Probably not. I called a dance (4 More Years, its on my website) with that figure on Friday night at Glen Echo. I deliberately didn't call the figure by that name since as soon as you mention the name of the figure, everyone who knows what it is starts. Instead, I described who was doing what and then said that it was like a shuttle or sliding doors. Later on in my calling I shortened the prompt to sideways. As far as I could judge, pretty much everyone got the move (there were about 50 newcomers and 200 more regular dancers).
At the end of the evening I was taken to task for not calling it by its proper name so that "everyone would know what it was"! Michael Barraclough www.michaelbarraclough.com On Sun, 2012-11-25 at 18:12 -0800, Greg McKenzie wrote: > Mark wrote: > > > Taking Beth's point, however, I fully support her premise of keeping > > terminology as simple and logical as possible. I'm likely to call something > > like "Balance the ring and twirl to the left." > > > > So...can we get rid of that "Angry Robin" figure now? > > - Greg McKenzie > _______________________________________________ > Callers mailing list > [email protected] > http://www.sharedweight.net/mailman/listinfo/callers
