. at Moondance in a few
days.? I've never been to a workshop on this topic, and I thought I would
solicit ideas from the group.???Has anybody been to (or perhaps led) a
gender-swap session????Any gems you can share with me on what worked well
or
what didn't?
Thanks!!
Barbara
--
Jerome Grisanti
660-528-0858
http://www.jeromegrisanti.com
For the good are always the merry,
Save by an evil chance,
And the merry love the fiddle
And the merry love to dance. ~ William Butler Yeats
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