[Callers] Wrist-Lock Stars
Alan Winston via Callers
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Tue Oct 11 00:14:48 PDT 2016
go back far enough (1700s) and you get "moulinet" in French sources,
"mill" in some English sources,f or what I'm pretty sure are
hands-across stars.
-- Alan Winston
On 10/10/16 9:57 AM, Robert Livingston via Callers 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
> *Subject:* Re: [Callers] Wrist-Lock Stars
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> 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"
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>
> 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
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>
> 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
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>
> 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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