13 Oct
2018
13 Oct
'18
5:52 p.m.
Thanks for all the replies and details! I only have one of Larry's books,
mine (G&T if I recall correctly) has just a supplemental glossary.
I was stuck on the idea of a gate having a person serving as a post, now I
understand the definition has gone to a shared/equal move. Gate it is.
I don't have any examples at hand, but such a change in meaning/practice
(around a person - > around a pair's center) could impact the feeling of
prior choreography. I think I read something recently where an argument was
being made that modern folks approaching traditional material with current
move interpretation may be causing them to not flow as well as they did
with contemporary interpretation, negatively coloring dancer reception of
the material.
-Don
On Mon, Oct 8, 2018, 1:20 AM Don Veino <sharedweight_net(a)veino.com> wrote:
You may have seen my "Feeling Gravity's
Pull" which I posted at the end of
the recent Mad Robin teaching thread.
In that dance, there's a move where partners are facing in side by side on
the outside of the set (where the Gents have forward momentum and the
Ladies neutral to backward momentum) and my intent was for them to rotate
around their inside hand connection with the Gents going forward and Ladies
backing up once around. (As opposed to the Gent walks a circle around the
Lady.) So the net effect would be like a courtesy turn, in going around a
central point between the dancers, just a little "wider."
I believe the correct term for this would be "Hand Cast" but I had a
dancer who was adamant about it being a "Gate" in ECD so when I posted the
dance that's the term I used. I've again done some googling and found no
ready reference to a "Hand Cast" in ECD and only the slightest in a contra
context, yet the term sticks in my mind.
What say ye? Is "Hand Cast" a thing and correct in this context?
Thanks,
Don