Hi Jeremy, At MIT’s Tech Squares, “boys” and “girls” are used, sometimes with “ladies” and “gents” thrown in. However, many dancers dance either role. If you are dancing a role that does not visibly match your gender, you typically call out (not too loudly) “boy” or “girl”, when the caller gives a call that is specific to a gender. As you get more accomplished as a dancer, you seem to not need to call that out as much - if the dance is moving, the flow of the dance should usually indicate who is supposed to move.
Seth > On Oct 4, 2017, at 1:54 PM, Jeremy Child via Callers > <[email protected]> wrote: > > Hi > > I have a question for anyone who calls or dances Gender Free MWSD (by Gender > Free I mean where no assumptions are made about what role a dancer will take > based on their gender). > > I've been told that GF MWSD dances still use the terms "Boys" and "Girls", > but please correct me if I'm wrong. > > MWSD is unique amongst folk dancing in that dancers need to know the role > being danced by others in the square (if I'm a "boy" and the call is "boys > trade", I need to know who the other boy in my line / wave is in order to do > the call). > > So to my question: How do the dancers identify which roles the other people > are dancing? Traditionally this is done with dancers taking the opposite role > to their gender wearing bands, but that is surely inappropriate if the dance > is GF. > > Also, if any MWSD clubs are using truly non-gendered terms, please let me > know. > > Thanks in Advance > > Jeremy > www.barndancecaller.net <http://www.barndancecaller.net/> > www.genderfreedance.net > <http://www.genderfreedance.net/>_______________________________________________ > List Name: Callers mailing list > List Address: [email protected] > Archives: https://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/
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