Don, I too have called dances with a "hand cast" which essentially is a "gate". I believe I heard/learned it somewhere along the line and once taught ppl either go "i know this" "Oh! like a gate" or something similar. I too had an English dancer tell me there was no such thing as a hand cast....I like the term myself. I vote use it, I will continue to do so.
Mary Collins “Life is not about waiting for the storms to pass ... it's about learning to dance in the rain!” ~ Unknown On Mon, Oct 8, 2018 at 1:21 AM Don Veino via Callers < [email protected]> wrote: > You may have seen my "Feeling Gravity's Pull" which I posted at the end of > the recent Mad Robin teaching thread. > > In that dance, there's a move where partners are facing in side by side on > the outside of the set (where the Gents have forward momentum and the > Ladies neutral to backward momentum) and my intent was for them to rotate > around their inside hand connection with the Gents going forward and Ladies > backing up once around. (As opposed to the Gent walks a circle around the > Lady.) So the net effect would be like a courtesy turn, in going around a > central point between the dancers, just a little "wider." > > I believe the correct term for this would be "Hand Cast" but I had a > dancer who was adamant about it being a "Gate" in ECD so when I posted the > dance that's the term I used. I've again done some googling and found no > ready reference to a "Hand Cast" in ECD and only the slightest in a contra > context, yet the term sticks in my mind. > > What say ye? Is "Hand Cast" a thing and correct in this context? > > Thanks, > Don > _______________________________________________ > List Name: Callers mailing list > List Address: [email protected] > Archives: https://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/ >
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