2 Sep
2025
2 Sep
'25
5:40 p.m.
I've been a bit troubled for years by the call "roll away" (with or
without a half sashay). It's usually taught as though "roll" was an
active verb, something that one dancer, most often the lark, does to the
other dancer. Perhaps it would be more balanced if "roll" were treated
as an active verb, so the roll is something that the dancer making the
360 degree turn does with the assistance of the partner who does not spin.
-David
On 9/2/2025 11:40 AM, Jerome Grisanti via Contra Callers wrote:
I was chatting with a caller mentee about language
that gives one
dancer more agency than another, and how to make such choices more
neutral (i.e., all dancers should have agency).
For example, "larks/gents, raise your partners hand" to initiate a
California twirl. Rather, use "partners, raise your joined hands..."
What other examples have y'all heard in the wild of best (and worst)
practices?
Thanks!
— Jerome Grisanti
Jerome Grisanti
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"Whatever you do, or dream you can, begin it. Boldness has genius and
power and magic in it." --Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
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