I think we have to simply admit that the folk process has done its work in this case. For years I have danced contras with yearns which went only one couple. So pervasive was it that when I wrote a dance with a variation on the move, I called it 'yearn to a gypsy'. Note, I dance in the SE now, and danced in NE before. So, when I called this dance in the PNW, many were confused by the appellation because to them, a yearn is two couples on. I don't know that we will ever 'fix' the misunderstanding on this coast. It's pretty entrenched. There is an alternate, I believe proposed by Bob Isaacs. When going just one couple, he calls it a slice. Slice sounds a little sharp to me, and I wish we could simply yearn one place or two. I changed the name of the move in my dance to Swirl to a Gypsy, so my PNW friends will not be confused. Cheers, Andrea
Sent from my iPhone On Dec 14, 2012, at 6:59 PM, Rich Goss <[email protected]> wrote: > My understanding is that the yearn progresses to the second couple. The > original George Walker version did just that. His description is that as > you pass the first couple you "yearn" to dance with them, but you don't. > Hence the term. > > On Dec 14, 2012, at 1:37 PM, Alan Winston <[email protected]> wrote: > >> >> I posted a dance description once with "Yearn" in it for a single sideways >> Becket progression, and I >> was told that was incorrect, that "Yearn" meant forward on the diagonal to >> next couple and then back >> on the diagonal to finish opposite the *next* couple, progressing two >> places. (I'm not saying "double >> progression" because that's, in my view, a feature of the whole dance >> choreography, and if you had >> choreography that backed you up one place and then you progressed forward >> two, you might have a single >> progression dance with this progress two places move in it.) >> >> I've seen a couple of people post recently with Yearn for what looks to me >> like progressing one place. >> >> What do you folks think Yearn means? What do your dancers think? >> >> -- Alan >> _______________________________________________ >> Callers mailing list >> [email protected] >> http://www.sharedweight.net/mailman/listinfo/callers > _______________________________________________ > Callers mailing list > [email protected] > http://www.sharedweight.net/mailman/listinfo/callers
