[Callers] Wrist-Lock Stars

[Meg Dedolph via Callers]

Checking in from Chicago, where wrist-grip stars are the norm and
hands-across stars need to be specified .... When I started dancing, 14 or
15 years ago, in Michigan, many dancers reached for a hands-across star
first, though I don't see that so much anymore.
Meg

On Mon, Oct 10, 2016 at 12:00 PM Robert Livingston via Callers <
callers at lists.sharedweight.net> wrote:

> Millstone or  "windmill" - term I've seen used in print for older Canadian
> dances.
>
> Bob Livingston
>
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> *From:* Angela DeCarlis via Callers <callers at lists.sharedweight.net>
> *To:* Jacob or Nancy Bloom <jandnbloom at gmail.com>
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> *Sent:* Monday, October 10, 2016 12:45 PM
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> *Subject:* Re: [Callers] Wrist-Lock Stars
> I've never heard "millstone" or "mill" before, but it sounds like it has
> precedence. My guess is that it was (is?) a useful term at dances where
> hands-across stars are default. Since that isn't generally the case in many
> places any longer, it makes sense that "hands-across" has become the more
> useful modifier.
> On Oct 10, 2016 11:37 AM, "Jacob or Nancy Bloom via Callers" <
> callers at lists.sharedweight.net> wrote:
>
> When I attended the Berea Christmas Dance School forty years ago, and put
> my hand on the wrist in front of me during a walk through, someone
> complained, saying, "He said a star, not a mill!"
>
> Is the term "mill", or the term "millstone", commonly used to refer to
> wrist stars in areas where hands-across is the default way of doing a star?
>
> Jacob Bloom
>
> On Mon, Oct 10, 2016 at 10:29 AM, Jerome Grisanti via Callers <callers at lists.sharedweight.
> net <callers at lists.sharedweight.net>> wrote:
>
> I agree with Chet that Louisville's default star is hands-across, although
> weekend festivals in nearby cities tend toward the millstone star. I avoid
> the terms wrist-lock or even wrist-grip star, as I prefer the fingers to
> lay atop the adjoining wrist without using the thumb to "grip" in any way.
>
> The Midwest where I dance/call now is pretty solidly wrist-star territory
> (St. Louis, Columbia MO, Kansas City, Lawrence). When I call one-night
> events (parties, weddings), I dictate hands-across stars, but when calling
> for an established contra community I ask for the default.
>
> --Jerome
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> On Mon, Oct 10, 2016 at 3:31 AM, John Sweeney via Callers <callers at lists.sharedweight.ne
> t <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
> <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
>
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