I'd appreciate some clarification about several relatively new terms in the contra
dance world.
In her description of Fruit Punch, Joy wrote:
A1 With couple on L diagonal, Yearn to new Neighbors and fall straight back (8)
My understanding was that "yearn" means moving on the left diagonal toward one
set of dancers, and then back from there on the left diagonal so that a couple
has moved two places. If I understand Fruit Punch, the couple has only moved one
place, forward on the left diagonal and then straight back. I've heard Bob Isaacs
and others refer to that move as "slice" left but I don't know if that's common
usage.
"Yearn" was created by Seattle choreographer George Walker in his dance "A Quarter
More/"
http://www.quiteapair.us/calling/acdol/dance/acd_121.html
David Millstone
Lebanon, NH
