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Bill Ohse 4 - Grand Reel and Chase Your Dear
West Virginia caller Bill Ohse, recorded at the Dare To Be Square weekend in Riner, VA, on May 5, 2012. Here he is teaching two figures that he'll be calling. They can be seen in the "Swing in the Rear" video, #5 in this series. There are six clips…
Bill Ohse 3 - Mix of figures
West Virginia caller Bill Ohse, recorded at the Dare To Be Square weekend in Riner, VA, on May 5, 2012. Here, he calls a different figure for each active couple in turn; there was no walkthrough. As he says, "Now, if I call something that you don't…
Winfield P. Niblo
Photographs of Winfield P. Niblo, widely credited with bringing American square dance to Japan after World War II. In one photo he can be seen calling with cupped hands; there simply was no PA system available to use.
Traditional Western Square Dances 2b - Chain 2 Ladies, Chain 3 Ladies
(This clip shows the actual dance; a separate video shows the walkthrough.)
Bill Litchman taught this dance as part of his session (November 19, 2011) on Traditional Western Squares at the Dare To Be Square Weekend, John C. Campbell Folk School,…
Bill Litchman taught this dance as part of his session (November 19, 2011) on Traditional Western Squares at the Dare To Be Square Weekend, John C. Campbell Folk School,…
Traditional Western Square Dances 5b - Sally Goodin and a Docey Doe
Caller: Bill Litchman. This clip shows the actual dance; a separate video shows the walkthrough. Once the dance gets going, Bill throws in patter using lyrics to the song Mountain Dew.
Dance devised by Marvin Shilling, Walsenburg, Colorado
Dare…
Dance devised by Marvin Shilling, Walsenburg, Colorado
Dare…
Larry Edelman - Dances of Jerry Goodwin: Overview and Birdie in the Cage walkthrough
Larry Edelman led a workshop session on dances he learned from the calling of Jerry Goodwin, originally from West Virginia but living and calling in western Pennsylvania when Larry studied with him in the 1970s. Some of the dances were ones Jerry had…
Larry Edelman - Dances of Jerry Goodwin workshop sampler
Larry Edelman led a workshop session on dances he learned from the calling of Jerry Goodwin, originally from West Virginia but living and calling in western Pennsylvania when Larry studied with him in the 1970s. Some of the dances were ones Jerry had…
Larry Edelman - The Missing Link
Larry Edelman, caller, cites this dance by Frank Tyrell as one of his favorites, marking the transitional moment between traditional and modern square dancing. It combines figures from the "around the set" visiting-couple tradition and the "across…
Larry Edelman - Let's All Face Out
Larry Edelman, caller; dance by Buford Evans. Larry incorporates two figures from the "allemande alphabet": Allemande X (pass one and swing the next) and Allemande O (pass one and dosido).
Recorded at Dare To Be Square, Brasstown, NC, November 19,…
Recorded at Dare To Be Square, Brasstown, NC, November 19,…
Larry Edelman - Outside Susie
Caller Larry Edelman credits this version of the Susie Q figure to Frank Tyrell. This clip includes a walkthrough.
Recorded at Dare To Be Square, Brasstown, NC, November 19, 2011.
Musicians for this session were Steve Hickman, fiddle; Claudio…
Recorded at Dare To Be Square, Brasstown, NC, November 19, 2011.
Musicians for this session were Steve Hickman, fiddle; Claudio…
Tony Parkes - Darling Nellie Gray
This clip shows two versions of the dance, the traditional version called by Ralph Page as his usual ending dance and a variation by Maine caller Rod Linnell called "Atomic Nellie Gray." A separate video in this series shows the walkthrough.
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Tony Parkes - Darling Nellie Gray walkthrough
Ralph Page's usual ending dance was Darling Nellie Gray. Here, Tony Parkes teaches that traditional dance as well as a variation by Rod Linnell called "Atomic Nellie Gray"; Tony commented, "Back when 'atomic' was a good thing." This is the…