Hi Don,
Alan said most of it already.
You could potentially use any of Gate, Wheel, Wheel Around,
Assisted Cast, Hand Cast, Hand Cast Off, Turn as a Couple!
From Zesty Contras:
Hand Cast Off: Often shortened to “hand cast”, even though it is
Don,
I too have called dances with a "hand cast" which essentially is a "gate".
I believe I heard/learned it somewhere along the line and once taught ppl
either go "i know this" "Oh! like a gate" or something similar. I too had
an English dancer tell me there was no such thing as a hand
"Hand cast" is definitely a thing I've heard, but only in the context of a
couple down the middle and back and cast off (which was not at all unknown in
the 80s when I started contra dancing (though more a feature of chestnut
contras) , but hasn't turned up too much since. In contra, the
