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Double Tea-Cup Chain - Les Gotcher

Creator: Les Gotcher (October, 1954)

This is Les Gotcher calling, recorded live at Kirkwood Lodge (Osage Beach, Missouri) at the second annual Les Gotcher Square Dance Institute. We hear Gotcher start with two regular squares doing a teacup chain, and then the Gents #1 in each star do a left hand star promenade to begin the process of moving the two squares into one double square. This is a fine early example of the never-ending search for more complicated figures in square dancing.

The description of the dance comes from Gotcher's Textbook of American Square Dancing (1961). Gotcher notes that the figure "was originated as strictly an exhibition number and must be rehearsed and rehearsed to accomplish the desired results."

Collection: MWSD
Subjects: Transitional/Western 1950s
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Item Relations

This Item is related to Item: Mildred Buhler demonstration group
This Item is related to Item: Teacup Chain - Bill Litchman
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Citation

Les Gotcher, “Double Tea-Cup Chain - Les Gotcher,” Square Dance History Project, accessed February 22, 2025, http://squaredancehistory.org/items/show/1600.
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