Lessons are a different ball of wax, especially if you are teaching both
roles to everyone. Sashes seem reasonable there. I'm talking about
dancers at the competent level and above at a normal dance.
The speed and complexity of squares makes visual signifiers too slow and
unhelpful; facing
Nick: Some good stuff in those links - thank you.
Donna: I love the idea of identifying your role by saying "boy" or "girl".
Thanks for the link to your web pages. I did try to look at your FB group
but got a "this content isn't available right now" error message.
Neal: I'm intrigued by the "not
y Child <jeremy.m.ch...@gmail.com>
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Subject: Re: [Callers] Boys and Girls
Thanks Donna.
How do the dancers know who's dancing boy and who girl? Sometimes they nee
any square.
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Thanks Rich.
Agreed, in the MSWD Community the terms are generally not a problem, but in
the same way that in the contra dance community they weren't a problem 20
years ago.
What is a problem is that whilst women can dance the boys role, for men to
dance the girls role is frowned upon unless the
Jeremy,
Perhaps this is a partially generational concern.
In the MWSD community today, there is much role swapping among dancers.
Most often ladies are dancing the gents' role. The terms boys and girls,
are roles much like ladies and gents in the contra scene. Although I call
fewer MWSD events
I imagine that the conversation must be much more complex in MWSD given the
tradition of patter. As I understand it, oftentimes the decision of which
term to label each role is determined by what might best rhyme with the
following call, or by how many syllables you have time to say.
While it's
Hi
This is for the MWSD callers amongst you.
There has been much discussion on this group about the terms used for the
two roles in contra dance. I do not propose to resurrect that here, I
mention it to emphasise that many feel the terms used to be important, and
that we should be moving away
