Pretty much any gay square dance group will at least be nonjudgmental about gender stuff. The IAGSDC (International Association of Gay Square Dance clubs) maintains a list: http://www.iagsdc.org/main/clubs/page/listclubs.php?order=region
For creative calling/dancing, you could look for a club that advertises itself as "APD/DBD dancing".
APD is all position dancing. Like the name says, you can do a call from any position, even if you're not in the "normal" spot for your role. hmm.. like let's say, Flutterwheel - The non-APD dancer would say, "The girls chain and grab the opposite guy to bring him back to her side", because the caller has never called it from sashayed couples. The APD person would think of it as "the person on the right of the couple".
DBD is "dance by definition", and means that the caller can call something from not-the-typical formation. It means really knowing the actual definition of the call, each part, and applying it. You don't know the calls I would use as an example, yet, and I am not sure if fractionalization counts as DBD, but examples of fractions you've already heard: Scoot Back once-and-a-half, or half-Zoom.
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on 2010-10-30 06:02 am (UTC)http://www.iagsdc.org/main/clubs/page/listclubs.php?order=region
For creative calling/dancing, you could look for a club that advertises itself as "APD/DBD dancing".
APD is all position dancing. Like the name says, you can do a call from any position, even if you're not in the "normal" spot for your role. hmm.. like let's say, Flutterwheel - The non-APD dancer would say, "The girls chain and grab the opposite guy to bring him back to her side", because the caller has never called it from sashayed couples. The APD person would think of it as "the person on the right of the couple".
DBD is "dance by definition", and means that the caller can call something from not-the-typical formation. It means really knowing the actual definition of the call, each part, and applying it. You don't know the calls I would use as an example, yet, and I am not sure if fractionalization counts as DBD, but examples of fractions you've already heard: Scoot Back once-and-a-half, or half-Zoom.