30 Oct
2023
30 Oct
'23
5:19 a.m.
How do you feel, in a gender-neutral series, about leaving the decision of
larks/robins vs. positional to the caller, so long as it's declared and
publicized in advance? At least in some areas, there are not enough
positional callers to have an all-positional series.
Thanks,
--jh--
On Mon, Oct 30, 2023 at 12:32 AM Lisa Marie Lunt via Organizers <
organizers(a)lists.sharedweight.net> wrote:
I think it's important to listen to what Don Veino
just wrote. Don is both
a caller and organizer. It's not fair to put the responsibility for
choosing role names on the callers. It's the organizers' responsibility to
make decisions about our dances.
Lisa Lunt
She/her
Jamaica Plain (Boston) Gender Free Contra Dance
On Sun, Oct 29, 2023, 4:17 PM Don Veino via Organizers <
organizers(a)lists.sharedweight.net> wrote:
As a caller and organizer, this is a hot button
topic for me. Please, if
you are organizing a dance, take responsibility for this decision and make
it clearly public to your participants in advance. I understand you may be
uncomfortable making this choice and possibly want to "please everybody" by
leaving it to the caller but that just sets up the worst dynamic for all.
My take is that the dance's organizers *own* the culture and
implementation policies of their dance. If you would not leave it up to the
caller to decide to do swing dance instead or declare the admission is half
off for a given event, then you shouldn't leave such a topic to them either.
"Traditional", Larks/ Robins, positional - alternating per event,
whatever - make the determination and let the people coming know in advance.
I personally will no longer accept bookings from a dance that doesn't
have a stated role term policy. I will call with the terms stated (or
decline the event). I had a booking for a longstanding dance which changed
from decades of "Traditional" to "Caller's Choice" after booking
me, with
no heads up. I first heard of it when I started hearing from people
advocating for one or the other terms, as "my choice". The organizers
wouldn't make the call and the publicity was already out there. Bad scene
for all, not the way to set up dance joy.
On Sun, Oct 29, 2023, 1:28 PM Sandy Seiler via Organizers <
organizers(a)lists.sharedweight.net> wrote:
<snip>
Currently terminology is the caller's decision. So it goes back and
forth from gendered to non gendered. That is not mentioned on the website,
but I do know that at least one of our callers has requested that the
Lawrence board make a decision about it so the callers don't have that
responsibility and possible fall out from it.
</snip>
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