<html><head><meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"></head><body dir="auto"><div>Andy, I'm not sure that the action 'face your corner' necessitates making or keeping eye contact. It is heard by many, in my experience, merely as the instruction which gets your body facing around the ring so you are interacting with your corner, not at all as an injunction to look into their face. That I interpret it that way seems to be an artifact of my contra background.</div><div id="AppleMailSignature">Best,</div><div id="AppleMailSignature">Andrea</div><div id="AppleMailSignature"><br>Sent from my iOnlypretendtomultitask</div><div><br>On Jan 27, 2016, at 5:32 PM, Andy Shore via Callers <<a href="mailto:callers@lists.sharedweight.net">callers@lists.sharedweight.net</a>> wrote:<br><br></div><blockquote type="cite"><div><div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_extra"><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Wed, Jan 27, 2016 at 11:51 AM, Jeremy Gmail 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:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left-width:1px;border-left-color:rgb(204,204,204);border-left-style:solid;padding-left:1ex"><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif;color:rgb(31,73,125)">In MWSD, walk around (your corner) is effectively a “without hands” Right Hand Turn – it specifically does not have the “look at the other person” aspect.<u></u><u></u></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif;color:rgb(31,73,125)"><br>This is not in itself a reason for not using the phrase, but avoiding confusion with closely allied dance forms that share dancers is probably a good idea.<u></u><u></u></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif;color:rgb(31,73,125)"><u></u> <u></u></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif;color:rgb(31,73,125)">Jeremy</span></p></blockquote></div><br><br>This is not correct. Current CALLERLAB definitions include styling that includes "eye contact"</div><div class="gmail_extra"><br></div><div class="gmail_extra">From the current CALLERLAB Basic/Mainstream definitions (revised May 31, 2013) available for download at <a href="http://callerlab.org">callerlab.org</a>:</div><div class="gmail_extra">[my emphasis added with underlining]</div><div class="gmail_extra"><br></div><div class="gmail_extra"><blockquote style="margin:0px 0px 0px 40px;border:none;padding:0px"><div class="gmail_extra"><br></div><b>26. Walk Around the Corner</b><br> <i>Starting formations:</i> Squared Set, Infacing Circle Of 8<br> <i>Command examples:<br></i> Walk Around the Corner<br> Walk All Around Your Corner<br> 4 Ladies Chain; Circle Left; Walk Around New Corner<br>All Around the Left Hand Lady<br> Walk All Around the Left Hand Lady; See Saw the Pretty Little Taw<br> <br><i>Dance action: </i>Dancers face their corners. <u>Walking forward and around each other while keeping right shoulders adjacent,</u> dancers return to their original position, with their backs toward their corner. [underlining mine]<br> <br><i>Ending formation: </i>Right and Left Grand Circle<br> <br><i>Timing:</i> 8<br> <br><i>Styling:</i> Men hold arms in natural dance position. Women use both hands on skirt, moving skirt forward and back to avoid opposite dancer. <u>Dancers should maintain eye contact over their shoulders until their partners become visible.</u> [underlining mine]<br> <br><i>Comment: </i>Square dancing is evolving towards a preference for "Walk Around the Corner" instead of "All Around The Left-Hand Lady", which requires the women to mentally translate the command to "All Around The Right-Hand Man". </blockquote></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br></div><div class="gmail_extra">While I'm not suggesting we adopt the MWSD nomenclature (in particular, the left-shoulder version is called "See Saw" in current MWSD which is something different in current contra), I do want to point out that the dance action is exactly what we desire for a right-shoulder gy--y. The only difference is that MWSD it is essentially restricted to exactly 1x around, and in contra gy--y is 'as far as directed'.</div><div class="gmail_extra"><br></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br></div><div class="gmail_extra">-- <br><div>/Andy Shore</div><div>Santa Cruz, CA<br><a href="http://andyshore.com/" target="_blank">http://andyshore.com/</a><br><br><br></div>
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