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  • Contra Dance Handshakes

    September 5th, 2013
    calling, contra
    In contra dance you'll sometimes hear people talking about a handshake grip. Perhaps the caller says "shake hands with your neighbor, and pull on by" or "take right hands, you balance and box the gnat". Thing is, it's not a standard handshake:
    Full Handshake
    Finger Handshake
    This phrasing misleads new dancers without giving much help to experienced ones. In my calling I've switched to saying "take hands" where I would have said "shake hands".

    But now I'm curious: is there anywhere that people shake hands like this, with their fingers? Did people used to do full handshakes in contra? Finger handshakes outside of contra? Where did this come from?

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