<div dir="ltr">*applause*</div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Sun, Jan 29, 2017 at 9:37 PM, Jacob or Nancy Bloom 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"><div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_default" style="font-size:small">I'll echo this viewpoint. I value the opportunity to go different places and learn different ways of doing things. I feel that much more is lost in uniformity than is gained.</div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-size:small"><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-size:small">Jacob</div><span class=""><div class="gmail_default" style="font-size:small"><br></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Sun, Jan 29, 2017 at 9:03 PM, Chet Gray via Callers <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:callers@lists.sharedweight.net" target="_blank">callers@lists.sharedweight.<wbr>net</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr">In regards to the present variety in role terminology, I may be fairly alone in this opinion, but I hope we never intentionally arrive at a grand consensus.<br><br>I love that different terms for roles have sprung up in different communities, just as I love that so many wonderful terms have sprung up for eye-turn/shoulder-turn/spiral. I love hearing "allemande", "hand turn", and "hand 'round" in different communities. I love that "dosado" means drastically different things in different long-lived community ("square") dances. I love that some communities default to hands-across stars while others default to wrist-hold stars. I love that there are at least three different promenade positions, and each is default in different communities. As much as my engineer brain would enjoy it, I hope we never have a CALLERLAB to strictly define terminology and steps for contra dances.<br><div class="gmail_extra"><br clear="all"><div><div class="m_5692670259842645470m_-7912164918852038408m_-6831857958168604115gmail_signature" data-smartmail="gmail_signature"><div dir="ltr"><span style="font-size:12.8px">— Chet Gray</span><br style="font-size:12.8px"><div style="font-size:12.8px"><div style="font-size:small"> dance caller<br></div><div style="font-size:small"> Louisville, KY<br></div><div style="font-size:small"> <a href="tel:+1-502-419-7008" value="+15024197008" style="color:rgb(17,85,204)" target="_blank">(502) 419-7008</a></div></div></div></div></div>
<br><div class="gmail_quote">On Thu, Jan 26, 2017 at 11:42 AM, Donna Hunt via Callers <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:callers@lists.sharedweight.net" target="_blank">callers@lists.sharedweight.ne<wbr>t</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><font color="darkmagenta" size="3" face="Comic Sans MS, sans-serif">I'<font size="3">m sad to hear that so many groups are using different role terms and such a variety to boot. Not only do our beginners have to learn a brand new vocabulary (sometimes in a foreign language) and then remember the movement to go with those new words, but now they have to deal with remembering a role that there's no basis for, and that role term changes at different dance locations. Augh my head hurts just thinking about it.<br>
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