[Squaredancing] Square Dance Terminology

[Nasser Shukayr]

Your terminology page is VERY good.  Especially when you consider the
source. :-) :-)

Ignore sentence #2. :-)

I think Hoedown is one word.  I've seen it both ways but it's much
more common as one word.  Also, a second definition:  a "hoedown"
record is a patter record.

Pilot Square ... a caller is supposed to already know the effect of
each call.  So perhaps a better definition would be:

The square a caller watches to see who is dancing with whom.  The
caller uses this square to resolve.  (Some callers follow more than
one Pilot Square, in case their primary Pilot Square breaks down.)

"Quarterly" should say "Quarterly Selection".  Here's another
definition you can use:

Quarterly Selection (or Quarterly)

The Callerlab Quarterly Selection committee was disbanded in 2003.
Every three months the committee published a short list of calls.
These calls were chosen either from higher programs or from
experimental calls (i.e. calls not in any program).  Quarterly
Selections were published separately for Mainstream, Plus and
Advanced.  At any one time, a Quarterly Selection list could contain
from zero to three calls.  At the end of each quarter, the committee
would vote whether to keep or drop each Quarterly.  After a Quarterly
was kept for three quarters (nine months), the committee had to vote
on retire the call permanently as a quarterly, or whether to add it to
an existing square dance program.  It is by this review process that
new calls were published, evaluated, and perhaps eventually added to
an existing dance program.  In quarterly selection process was
replaced in 2004 with the Periodic Selection Committee, which
publishes optional workshop material (either a new call, or an
existing call used in a novel way).

Resolve  Calling so as to bring the dancers back to their respective
original partners.  The set can be resolved to a Left Allemande, R&L
Grand, Weave the Ring (rare), Wrong Way Grand, Promenade, Wrong Way
Promenade (rare), "You're Home", or "You've Stirred the Bucket".

Trienniel Review  (formerly Bienniel Review)

The Callerlab dance programs are reviewed every three years.  During
the Trienniel Review, each dance program committee (Mainstream, Plus,
Advanced, Challenge) votes on whether to add or remove any calls from
their program.  Mainstream votes first, followed a few months later by
Plus, then Advanced, then Challenge.  Up to three calls may be added
or removed from a program during a Triennial Review.  Any call removed
from a program is automatically added to the next higher program.  Of
course the program which receives the new call may vote to either keep
it or move it to the next higher program.  In this way the dance
programs evolve slowly over time.

Here are some new ones:

Accredited Caller Coach - a caller coach who has passed a rigorous set
of Callerlab tests and criteria designed to measure his/her
proficiency and experience in teaching other callers.

Bracket - a tip in Australia, but normally danced as a singing call, a
patter call, and another singing call.

Caller Coach - a caller who teaches other callers.