7 Jul
2013
7 Jul
'13
6:25 a.m.
A year or two ago I was at a dance where Rhodri Davies called some squares with Allemande
Alphabet figures, of the form:
Allemande (corner) left to an Allemande X: Pass your partner and swing the next.
Allemande left to an Allemande R (appears in MWSD as Allemande Thar): chain right then
left to a back-up star.
Where can I find more of these? Were there well-agreed uses of each letter, or did the
caller just make up something that rhymed as well as being danceable?
Edmund Croft,
Cambridge, UK