How do you feel, in a gender-neutral series, about leaving the decision of larks/robins vs. positional to the caller, so long as it's declared and publicized in advance? At least in some areas, there are not enough positional callers to have an all-positional series.
Thanks, --jh-- On Mon, Oct 30, 2023 at 12:32 AM Lisa Marie Lunt via Organizers < organizers@lists.sharedweight.net> wrote: > I think it's important to listen to what Don Veino just wrote. Don is both > a caller and organizer. It's not fair to put the responsibility for > choosing role names on the callers. It's the organizers' responsibility to > make decisions about our dances. > > Lisa Lunt > She/her > Jamaica Plain (Boston) Gender Free Contra Dance > > On Sun, Oct 29, 2023, 4:17 PM Don Veino via Organizers < > organizers@lists.sharedweight.net> wrote: > >> As a caller and organizer, this is a hot button topic for me. Please, if >> you are organizing a dance, take responsibility for this decision and make >> it clearly public to your participants in advance. I understand you may be >> uncomfortable making this choice and possibly want to "please everybody" by >> leaving it to the caller but that just sets up the worst dynamic for all. >> >> My take is that the dance's organizers *own* the culture and >> implementation policies of their dance. If you would not leave it up to the >> caller to decide to do swing dance instead or declare the admission is half >> off for a given event, then you shouldn't leave such a topic to them either. >> >> "Traditional", Larks/ Robins, positional - alternating per event, >> whatever - make the determination and let the people coming know in advance. >> >> I personally will no longer accept bookings from a dance that doesn't >> have a stated role term policy. I will call with the terms stated (or >> decline the event). I had a booking for a longstanding dance which changed >> from decades of "Traditional" to "Caller's Choice" after booking me, with >> no heads up. I first heard of it when I started hearing from people >> advocating for one or the other terms, as "my choice". The organizers >> wouldn't make the call and the publicity was already out there. Bad scene >> for all, not the way to set up dance joy. >> >> On Sun, Oct 29, 2023, 1:28 PM Sandy Seiler via Organizers < >> organizers@lists.sharedweight.net> wrote: >> <snip> >> Currently terminology is the caller's decision. So it goes back and >> forth from gendered to non gendered. That is not mentioned on the website, >> but I do know that at least one of our callers has requested that the >> Lawrence board make a decision about it so the callers don't have that >> responsibility and possible fall out from it. >> </snip> >> _______________________________________________ >> Organizers mailing list -- organizers@lists.sharedweight.net >> To unsubscribe send an email to organizers-le...@lists.sharedweight.net >> > _______________________________________________ > Organizers mailing list -- organizers@lists.sharedweight.net > To unsubscribe send an email to organizers-le...@lists.sharedweight.net >
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