<div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:verdana,sans-serif;font-size:small">For those interested in the historical derivation of our terms:</div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:verdana,sans-serif;font-size:small"><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:verdana,sans-serif;font-size:small">As Alan said, the Allemande was a couple dance from the late 1700s. In it, both hands were held, and the arms moved through various positions. This put the couple in much closer contact than they were in the minuet, in which the only physical contact was through hands held at arm's length. This makes the Allemande an important part of the transition of couple dancing from the minuet to the waltz.</div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:verdana,sans-serif;font-size:small"><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:verdana,sans-serif;font-size:small">The dance form known as Germans was shortened from German Cotillions. These were musical games which were popular in ballrooms in the 1800s.</div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:verdana,sans-serif;font-size:small"><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:verdana,sans-serif;font-size:small">Here's a link to an example of the Allemande being danced:</div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:verdana,sans-serif;font-size:small"><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style=""><font face="verdana, sans-serif"><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c3ay1kAK0YA">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c3ay1kAK0YA</a></font><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:verdana,sans-serif;font-size:small"><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:verdana,sans-serif;font-size:small">Jacob</div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Thu, Oct 29, 2015 at 6:00 AM, Alan Winston via Callers <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:callers@lists.sharedweight.net" target="_blank"><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:verdana,sans-serif;font-size:small;display:inline"></div>callers@lists.sharedweight.net</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left-width:1px;border-left-color:rgb(204,204,204);border-left-style:solid;padding-left:1ex">
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<p dir="ltr">On Oct 29, 2015 4:24 AM, "Erik Hoffman via Callers"
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<p dir="ltr">I wonder what we'll do if we discover that to some
Germans the French term "Allemande" is derogatory and they
prefer to be called "Deutsche".</p>
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Given that "allemande" is an incredibly-overloaded term in different
dance genres - it's a progressive figure for two or three couples in
Scottish dancing; it's a kind of 1700s couple dance; it's a
pretzel-armed turn in cotillions, it's a
not-100%-clearly-understood-thing-with-a-circular-track in
Regency-era longways dances, it's an elbow turn, it's a hand turn -
it wouldn't ruin my life if we started saying "hand turn" instead of
"allemande".<br>
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Just sayin'. (Although I would miss "allemande left with your left
hand, walk right in to a right and left grand" and the allemande
alphabet.)<span class=""><font color="#888888"><br>
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