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
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
On Sat, Sep 24, 2016 at 4:34 PM, Alan Winston via Callers <
callers@lists.sharedweight.net> wrote:
> If you call it tonight, I suspect some dancers will have some trouble with
> the circle left all the way around the second and subsequent times
> through.
>
> But let us know how it goes!
>
I
The Barraclough and Goldman experiences with the dance already have
belied my suspicion, but what I was thinking was that the extremely
common use of "circle left 3/4 and swing on the side" was going to
interfere with "Circle left all the way and swing on the side", and that
we might see a
