9 Aug
2018
9 Aug
'18
9:50 p.m.
Chris —
Figure out which dances you want to call. There’s a ton of good barn dancers where it’s
“top couple” and “everybody else”; it’s easy to just call that. If you need to refer to
the people in one line vs the people in the other line, choose a landmark in the hall -
“the clock line” or “the porch line”. Use “they/their” for any gender reference. “Top
couple gallop to the bottom. Top hillside leaves their partner there and, taking bottom
porches hands, gallops to the top.”
For circle mixers and stuff, you can have partners face each other and identify who is now
facing counterclockwise/anticlockwise and who is facing clockwise and make sure that they
stay that way.
There’s also “Larks and Ravens” with Larks standing on the left and Ravens standing on the
right, but I think this is optimized for duple improper contras and is not so helpful with
English where you often have all the gents one side, ladies the other.
— Alan
On Aug 9, 2018, at 2:27 PM, Chris J Brady
chrisjbrady(a)yahoo.com [trad-dance-callers] <trad-dance-callers(a)yahoogroups.com>
wrote:
We have been offered a Barn Dance / ONS gig for a somewhat large LGBTI community in the
UK. This will be at a Queer Festival. However we are well aware of the issues of the use
or misuse of pronouns especially for those folk undergoing transition. What terminologies
do folks here advise? Participants would be non-binary genders. Partners could be the same
gender or of a different gender. The concept of 'male' or 'female' would
not apply; and certainly not the terms 'men' and 'women.' Thanks - CJB
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Posted by: Chris J Brady <chrisjbrady(a)yahoo.com>
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