[Callers] Gypsies

[Neal Schlein via Callers]

Like Ron, I use loop in other places, such as teaching a hey.

My big problem with "loop," however, is that it doesn't imply two things in
close proximity that are moving in mirror tandem--looping is a loose, outer
edge, expansive movement and word.  You loop around a stationary person
(cast off), you loop wide in a promenade, you loop around the end of a hey
(take time, don't rush it!), you bring the lady around a stationary gent in
a Cowboy Loop, or you loop to the left in a Grapevine Twist.  Someone who
is loopy is a little off-balance, crazy, being silly, or otherwise acting
in an out-of--the-ordinary manner.  For a figure, all of that implies an
outward-oriented and wide-based motion quite distinct from the Gypsy's
actual feel.

Unfortunately, I don't have another proposal at this time.  Mirror seems
applicable, but that's in use already.

I'd also like to throw another consideration into the ring.  Changing the
name and teaching methods can alter the dancer's perception, experience,
and execution of the figure.  Shakespeare posited that "a rose by any other
name would smell as sweet," but Juliet probably would not be very inclined
to buy, plant, and then sniff a "dung bush;" clearly his argument only goes
so far from a marketing perspective.   "Seesaw" is infinitely more fun than
a mere "left dosado," both to say and hear, and the contra Gypsy feels
different from the square dance walk around--even though they are arguably
the same exact move.

Neal


Neal Schlein
Youth Services Librarian, Mahomet Public Library


Currently reading: *The Different Girl* by Gordon Dahlquist
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On Sun, Oct 25, 2015 at 8:42 PM, Kalia Kliban via Callers <
callers at lists.sharedweight.net> wrote:

> On 10/25/2015 6:32 PM, Don Veino via Callers wrote:
>
>> At the risk of offering one more straw dog, there's "loop".
>>
>> "End that star [left] facing your next neighbor, loop right [around]
>> that neighbor and continue into a swing."
>>
>> "Two ladies loop left once and a half, _insert_call_here_ your partner."
>>
>> To my knowledge, it's free of call/cue homonyms, sounds short and
>> distinct and the other use in contra ("with your partner promenade
>> across and loop wide to the left to face a new couple..." is a similar
>> concept. No obvious negative meanings in common language (most are
>> positive, e.g.: "in the loop").
>>
>
> This is the best of the bunch so far, IMO.  And it's pleasantly short.
>
> Kalia
>
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