5 Feb
2016
5 Feb
'16
10:03 p.m.
In ECD, someone (I believe it was Fried de Metz Herman) came up with a
figure called face en face, with a French pronunciation. Not sure why it
wasn't face à face. I describe it as the last two-thirds of a 1-1/2 dos à
dos.
On Fri, Feb 5, 2016 at 10:30 AM, Jonathan Sivier via Callers <
callers(a)lists.sharedweight.net> wrote:
I just had a thought for another possible
substitute if we need to
replace the term "gypsy". This would be "vis-a-vis" (face to face).
I
like this since it is in some sense similar to dos-a-dos (back to back) and
makes them complimentary figures. I think it suggests the importance of
facing the person you are dancing with, making eye contact, though not
necessarily staring, during the figure. Since many of the figure names in
country dance come from French words, sometimes corrupted by time and the
folk process, it seems reasonable to borrow another French term. I'm not
aware of this term already being used for some other dance figure, let me
know if it is. Even though it has 3 syllables instead of 2 I kind of like
the sound of "vis-a-vis and swing!"
Just putting it out there for your consideration.