I've been dancing both roles since before I started calling. I remember
dancing once with David Cantieni at Spring Weekend in the 80s, and women
getting mad at us because we should have danced with them... And, I
started using "Men" and "Women" almost when I started to call.
I used to say,
On Thu, Jan 21, 2016, Read Weaver via Callers wrote:
>
> I expect at the time you made the change from "ladies" to "women,"
> very few men would have considered dancing with another man, and
> those who did would have faced confusion at best, and hostility from
> some--I speak from my own
I will NEVER be using gyre, but several of the younger callers have decided
that's what they like. I think it is a ridiculous choice for a move, but
then I am one of the hold outs that believes that words have more than one
meaning and our use of gypsy is not offensive, so why listen to me?
But,
I expect at the time you made the change from "ladies" to "women," very few men
would have considered dancing with another man, and those who did would have
faced confusion at best, and hostility from some--I speak from my own
experience. As that has changed, so has the language. Sorry if you
Whew, it’s been a while since the earlier iteration of this conversation and my
mind is fuzzy. Does that mean that in the midwest you’ll be calling “gyre” as
in “With your partner, gyre and swing”? Or actually “gyrate”? Or…?
I tried using gyre at a dance in December, saying that it was a great
I'm not ignoring you guys (well, most of you anyway), I just got busy and I
was a bad student again and didn't write down my reference so I will have
to find it again. Right now I have glue in my eye, so it will have to
wait.
I also did not hear any more back from Carol, so I will report on what
Alan Winston asked (replying to Janet Bertog):
> Where did you find a dance description for Flowers of Edinburgh in the 1500s?
I, too, am curious. I suspect that Alan is asking this question,
as I am, more from an interest in the history of dancing and dance
terminology than for the purpose of
