Hi,
Saw this dance on-line (it’s the video that is on the GoFundMe page for the
Dayton, VA dance) and I like the dance.
Does anyone know the title, author and author's choreography of the dance? I
can work out the choreography but would like to see how the author describes
the B1 and B2 of th
Here's another contribution to the Dublin Bay collection, hopefully
fulfilling the criteria below:
Liffey Outflow
Formation: Becket formation
Music: 32 bar reels
Source: Keith Wood Jan 2017
Notes: Following online discussions about the Dublin Bay movement I
decided to create a dance tha
On Fri, Jan 27, 2017 at 1:44 PM, Ron Blechner wrote:
>
> If that's the case, one would assume there are also plenty of traditional
> venue dancers who don't care either way. To that effect, genderfree roles
> are not as scary as some have claimed.
Sure, I think that's probably true. But I think
Hi Jeff,
Some points:
"You're classifying everyone who attends a dance with gender-free
calling as having wanting it to be gender free, but I'm sure some are
attending in spite of it being gender free, and many more don't care
either way."
If that's the case, one would assume there are also plen
Hey Ron et al,
I did not say anything about communities' right to use whatever terms they
want. Every community should of course do as it wishes, as long as the whole
community actually discusses it and has a say. I have called gender free, and
would again. I was booked to call Hampshire when
On Fri, Jan 27, 2017 at 11:40 AM, Ron Blechner via Callers
wrote:
> To answer your question, though, about how many dancers want genderfree
> terms, at least ten dances are genderfree, and I bet we can poll those
> dances and find out how many active dancers they have. While the Western
> Mass one
Yes, I’ve been trying to replace the G word with spiral and dancers find it
confusing and are not happy about it. Others have tried other words and as far
as I can tell the reception is the same.
Martha
> On Jan 27, 2017, at 12:08 AM, Jim Hemphill via Callers
> wrote:
>
> You can teach and ca
Typos:
30, not 39.
Calls, not callers (paragraph 3)
On Jan 27, 2017 11:37 AM, "Ron Blechner" wrote:
Hi Andrea,
I think Angela was well-spoken and polite.
This discussion, like ones before it, was started not about endorsing new
terms for all contras. It started discussing terms for communit
Hi Andrea,
I think Angela was well-spoken and polite.
This discussion, like ones before it, was started not about endorsing new
terms for all contras. It started discussing terms for communities who *do*
want alternative role terms.
Who are we to tell a community that their need for their dancer
Really Angela? Huge numbers are offended by "gents/ladies"? I'll happily call
with whatever the community uses, though I may avoid a community using
lead/follow as I think it perniciously encourages passivity in half the
dancers, which I object to. And I was vocal in earlier discussions about
For what it's worth, "Larks" and "Ravens" were terms designed to correlate
with "Left" and "Right".
There are plenty of moves we do in contra with names that have nothing to
do with anything. Like "Swat the Flea," or even "Chain". Head over to
Square Dancing, and the vernacular is so huge that ple
I've been meaning to answer but since it doesn't quite fit your spreadsheet
I'll just write it here.
ContraMontreal has two dance series. Our "Big Dances" rely on guest callers
and since the contract (I believe) doesn't say anything about role names
they default to Gents/Ladies.
But we also have a
Thanks everyone! The data I collected is in:
https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1UXXbER6N07iiA6Wjc2O6LzZ2i53kDhvJLtzoA-7Oj3g/edit#gid=0
And I wrote this up as:
http://www.jefftk.com/p/gender-free-role-term-usage
On Thu, Jan 26, 2017 at 3:55 PM, Jeremy Gmail wrote:
> It’s a one off
On 1/27/17 12:08 AM, Jim Hemphill via Callers wrote:
You can teach and call contra dances positionally without hurting
anyones feelings. We are all human beings, I find it objectionable to
be referred to as some form of rock or bird or whatever.
The role a dancer chooses is really defined by
You can teach and call contra dances positionally without hurting anyones
feelings. We are all human beings, I find it objectionable to be referred
to as some form of rock or bird or whatever.
The role a dancer chooses is really defined by which side of their
partnership they choose to start the d
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