On Aug 23, 2012, at 1:27 PM, richg...@comcast.net wrote: > As David Millstone pointed out, the original "Yearn" figure was from George > Walker. It had the couples double progressing in long lines.
Thankfully yearn was changed to slice--Bob Isaacs was that you who came up with slice?--because the former sounded too much like urine. Really. I had dancers coming up and telling me that. When you call a yearn in Denmark they all laugh because it sounds like the name Jørn (spelling may be incorrect). While I may have slice written in my dance notes, I usually cue it as "On the left diagonal..", etc. The next anthropological question is, would dancers be able to execute a slice in a no-walk through medley; do they know the term? Lisa
