I suspect that for prompting people to act figure descriptions resembling
verbs ("slide about") are better than than those resembling nouns ('sliding
doors") Michael Fuerst 802 N Broadway Urbana IL 61801 217 239
5844
On Wednesday, December 16, 2015 2:19 AM, Alan Winston via Callers
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I use "Mad Robin" because that's what people use around here, but I kinda
like "sliding doors" for the figure.
-- Alan
On 12/15/15 10:20 PM, Michael Fuerst via Callers wrote:
Movements are best described with the minimal syllables possible with minimal
jargon.
"Mad Robin" became part of contra in the last ten years or so. Unless
someone comes up with more succinct and descriptive words, we are probably
stuck with "Mad Robin" Actually now that I think about it, one could describe
the Mad Robin action as "side gypsy"
"California twirl" predates my 1985 introduction to contra. One could
say "twirl to swap," but that is not any more helpful for new dancers.
California twirl is here to stay.
Concerning "petromella" when I started contra dancing, callers teaching a
dance, would almost always say something like "balance and shift one place and
spin if you wish as in Petromella" and would prompt during the dance with
"balance and spin" or "balance and shift." In the mid '80's we actually
danced "Petronella" often enough so that most dancers knew from where it came.
Only in the past ten years has some callers started calling the move
Petronella. I will always teach and prompt this without reference to
"Petronella" and avoid the unnecessary jargon
There is no compelling reason to stop using gypsy.
Michael Fuerst 802 N Broadway Urbana IL 61801 217 239 5844
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On Tuesday, December 15, 2015 8:54 PM, Aahz Maruch via Callers
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On Tue, Dec 15, 2015, Michael Fuerst via Callers wrote:
>
> "Balance and spin" has the same number of syllables as "Petronella"
> and avoids unnecessary jargon
Of course, some of us think that unless there's a compelling reason (as
possibly in the case of "gypsy"), keeping the old terminology is part of
the charm of folk dancing (in the generic sense, as opposed to IFD).
Should we also get rid of "California Twirl" and "Mad Robin"?
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