Flutterby™! : Contra Syncretist

So Charlene and I were digging through the underbelly of the web last night looking for some square dancing stuff, and we discovered a few things. The most interesting of which seems to be that "Gay Square Dancing (Wikipedia)" is a split of square dancing that, within the genre or at least here on the west coast isn't necessarily labeled as such, but in the eastern U.S. is seen as a division of the form that has become distinct enough, and with enough heterosexual participants, that "gay" has just become a label for it, and not necessarily attached to sexual orientation.

It's not just bears and leather and drag. Which explains a lot about the culture we're seeing, and why when I mentioned square dancing previously on Flutterby, Meuon and I saw it so differently.

But we were looking for flourishes and stylings, and stumbled across the Contra Syncretist YouTube feed, a lot of detail work from contra dancing that could be equally applicable to square dance.

Although with a number of these moves I commented "and here's the part where she gets dizzy and pukes on your shoes", because there's an awful lot of spinning there.

Bonus: Meosis Square Dance, an educational video that... well... the uploader notes:

"If you have watched to this point you deserve a f***ing medal or some s**t like that"