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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 id="yui_3_16_0_1_1453876251842_55271"><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 class="moz-cite-prefix">On 1/27/2016 7:03 AM, Michael Fuerst
via Callers wrote:<br>
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<div id="yui_3_16_0_1_1453876251842_54905"><span
id="yui_3_16_0_1_1453876251842_55057">Are you also
contemplating to abandon the awkward to say "California
Twirl"</span></div>
<div id="yui_3_16_0_1_1453876251842_54905"><span
id="yui_3_16_0_1_1453876251842_55271">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 class="signature" id="yui_3_16_0_1_1453876251842_54913">Michael
Fuerst 802 N Broadway Urbana IL 61801 217 239
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