Square Dance History Project

Les Gotcher - Wheel and Deal (clip)

excerpt from a live recording in the early 1960s

Tags: hash, Les Gotcher, live recording, MWSD

Les Gotcher - Square Dancin'

Published in 1950, the book contains directions to 100 dances, as well as photographs illustrating basic moves for beginners. Among those are Do-Ci-Do, Docey, Do-Sa-Do, and Do-Paso. (see the Contents page, included in this file) The book also has a…

Tags: book, Do-Ci-Do, Do-Paso, Do-Sa-Do, Docey, Les Gotcher, MWSD, Square Dancin'

Les Gotcher - Do Paso What (clip)

sample of Les Gotcher's calling style, in this case building a dance from a break sequence

Black Mountain 128

Tags: break, Do Paso, Les Gotcher, MWSD

Bill Litchman - Rocky Mountain Square Dancing

(To open the PDF document, click on the underlined link to the right.)This overview of square dance history focuses on two major groups of square dance. One group (northern, Eastern, Maritime, etc.) relies on quadrille-style figures, with couples…

Tags: Bill Litchman, Cecil Sharp, Do Paso, do-si-do, Docey-Doe, hash, history, Jimmy Clossin, Kentucky Running Set, Les Gotcher, New England, quadrille, Rocky Mountain, running set, set running, southern Appalachian, Spanish, styles, traditional western

SDFNE 1960's Era Recordings

Jim Mayo undertook a project to use the Square Dance Foundation of New England's audio archives and locate representative samples of square dance calling from the time period when Modern Western square dancing was taking off, but before the call…