Re: [Callers] Role term survey responses

On Mon, Feb 13, 2017, Neal Schlein via Callers wrote: > > I do not want to replace gent and lady as terms, based on my own experience. What I'd say is that what I want doesn't matter much. > Some context: I've been dancing for between 29 and 37 years, depending on > how you count--my parents met

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Neal, Can you clarify? Do you mean that you dance differently depending on which side you begin the dance on? How does your style change? Thanks, Alex On Thu, Feb 16, 2017 at 10:49 PM, Ron Blechner via Callers < callers@lists.sharedweight.net> wrote: > I have danced at a bunch of genderfree

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I have danced at a bunch of genderfree dances, as well as my home dance having a lot of people who dance both roles. I can't say I've ever had this "diet contra" experience. My home dance is widely known among musicians and callers as a lively crowd who brings good energy to performers. Proper

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I basically agree with Neal. I would not want to replace gents and ladies with other arbitrary terms. For many of the same reasons. Woody -- Woody Lane Caller, Percussive Dancer Roseburg, Oregon http://www.woodylanecaller.com home: 541-440-1926 cell: 541-556-0054

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I do not want to replace gent and lady as terms, based on my own experience. Some context: I've been dancing for between 29 and 37 years, depending on how you count--my parents met at a square dance and I grew up dancing. I started calling about 18 years ago, and dance/call ECD, Scottish,

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I’ve yet to personally encounter a request for terminology usage with which I can’t comfortably work. If an organizer(s) wants me to use “jets” and “rubies”, I’ll do it. Absent such a request, I usually state that my own use of the terms “gent” and “lady” has to do with choreography, not

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I occasionally teach but don’t call, so I don’t have cards—there are GF ECD callers on the list who may have more to add. First, a lot of ECDs are written without any reference to gender anyway—the dances often just work like that. An example of a conversion: Fried de Metz Herman’s The

Re: [Callers] Role term survey responses

> On Feb 13, 2017, at 10:30 AM, Aahz via Callers > wrote: > > On Mon, Feb 13, 2017, Read Weaver via Callers wrote: >> >> As far as I know, all of the ongoing gender-free English country >> dances use a different system, "global terminology." It's based on >>

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On Mon, Feb 13, 2017, Read Weaver via Callers wrote: > > As far as I know, all of the ongoing gender-free English country > dances use a different system, "global terminology." It's based on > current position rather than role, and so doesn't have to use a > substitute for gents/ladies. There are

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I danced email ECD to Jets/Rubies once, I belive at YDW 2014. On Feb 13, 2017 1:38 AM, "Read Weaver via Callers" < callers@lists.sharedweight.net> wrote: > As far as I know, all of the ongoing gender-free English country dances > use a different system, “global terminology.” It’s based on

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As far as I know, all of the ongoing gender-free English country dances use a different system, “global terminology.” It’s based on current position rather than role, and so doesn’t have to use a substitute for gents/ladies. There are a small number of dances for which it’s awkward, though I’ve

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This is very interesting information from the questions you posed. If I were going to use either, I would probably lean towards jets and rubies (though I have nothing against larks and ravens) for one main reason - In both French and Spanish (I'm not sure of any other language at this moment),

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Thanks Jeff for putting together this survey! This is all really interesting information. On Feb 12, 2017 9:03 AM, "Jeff Kaufman via Callers" < callers@lists.sharedweight.net> wrote: > As part of thinking about how whether non-gendered terms would work for > mainstream contra dances, I thought