[Callers] A new(?) dance, written with a gyre

[Don Veino]

Tonight's mink hole dive uncovered this post - which was likely lost in the
passion of other threads circa the time... I found it unopened in my mail
queue but like what I see now.

Luke, what happened to this dance - has it been called successfully?

On Sat, Oct 31, 2015 at 10:33 AM, Luke Donforth via Callers <
callers at lists.sharedweight.net> wrote:

> Hello all,
>
> Linda Leslie's suggestion of gyre as a replacement for gypsy bubbled
> around in my brain and a new (I think) dance percolated up. It has a twist
> that isn't the gyre (which I consider just new nomenclature); women casting
> out of the swing to travel from one minor set to another (similar to gent's
> movement in Scoot by Tom Hinds).
>
> I haven't gotten to test it with dancers yet, as I just finished running
> it through with pegs on my desk; but I wanted to share it in support of a
> new term.
>
> A Gyre for Linda
> by Luke Donforth
> Contra/Becket-CCW
>
> A1 -----------
> (4) Pass through to an ocean wave (ladies left, catch right with partner)
> (4) Balance the short Wavy line
> (2) Walk forward
> (3) Shadow gyre right 1/2
> (3) Gents gyre left 1/2 in the middle
> A2 -----------
> (16) Neighbor gyre right and swing
> B1 -----------
> MEANWHILE FIGURE:
> (8) Men allemande Left 1-1/2 WHILE women cast cw around whole set one
> woman’s place
> (8) 1/2 Hey, passing partner by right shoulder
> B2 -----------
> (16) Partner gyre right and swing at home
>
>
> As for the other aspects that have been discussed:
> I pronounce it with a softer g sound. For reasons unclear to me, gyre has
> different accepted pronunciations; but (to my knowledge) gyration doesn't.
>
> As for using the term (which I clearly support); it costs me nearly
> nothing to switch and helps make the dance more accessible for some; both
> in dropping a term some find offensive and making the name more descriptive
> of the move. My job as a caller is to help share the joy of dancing, and if
> this does that I'm in favor of it.
>
> --
> Luke Donforth
> Luke.Donforth at gmail.com <Luke.Donev at gmail.com>
>
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