[Callers] Gypsy Synopsis

Alan Winston via Callers callers at lists.sharedweight.net
Thu Oct 29 03:00:03 PDT 2015



On 10/29/15 2:45 AM, Jeff Kaufman via Callers wrote:
>
> On Oct 29, 2015 4:24 AM, "Erik Hoffman via Callers" 
> <callers at lists.sharedweight.net 
> <mailto:callers at lists.sharedweight.net>> wrote:
> >
> >
> >         No Hand Allemande (and I do think Allemande comes from "The 
> German," a dance)
> >
>
> I wonder what we'll do if we discover that to some Germans the French 
> term "Allemande" is derogatory and they prefer to be called "Deutsche".
>
>
Given that "allemande" is an incredibly-overloaded term in different 
dance genres - it's a progressive figure for two or three couples in 
Scottish dancing; it's a kind of 1700s couple dance; it's a 
pretzel-armed turn in cotillions, it's a 
not-100%-clearly-understood-thing-with-a-circular-track in Regency-era 
longways dances, it's an elbow turn, it's a hand turn - it wouldn't ruin 
my life if we started saying "hand turn" instead of "allemande".

Just sayin'.   (Although I would miss "allemande left with your left 
hand, walk right in to a right and left grand" and the allemande alphabet.)

-- Alan

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