> No advice directly related, but the square dance community has decreed > that all calls are given in English (much the same way that pretty much > all programming languages have their keywords in English). Kinda rude in > some ways, but it does mean that people can travel to other countries and > still square dance.
An argument can be made that our calls are mostly a mishmash of words from different languages that don't mean too much and just have to be memorized. What would be wonderful for non-English speaking contradancers, would be something like the excellent wiki http://ruedawiki.org/ that describes in English the moves and the pronunciation of the calls for Rueda a kind of round dancing of Salsa with calls in English Spanish and Spanglish http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Salsa_Rueda. Even though contradancing had a long history in the Caribbean, this book chapter http://www.temple.edu/tempress/chapters_1800/1954_ch1.pdf does not talk much about the names of the moves, but if I dug deeper for more information about the largely forgotten contradanza I might find something useful.
