12 Sep
2009
12 Sep
'09
10:02 p.m.
Bree --
I'm with you, and so is, eg "Heather and
Rose" in Oregon and "Triangle Country
Dancers" in North Carolina. But I think that train has probably left the
station on self-consciously gender-free contra dancing.
Actually, Triangle Country Dancers, primarily a contra
dance group, is not
gender-free. Sun Assembly, the English group in our area, is. That's where I
learned to dance and call English and it was strange the first time I danced
elsewhere and had to acclimate to "Ladies" and "Men." (Even though
I'd been
dancing and calling contras using gendered language.) I like the more relaxed
atmosphere of not needing to find a partner and no concern about gender
<balance.
Thanks for the correction. The one time I danced with y'all there, it was at a
CDSS Traveling Exec meeting-related special dance, and there were folks from
all the local groups, so I guess I got confused about who was which.
Sorry to mis-attribute.
-- Alan
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