Hi, Jeremy, The Lavender Country and Folk Dancers (LCFD) use some positional references in their gender-free English Country Dances. Might want to check it out: http://lcfd.org/gf-ecd-calling-conventions.html
Looking forward to hearing more about this as others respond. On Thu, Jul 6, 2017 at 10:30 AM, Jeremy Child via Callers < callers@lists.sharedweight.net> wrote: > Hi Everyone > > In the past there has been a lot of discussion on this group about gender > free calling, and in particular about the terms used for the two roles. > > This got me thinking as to whether it would be possible to eliminate the > use of role names and call using just positional references. > > Some significant thought later, I came up with a system that I believe > could, in theory, work. This is largely an intellectual exercise rather > than a serious suggestion, but I would appreciate any comments / feedback / > thoughts / ideas you have. > > The details are at: http://barndancecaller.net/PositionalCalling.html > > (There is a link to another document I have written about gender free > calling - this is primarily aimed at English Barn Dance / Ceilidh calling.) > > Jeremy > > > _______________________________________________ > Callers mailing list > Callers@lists.sharedweight.net > http://lists.sharedweight.net/listinfo.cgi/callers-sharedweight.net > > -- *Mark Hillegonds* Cell: 734-756-8441 Email: mark.hillego...@gmail.com
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