I occasionally teach but don’t call, so I don’t have cards—there are GF ECD callers on the list who may have more to add.
First, a lot of ECDs are written without any reference to gender anyway—the dances often just work like that. An example of a conversion: Fried de Metz Herman’s The Archbishop (a 4-couple set dance) begins First man and fourth woman cast L one place which becomes Long first diagonals cast L one place Three words instead of five, it references a twosome rather than two individuals, and places them in a context, better (I’d argue) showing the pattern of the whole dance. And imagine calling using the original version. (btw, I’m looking at someone else’s description of the dance—I don’t know how Fried wrote it. But someone is describing it the first way.) Read Weaver Jamaica Plain, MA http://lcfd.org > On Feb 13, 2017, at 10:30 AM, Aahz via Callers > <callers@lists.sharedweight.net> wrote: > > On Mon, Feb 13, 2017, Read Weaver via Callers wrote: >> >> As far as I know, all of the ongoing gender-free English country >> dances use a different system, "global terminology." It's based on >> current position rather than role, and so doesn't have to use a >> substitute for gents/ladies. There are a small number of dances for >> which it's awkward, though I've had callers present me with something >> they couldn't figure out the global terminology for and I've usually >> been able to, usually resulting in easier teaching and calling than >> the gendered version. There was one ongoing contra dance decades ago >> that used a similar system. > > You have any examples? Both the original and the converted version? > -- > Hugs and backrubs -- I break Rule 6 http://rule6.info/ > <*> <*> <*> > Help a hearing-impaired person: http://rule6.info/hearing.html > _______________________________________________ > Callers mailing list > Callers@lists.sharedweight.net > http://lists.sharedweight.net/listinfo.cgi/callers-sharedweight.net
