15 Oct
2025
15 Oct
'25
2:30 a.m.
I never call proper dances, but why wouldn't you call them the Lark's line
and the Robin's line? Have them all face you, hold hands with your
partner and your free hand tells you your role.
On Mon, Oct 13, 2025, 22:35 Michael Fuerst via Contra Callers <
contracallers(a)lists.sharedweight.net> wrote:
Before the rise to prominence of larks and robins,
callers and dance
transcriptions would occasionally refer to the gents'/ladies' line as the
line in which gets/ladies would line up for a proper dance.
Should this now rarely used designation be declared obsolete or
deprecated, or should we now occasionally refer to the gents' and ladies'
lines
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