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".On Oct 29, 2015 4:24 AM, "Erik Hoffman via Callers" <callers@lists.sharedweight.net> wrote:
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> No Hand Allemande (and I do think Allemande comes from "The German," a dance)
>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".