11 Sep
2009
11 Sep
'09
9:36 a.m.
Following up on Mark Galipeau's note:
In a workshop, it may be good to offer a little context on when
gender-role-swapping is appropriate (or inappropriate). For example, at most
dance weekends your neighbors will welcome or at least understand. At many
monthly dances, there are neighbors who may become confused either because
they are new, rigidly devoted to traditional gender roles, or any number of
other reasons. Some may even try to correct us (if they don't know us).
Before swapping, I look ahead in the line to be sure that our next neighbors
will be part of the "game" and not put off by it.
(Mark indicates the idea of there being a time and a place for this, I
merely offer an additional tip).
--Jerome
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Date: Wed, 9 Sep 2009 15:27:15 -0700 (PDT)
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If the group is alert, what my dance partners and I occasionally enjoy, is
memorizing both roles in the dance, then each iteration when there is a
swing your partner, we swap gender roles.
ie: first swing I lead, then the next time we come back to swing my partner
immediately takes the lead role and swings me.? Some dances are challenging
and if the grey matter is slow, or it is late in the evening this can really
snafu the line.
?
Chris Ricciotti has a great web resouce on Gender Free Contra on this web
site.
http://www.lcfd.org/Articles/GFManual/index.html
?
Mark Galipeau
Queer Contra Dancer
We swing both ways, and then some.
--
Jerome Grisanti
660-528-0858
http://www.jeromegrisanti.com
For the good are always the merry,
Save by an evil chance,
And the merry love the fiddle
And the merry love to dance. ~ William Butler Yeats