Dance and its Folk Influence

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Dance and its Folk Influence

• Swing Your Partner Round and Round

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Cecil Sharp

• English folklorist, 1917
• Southern Appalachians
• Strange dance called a running set
• Square dancing

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Square Dancing

• Square Dancing
• Spacious dance
• Promenade figures bound figures together
• No courtesy movements

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Square Dancing

• Evolved with great speed
• Figures were reminiscent of childrens singing
  games
• Possibly coming from roots of northern England
  and Scotland

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Square Dancing

• Danced in square form
• After introduction, first couple moves to second
  couple and executes figure
• Motion repeats

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Square Dancing

• Continues into a looping and crocheting chain
  stitch of continuous and furious dancing

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Square Dancing

• Do-si-do
• Each couple ties off when finished
• An altered form of western dancing

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Square Dancing

• Cecil Sharp
• The body should be held erect, motionless, with
  every limb loose and relaxed, and inclined in the
  direction of the motion, as in skating.

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Square Dancing

• Types of Dances
• Shoot the Owl
• Chase the Squirrel
• Wild Goose Chase
• Box the Gnat
• Going Down Town

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Square Dancing

• Types of Dances
• Treatem Right
• Ladies in the Centre
• Old Dan Tucker
• Wind up the Ball Yarn

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Clogging

• Derived from the Appalachian Mountains
• Impromptu foot-tapping style

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Clogging

• Clog comes from a Gaelic word meaning time
• Performed in time to music, on the downbeat with
  the heel keeping rhythm

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Clogging a melting pot
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Clogging

• One of cloggings most renowned founders
• Bascom Lamar Lunsford
• 1920s
• Soco Gap Dancers

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Clogging

• In 2003, clog dancing was included as a
  competitive dance sport at the Junior Olympics

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Lets Dance!