Re: [Callers] Gender Swapping

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. --- On Wed, 9/9/09, Jerome Grisanti <jerome.grisanti(a)gmail.com> wrote: From: Jerome Grisanti <jerome.grisanti(a)gmail.com> Subject: [Callers] Gender Swapping To: callers(a)sharedweight.net Date: Wednesday, September 9, 2009, 2:27 PM Barbara, The two things that are most confusing when changing genders are the chain and the swing. For the chain, you might review courtesy turn and also the twirl. Make sure twirlers know their hand should be directly over the head of the twirlee, and their hand should remain open (not gripping). When I mentioned to one group that the twirler's hand should remain open, a roar of women's voices said "Yes!" and I just added, "gentlemen, the twirlees have spoken..." --Jerome _______________________________________________ Callers mailing list Callers(a)sharedweight.net http://www.sharedweight.net/mailman/listinfo/callers