<html><body><div style="color:#000; background-color:#fff; font-family:garamond, new york, times, serif;font-size:16px"><div id="yui_3_16_0_1_1434357886194_239122" dir="ltr">This past weekend I attended the Dance Trance weekend in Lexington KY, with Sue Rosen calling.</div><div id="yui_3_16_0_1_1434357886194_239122" dir="ltr">She managed to teach all the dances using basic terms to describe all the "odd calls"</div><div id="yui_3_16_0_1_1434357886194_239122" dir="ltr">As long as an odd call is explained, a caller can announce a term (even if somewhat standardized) to be used for the duration of the dance.</div><div id="yui_3_16_0_1_1434357886194_239122" dir="ltr">It might be helpful to accumulate a list "odd calls" that are becoming common, so that callers can ponder them and consider their own more basic ways to describe them.</div><div id="yui_3_16_0_1_1434357886194_239122" dir="ltr"><br></div><div id="yui_3_16_0_1_1434357886194_239122" dir="ltr">To me one of the more challenging to describe succinctly is "ricochet heys" </div><div id="yui_3_16_0_1_1434357886194_239122" dir="ltr"> <br></div><div class="signature" id="yui_3_16_0_1_1434357886194_239251">Michael Fuerst 802 N Broadway Urbana IL 61801 217 239 5844</div> <br><div class="qtdSeparateBR"><br><br></div><div class="yahoo_quoted" style="display: block;"> <div style="font-family: garamond, new york, times, serif; font-size: 16px;"> <div style="font-family: HelveticaNeue, Helvetica Neue, Helvetica, Arial, Lucida Grande, sans-serif; font-size: 16px;"> <div dir="ltr"> <font size="2" face="Arial"> On Monday, June 15, 2015 11:26 AM, susanelberger via Callers <callers@lists.sharedweight.net> wrote:<br> </font> </div> <br><br> <div class="y_msg_container"><div id="yiv4539397981"><div><div style="color:#000;background-color:#fff;font-family:HelveticaNeue, Helvetica Neue, Helvetica, Arial, Lucida Grande, sans-serif;font-size:16px;"><div dir="ltr" id="yiv4539397981yui_3_16_0_1_1434383572768_25649"><span id="yiv4539397981yui_3_16_0_1_1434383572768_25648">It seems that we have already gone pretty far down that path. Every time I look at dance with odd calls, "slice and dice" being one recently posted, along with the various place name twirls, it troubles me deeply. I have to remember that one of the joys of contra dancing compared to MWSD is that, at least theoretically, anyone can walk in off the street and dance. The more we create esoteric names for calls the less possible that becomes.</span></div><div id="yiv4539397981yui_3_16_0_1_1434383572768_26376" dir="ltr"><br><span id="yiv4539397981yui_3_16_0_1_1434383572768_25648"></span></div><div dir="ltr"><span id="yiv4539397981yui_3_16_0_1_1434383572768_25648">Susan Elberger</span></div><div dir="ltr"><span id="yiv4539397981yui_3_16_0_1_1434383572768_25648">Lowell, MA</span></div> <div id="yiv4539397981yui_3_16_0_1_1434383572768_26267" style="font-family:HelveticaNeue, Helvetica Neue, Helvetica, Arial, Lucida Grande, sans-serif;font-size:16px;"> <div id="yiv4539397981yui_3_16_0_1_1434383572768_26266" style="font-family:HelveticaNeue, Helvetica Neue, Helvetica, Arial, Lucida Grande, sans-serif;font-size:16px;"> <div id="yiv4539397981yui_3_16_0_1_1434383572768_26300" dir="ltr"> <hr id="yiv4539397981yui_3_16_0_1_1434383572768_26350" size="1"> <font id="yiv4539397981yui_3_16_0_1_1434383572768_26299" face="Arial" size="2"> <b><span style="font-weight:bold;">From:</span></b> Neal Schlein via Callers <callers@lists.sharedweight.net><br> <b><span style="font-weight:bold;">To:</span></b> callers@sharedweight.net <br> <b><span style="font-weight:bold;">Sent:</span></b> Sunday, June 14, 2015 12:03 PM<br> <b><span style="font-weight:bold;">Subject:</span></b> Re: [Callers] Box - Swat - CA - Jersey/Nevada<br> </font> </div> <div id="yiv4539397981yui_3_16_0_1_1434383572768_26265" class="yiv4539397981y_msg_container"><br><div id="yiv4539397981"><div id="yiv4539397981yui_3_16_0_1_1434383572768_26264"><div id="yiv4539397981yui_3_16_0_1_1434383572768_26263"><br></div><div id="yiv4539397981yui_3_16_0_1_1434383572768_26296">Sorry! I finished that email in a hurry and meant to say what Aahz noted: slide thru is not actually gender neutral; it simply can be done by two people dancing the same role, with the results of a curlique.</div><div id="yiv4539397981yui_3_16_0_1_1434383572768_26379"><br></div><div>I really wouldn't encourage folks to use all of the square dance figures and terms, tough. Down that path lies CallerLab. While I enjoy MWSD myself, it is too complex to be readily accessible and I am afraid contra is heading that way already.</div><div>Neal</div><div><div style="font-size:9px;color:#575757;">Sent from my T-Mobile 4G LTE Device</div></div></div></div><br>_______________________________________________<br>Callers mailing list<br><a rel="nofollow" ymailto="mailto:Callers@lists.sharedweight.net" target="_blank" href="mailto:Callers@lists.sharedweight.net">Callers@lists.sharedweight.net</a><br><a rel="nofollow" target="_blank" href="http://lists.sharedweight.net/listinfo.cgi/callers-sharedweight.net">http://lists.sharedweight.net/listinfo.cgi/callers-sharedweight.net</a><br><br><br></div> </div> </div> </div></div></div><br>_______________________________________________<br>Callers mailing list<br><a ymailto="mailto:Callers@lists.sharedweight.net" href="mailto:Callers@lists.sharedweight.net">Callers@lists.sharedweight.net</a><br><a href="http://lists.sharedweight.net/listinfo.cgi/callers-sharedweight.net" target="_blank">http://lists.sharedweight.net/listinfo.cgi/callers-sharedweight.net</a><br><br><br></div> </div> </div> </div></div></body></html>