On Thu, Jul 31, 2014, Chris Page wrote: > On Thu, Jul 31, 2014 at 7:17 PM, Aahz Maruch via Callers > <[email protected]> wrote: >> >> You definitely need to be careful explaining this -- I think of Cross >> Trail as leaving dancers facing the same direction, although your variant >> is also common. (No idea which is more common, particularly given the >> collapse of "Cross Trail" in general.) > > Cross Trails facing the same direction is something I've only > encountered in the MWSD Callerlab Advanced definitions. (And even > there, I understand, that decision was contentious.) Every instance > I've seen in a contra dance of crosstrails through has dancers facing > the next. (Pass right across, face along, pass left along the set, and > on to the next.)
I've never encountered Cross Trails in contra that I remember (over a quarter-century, though I make no promises with my hearing that I haven't danced it and just didn't hear the call name), so square dancing is the only usage I've ever seen. I've also been square dancing more than a quarter-century, so per an earlier discussion, I remember when Cross Trails was part of the Mainstream program. Anyway, just thought I'd warn about a potential glitch. Aside to Jim Saxe, can't remember if this came up earlier: http://www.dosado.com/lists/mshst.doc -- Hugs and backrubs -- I break Rule 6 http://rule6.info/ <*> <*> <*> "Just because I'm selling you into slavery doesn't mean we can't be friends." B-movie cliche Hall of Fame (_Bounty Hunter: 2002_) _______________________________________________ Callers mailing list [email protected] http://lists.sharedweight.net/listinfo.cgi/callers-sharedweight.net
