[Callers] Wrist-Lock Stars

Amy Wimmer via Callers callers at lists.sharedweight.net
Mon Oct 10 06:33:35 PDT 2016


The wrist lock is the common star formation in the Northwest, with a hands
across being the exception.
-Amy
Seattle

On Oct 10, 2016 5:37 AM, "Dave Casserly via Callers" <
callers at lists.sharedweight.net> wrote:

> Jeff Kaufman wrote a paper on regional variations in contra dance.  Here's what
> he found
> <https://www.swarthmore.edu/sites/default/files/assets/documents/linguistics/2007_kaufman_jeff.pdf>
> for wrist-grip stars (page 31 of the link).  Basically, they're common
> everywhere in the US except in some parts of the South.  This is based on
> data from ten or more years ago, so I'm not sure if that's still true.  I
> would not be surprised if it isn't-- there's enough cross-contamination
> that wrist-grips could have taken over even in the South.  We do have
> people from Georgia and North Carolina on the list; hopefully they'll chime
> in.
>
> -Dave
> Washington, DC
>
> On Mon, Oct 10, 2016 at 4:31 AM, John Sweeney via Callers <
> callers at lists.sharedweight.net> wrote:
>
>> Hi all,
>>         I have been to contra dances and festivals all over America and
>> everywhere I have danced everyone automatically uses a wrist-lock star
>> (unless the caller has specified hands-across because of the subsequent
>> choreography).
>>
>>         But I am constantly challenged in England by people claiming that
>> wrist-lock stars are not the standard in America.
>>
>>         When I go to somewhere like The Flurry and see 600 people from all
>> over the country all doing wrist-locks it seems to me that it must be the
>> standard way of doing things.
>>
>>         And obviously it has been common in America for a long time; this
>> video is from 1964 in Northern Vermont and shows wrist-lock stars:
>> https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pZubTju7g_s
>>
>>         So, are there still significant communities that don't use
>> wrist-locks?
>>
>>         Is the wrist-lock the de facto standard?
>>
>>         Thanks.
>>
>>             Happy dancing,
>>                    John
>>
>> John Sweeney, Dancer, England   john at modernjive.com 01233 625 362 & 07802
>> 940 574
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>>
>>
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