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Big circle dance - Manny Wiener & American Square Dance Group

Creator: American Square Dance Group (February 1941)

Caller Manny Wiener leads a big circle dance—here introduced as a Kentucky running set—with members of Margot Mayo's American Square Dance Group. This is a portion of a half hour radio broadcast on WNYC in February, 1941, part of a series called "America Tells Its Stories." The program can be heard in its entirety here.

The Related Items link to a 1947 moving image of the group doing a similar routine with caller Stu Jamieson, and his own description of how the dances are structured.

Collection: Southern Appalachian
Subjects: Southern / Appalachian / Big sets
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Item Relations

This Item is related to Item:

To Hear Your Banjo Play - 1947
 with Pete Seeger and Margot Mayo's American Square Dance Group
This Item is related to Item: Stu Jamieson - The Old-Time Kentucky Running Set
Item: Appalachian Circle is related to This Item
Item: Big Set - Berea Country Dancers, 2011 is related to This Item
Item: Let's Square Dance – Claude Chadwick is related to This Item
Item: Promenade (Margot Mayo) is related to This Item
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Citation

American Square Dance Group, “Big circle dance - Manny Wiener & American Square Dance Group,” Square Dance History Project, accessed February 23, 2025, http://squaredancehistory.org/items/show/1491.
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