Re: [Callers] Borrowing call terminology from modern square dancing

Bob - I'm bringing your comment back to your thread. I totally agree about the potential for overlap!! I do dance MSD, and I especially love "swing through" and have been slowly getting my contra caller friends to use the term. We teach it as "half allemande by the right, half allemande by the left. That's called a swing through.". Then, perhaps in the second walkthrough (yes, we still have those here) we might say "Swing through. That's half allemande by the right, half by the left." And during the dance, we'll say "Swing through. Half by the right, half by the left." Once everyone would do it whether we said anything or not, we might say, simply, "Swing through," just for the purpose of cementing the term with the move. I love it because it reminds me of Tarzan, swinging through the jungle on vines, half by the right, half by the left. What a guy. M E Bob Peterson bobp(a)contracorner.com via sharedweight.net 12:19 PM (2 minutes ago) to Caller's My point is not about novelty: I'm taking that as a given. I'm asking what people think about redefining a call that's well establish by modern squares. It's not even the hundreds of calls in the entire repertoire but calls from the Basic and Mainstream programs, the two simplest there are many which would be familiar to seasoned contra dancers. I am not lobbying for contra callers to learn modern squares but at least be aware of the overlap