[Callers] Gate vs Hand Cast

[Mary Collins]

Don,

I too have called dances with a "hand cast" which essentially is a "gate".
I believe I heard/learned it somewhere along the line and once taught ppl
either go "i know this" "Oh! like a gate" or something similar.  I too had
an English dancer tell me there was no such thing as a hand cast....I like
the term myself. I vote use it, I will continue to do so.

Mary Collins
“Life is not about waiting for the storms to pass ... it's about learning
to dance in the rain!” ~ Unknown


On Mon, Oct 8, 2018 at 1:21 AM Don Veino via Callers <
callers at lists.sharedweight.net> wrote:

> You may have seen my "Feeling Gravity's Pull" which I posted at the end of
> the recent Mad Robin teaching thread.
>
> In that dance, there's a move where partners are facing in side by side on
> the outside of the set (where the Gents have forward momentum and the
> Ladies neutral to backward momentum) and my intent was for them to rotate
> around their inside hand connection with the Gents going forward and Ladies
> backing up once around. (As opposed to the Gent walks a circle around the
> Lady.) So the net effect would be like a courtesy turn, in going around a
> central point between the dancers, just a little "wider."
>
> I believe the correct term for this would be "Hand Cast" but I had a
> dancer who was adamant about it being a "Gate" in ECD so when I posted the
> dance that's the term I used. I've again done some googling and found no
> ready reference to a "Hand Cast" in ECD and only the slightest in a contra
> context, yet the term sticks in my mind.
>
> What say ye? Is "Hand Cast" a thing and correct in this context?
>
> Thanks,
> Don
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