Jim, thank you for testing this! It is precisely what I was trying to describe in my previous email--dances which are themselves gender-free both in their teaching and base pattern without need for term changes. They don't have to be custom-created (as I kind of suggested previously), but they do have to be carefully identified. Perhaps ECD has been more amenable to non-gendered choreography and instruction because many of its identifying terms are already non-gendered (1st corners, 2nd corners, opposite, partner, 1s, 2s) and a lot of the choreography is position-oriented rather than person-oriented. Just a hunch; I don't know of any generally used contra term corresponding to ECD's "1st/2nd corners" other than Gents and Ladies. As for comparable efforts, about a year ago I was at a barn dance where the first third of the night was squares and big sets with 0 gender reference. I had to leave at that point, so I don't know if the patterned continued, but it got me to thinking I could teach things the same way, Now I have a bunch of simple (and even slightly more complex) contras where the dancers can simply end facing their starting direction and everything works out. The more advanced ones I have used at regular dances. Neal​