23 Aug
2012
23 Aug
'12
10:57 a.m.
On Aug 23, 2012, at 1:27 PM, richgoss(a)comcast.net wrote:
As David Millstone pointed out, the original
"Yearn" figure was from George Walker. It had the couples double progressing in
long lines.
Thankfully yearn was changed to slice--Bob Isaacs was that you who came up with
slice?--because the former sounded too much like urine. Really. I had dancers coming up
and telling me that. When you call a yearn in Denmark they all laugh because it sounds
like the name Jørn (spelling may be incorrect).
While I may have slice written in my dance notes, I usually cue it as "On the left
diagonal..", etc.
The next anthropological question is, would dancers be able to execute a slice in a
no-walk through medley; do they know the term?
Lisa