I just wanted to report in that I used “look-see” today with a group of K-8
elementary students and I thought it worked fabulously! They really understood
the point of the move much better than the random g-word, and it was so cute to
watch them intently and playfully gazing at each other as
My belief:
For the actual dance there is only one Leader: that is the caller.
All the dancers are Followers, following the caller’s Lead.
Any suggestion that one role has a leading responsibility is misleading and
does disservice to all the dancers in the other role.
Historically
My complaint originates with the "daily summary" email as read on my phone.
I find that if I got to the list archives website, it is much easier to
read and comprehend.
KP
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Please cancel my subscription to the caller's LISTSERV.
Thanks
Walter Daves
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I also use "face-to-face", which I learned from Eric. I've heard Steve Z-A
and Lisa G switch to these terms, at least where I've heard them call.
I also use "right shoulder round" when it's a multi-caller event and that's
what people like. We agreed to this for Flurry Festival last month, and it
Thanks, Jack.
I think we, as callers, ought to acknowledge there are 2 camps of dancers,
believing either:
1. Gents/Larks role is implicitly "led", and ladies/Ravens role is
implicitly "follow" (along with all of the good comments about consent,
such as Maia's)
2. Contra is implicitly not
This morning I received an update to this list that was entirely
unintelligible. Not because it was long, or that it had several replies on
a topic (substitute terms for gypsy) but because the submissions were made
without removing all that had gone before.
It was one long mass of words which I
