I use the term "Petronella" while teaching. When calling during the dance I usually just say "twirl"
On Fri, Nov 23, 2012 at 3:10 PM, Maia McCormick <[email protected]> wrote: > So I had my first introduction to contradance through my school, taught by > student callers who had been taught by student callers before them, etc. I > was first taught to call a Petronella as... a Petronella. And then as I > started going to more outside dances and started reading up on the practice > of calling, I heard the move more and more just called as "balance the ring > and spin to the right" or "balance the ring and spin to swap." > > So, esteemed caller-folk, I ask you: how do* you* call a Petronella Turn? > By name, or with some other turn of phrase? Do you have any sense how > widespread either of these conventions are? Why not just call a Petronella > a Petronella? If you call it by description rather than by name, do you > generally put the entire call together (e.g. "BALance the RING and SPIN to > the RIGHT") or break it up ("BALance the RING... and SPIN to the RIGHT" so > that "spin to the right" ends up coming on beats 3 & 4, just before the > actual spinning occurs)? Any thoughts are welcome! > > Cheers, > Maia > _______________________________________________ > Callers mailing list > [email protected] > http://www.sharedweight.net/mailman/listinfo/callers >
