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<div class="moz-cite-prefix">On 10/29/15 2:45 AM, Jeff Kaufman via
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<p dir="ltr">On Oct 29, 2015 4:24 AM, "Erik Hoffman via Callers"
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> No Hand Allemande (and I do think Allemande comes
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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.)<br>
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-- Alan<br>
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