In ECD, someone (I believe it was Fried de Metz Herman) came up with a figure called face en face, with a French pronunciation. Not sure why it wasn't face à face. I describe it as the last two-thirds of a 1-1/2 dos à dos.
On Fri, Feb 5, 2016 at 10:30 AM, Jonathan Sivier via Callers < [email protected]> wrote: > I just had a thought for another possible substitute if we need to > replace the term "gypsy". This would be "vis-a-vis" (face to face). I > like this since it is in some sense similar to dos-a-dos (back to back) and > makes them complimentary figures. I think it suggests the importance of > facing the person you are dancing with, making eye contact, though not > necessarily staring, during the figure. Since many of the figure names in > country dance come from French words, sometimes corrupted by time and the > folk process, it seems reasonable to borrow another French term. I'm not > aware of this term already being used for some other dance figure, let me > know if it is. Even though it has 3 syllables instead of 2 I kind of like > the sound of "vis-a-vis and swing!" > > Just putting it out there for your consideration. > >
