10 Oct
2019
10 Oct
'19
3:06 p.m.
Good point - I was just trying to respond to someone else’s desire for flirty-ness. With
family dances, I usually do a brief demo of the look-see, with someone familiar with the
move “locking eyeballs” and it gets a lot of laughs, as you say, and is successful.
"Right shoulder round" would off-putting for that crowd, I think. I find “right
hand turn” to be clearer than “allemenade right” for example. Simpler seems to be better
for new/one time dancers.
Maybe we don’t all need to use the same terminology?? Especially for weddings, school
dances, other places where they’re not as keen to learn something complex, but are more
keen just to get moving together, build community, and have fun?? I imagine that if they
have a good time, they might want to try it again some time, at which point they might
want to learn correct terms? Just my musings...
On Oct 10, 2019, at 9:01 AM, John Sweeney via Callers
<callers(a)lists.sharedweight.net> wrote:
Delia said, “especially with the family/community/ONS dances that are my mainstay. It’s
easy to call, emphasizes eye contact, flirty and fun like the original move.”
Please see http://contrafusion.co.uk/Gypsy.html
<http://contrafusion.co.uk/Gypsy.html>. The original move was not flirty and did
not involve eye contact :-)
For a family event with children present I don’t understand why anyone would want to
emphasise flirtation.
I teach the Gypsy (and use words such as “lock eyeballs”) at countless family events and
they don’t find it flirtatious; they find it hilarious.
Happy dancing,
John
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