New subject: [Callers] Opposite StarThru and functional difference in LD v Slide

25 Mar 2019

On Mar 21, 2019, at 2:29 PM, Rich Sbardella  wrote (in part):

...
  Many MWSD calls have left versions.  For example Pass
Thru (by right shoulder) and Left Pass thru (by left shoulder).  Swing Thru is another. 
Swing thru is turn half by the left, half by the right, but Left Swing Thru is turn half
but the left, then half by the right.  Left Square Thru is one that starts with the left
hand, BUT the dancers walk the exact same pattern as a normal, right handed square thru.

 In the case of a star thru and slide thru, I have never danced or called a Left Star Thru
or a Left Slide Thru.  ...  
The term "Left Star Thru" was indeed sometimes used in to refer to a varian of
Star Thru using the gent's right hand and lady's left.  That usage now appears to
be deprecated.  The reason, I presume, is that in contrast to calls like "Left Pass
Thru" or "Left Swing Thru," the call "Left Star Thru" exhibits
the historical bias of directing calls preferentially to the gents.

As an example, in the current version of the definition document for the CallerLab
Advanced program, the call "Double Star Thru" is defined as follows:

     From any appropriate formation (e.g. Normal Facing Couples):
     Those who can Star Thru. Those who can do the mirror image
     of a Star Thru (an arch is made with the man's left hand and
     the woman's right hand; the man goes around the arch while the
     lady goes under). In each part of the call, some dancers must
     be active. Normal facing couples will end as sashayed couples
     back-to-back.

I've seen versions of the document from c. 2000 that describe the second half of
Double Star Thru as a "Left Star Thru" (for those who can) rather than as
"the mirror image of a Star Thru."

--Jim

On Mar 24, 2019, at 3:53 PM, Andy Shore via Callers &lt;callers(a)lists.sharedweight.net&gt;
wrote (in part):

...
  Left Star Thru (edited slightly)
 From a boy facing a girl: boy holds left hand up and girl places her right palm against
it. boy steps forward and does a quarter left as the girl passes the boy left shoulders
under the raised arms and does a quarter right. Finishes as a couple.
 https://www.ceder.net/oldcalls/viewsingle.php?RecordId=3616 

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