<div dir="ltr">Erik,<div>I have heard Frontier Whirl as a California Twirl, but never Frontier Twirl? Are you sure? (Maybe I am mistaken.)</div><div>Rich Sbardella</div><div>Stafford, CT</div></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Wed, Jan 27, 2016 at 12:26 PM, Erik Hoffman via Callers <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:callers@lists.sharedweight.net" target="_blank">callers@lists.sharedweight.net</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">
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What Michael Fuerst said at a readable size (It's still coming
through to me in some microscopic font):<br>
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> Are you also contemplating to abandon the awkward to say
"California<br>
> Twirl"</span><span><br>
> If you use your gypsy alternative for new dancers, will you
advise them<br>
> of all the synonyms being conjured ?</span></div>
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Aha! A whole new topic. Well, actually old. Larry Edelman, one of my
favorite dance callers, and someone I feel lucky to have spent time
with, and from whom I have learned so much, use to complain about
"California Twirl." I don't recall his reasons, but he always called
it a "Frontier Twirl," which I think he got from old square dance
books. <br>
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I've been using "right shoulder turn," and "left shoulder turn," and
mentioning that there's been a discussion on the use of the word
Gypsy. Then again, somewhere around sixty percent of the time I tend
to call a "right hand turn," instead of "allemande right," as it's
more descriptive. <br>
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This, in some ways, gives another reason for using different words:
the use of descriptive calls. Thus abandoning a non-descriptive call
for one that is more readily interpreted by all dancers has other
benefits than just abandoning a word that some--or all--find
pejorative .<br>
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~erik hoffman<br>
oakland, ca<br>
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<div>On 1/27/2016 7:03 AM, Michael Fuerst
via Callers wrote:<br>
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<div><span>Are you also
contemplating to abandon the awkward to say "California
Twirl"</span></div>
<div><span>If you use your gypsy
alternative for new dancers, will you advise them of all the
synonyms being conjured ?</span></div>
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<div>Michael
Fuerst 802 N Broadway Urbana IL 61801 217 239
5844</div>
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