Hi, Jeremy,

The Lavender Country and Folk Dancers (LCFD) use some positional references in their gender-free English Country Dances. Might want to check it out:  http://lcfd.org/gf-ecd-calling-conventions.html

Looking forward to hearing more about this as others respond. 

On Thu, Jul 6, 2017 at 10:30 AM, Jeremy Child via Callers <callers@lists.sharedweight.net> wrote:

Hi Everyone

In the past there has been a lot of discussion on this group about gender free calling, and in particular about the terms used for the two roles.

This got me thinking as to whether it would be possible to eliminate the use of role names and call using just positional references.

Some significant thought later, I came up with a system that I believe could, in theory, work.  This is largely an intellectual exercise rather than a serious suggestion, but I would appreciate any comments / feedback / thoughts / ideas you have.

The details are at: http://barndancecaller.net/PositionalCalling.html

(There is a link to another document I have written about gender free calling - this is primarily aimed at English Barn Dance / Ceilidh calling.)

Jeremy

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