14 Oct
2025
14 Oct
'25
7:57 a.m.
I also realized after I sent my message that you may have been asking about
mid-formation stuff, not lining up for a dance. My bad. I concur with
Julian that using landmarks in the hall works better than anything!
On Tue, Oct 14, 2025, 8:53 AM Julian Blechner via Contra Callers <
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I believe some ECD dance callers use "left
file" and "right file".
Even before Larks/Robins, contra dances I've been to where a dance needed
to indicate the lines often just picked landmarks for the walkthrough, and
then prompted the move without them, like "windows side arch, door side
dive through" for teaching, and "arch and dive" during prompting.
In dance,
Julian Blechner
he/him
Western Mass, USA
On Tue, Oct 14, 2025 at 6:55 AM Rich Goss via Contra Callers <
contracallers(a)lists.sharedweight.net> wrote:
I recently attended a ceilidgh in London. The
caller called Flying
Scotsman which is a longways set. They arranged it by the taller on the
left and designated them 2s. The shorter line 1s. Thought it was a
clever way to set it up. They would call something like “2s line arch, 1s
line lead through”. This may be common in th UK, but it was new to me (a
travelling US person)
As far as to say whether certain roll terms should or shouldn’t be used,
well…I’m not wading into that.
Rich
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On Oct 13, 2025, at 9:35 PM, Michael Fuerst via
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Before the rise to prominence of larks and robins, callers and dance
transcriptions would occasionally refer to the gents'/ladies' line as the
line in which gets/ladies would line up for a proper dance.
Should this now rarely used designation be
declared obsolete or
deprecated, or should we now occasionally refer to the
gents' and ladies'
lines
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