Bree -- > I'm with you, and so is, eg "Heather and Rose" in Oregon and "Triangle Country > Dancers" in North Carolina. But I think that train has probably left the > station on self-consciously gender-free contra dancing.
> Actually, Triangle Country Dancers, primarily a contra dance group, is not >gender-free. Sun Assembly, the English group in our area, is. That's where I >learned to dance and call English and it was strange the first time I danced >elsewhere and had to acclimate to "Ladies" and "Men." (Even though I'd been >dancing and calling contras using gendered language.) I like the more relaxed >atmosphere of not needing to find a partner and no concern about gender <balance. Thanks for the correction. The one time I danced with y'all there, it was at a CDSS Traveling Exec meeting-related special dance, and there were folks from all the local groups, so I guess I got confused about who was which. Sorry to mis-attribute. -- Alan -- =============================================================================== Alan Winston --- [email protected] Disclaimer: I speak only for myself, not SLAC or SSRL Phone: 650/926-3056 Paper mail to: SSRL -- SLAC BIN 99, 2575 Sand Hill Rd, Menlo Park CA 94025 ===============================================================================
