On Tue, Dec 31, 2013, Andrea Nettleton wrote:
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> My club squares caller would have a cow if anyone danced a cross trail
> as anything but a pass thru and half sashay.
Finally! I was wondering if all the talk about turning meant that my
brane was b0rken, that's certainly the definition I remember
Scottish dance style _mandates_ taking a hand for diagonal crosses (as
in the cross of a half-figure eight or crossing down between the couple
below to go out around one more couple and meet at the bottom).
You don't put a lot of weight on it, and it doesn't have the pull of a
pull-by, but it'
well, uuhhh, darn,.. now I'm gonna think of tofu every time i call this one..
hee hee..
HAPPY NEW YEAR everybody!
bill
> Date: Tue, 31 Dec 2013 15:18:38 -0800
> From: wins...@slac.stanford.edu
> To: call...@sharedweight.net
> Subject: [Callers] Dances which work with a wide variety of tune typ
Gang --
I was going to put "Tofu Dances" in the subject line, but I thought that
might dissuade some of you from reading it.
I was thinking that tofu is a nutritious substance without a really
strong flavor of its own, and that can harmonize with a lot of different
treatments; it'll end up tas
Yes, "crosstrail" is simply a "pass thru" with the partners crossing trails...
to end up facing out of a square and back to back with the passed thru
couple. If the caller's next call is "U Turn Back" the 2 calls equal a
"Right & Left Thru".
But it was most commonly used by callers as a crosstr
I don't think a cross trail is an X, but I would say that there is still a
difference in foot path between a cross trail and a star through to pass
through and that is that unless explicitly told not to, dancers will do a pass
thru with the right shoulder, whereas a cross trail, as danced in con
