23 Nov
2012
23 Nov
'12
9:30 p.m.
I never use the term Petronella for that move. It's always "spin to the
right" or twirl to the right" For me. Petronella is the name of a Chestnut that
the move comes from as most all of you know. Callers used to say "as in the dance
Peronella..." but through the evolutionary process is no longer mentioned. The move
has taken on the name of the dance. That said, if's my personal preference not to
use that name for the move. It does bug me a little when other callers use it as the name
for the move, but not enough to say anything or lose any sleep over it.
Rich
On Fri, Nov 23, 2012 at 3:10 PM, Maia McCormick <maia.mcc(a)gmail.com> wrote:
> So I had my first introduction to contradance through my school, taught by
> student callers who had been taught by student callers before them, etc. I
> was first taught to call a Petronella as... a Petronella. And then as I
> started going to more outside dances and started reading up on the practice
> of calling, I heard the move more and more just called as "balance the ring
> and spin to the right" or "balance the ring and spin to swap."
>
> So, esteemed caller-folk, I ask you: how do* you* call a Petronella Turn?
> By name, or with some other turn of phrase? Do you have any sense how
> widespread either of these conventions are? Why not just call a Petronella
> a Petronella? If you call it by description rather than by name, do you
> generally put the entire call together (e.g. "BALance the RING and SPIN to
> the RIGHT") or break it up ("BALance the RING... and SPIN to the
RIGHT" so
> that "spin to the right" ends up coming on beats 3 & 4, just before
the
> actual spinning occurs)? Any thoughts are welcome!
>
> Cheers,
> Maia
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