Revival of American Square and Country Dancing - 1949
This article documents the change on American dance floors in Michigan state in the late 1940s, where, in the author's words, "crooners are replaced by callers." She cites the work of Grace Ryan in Mount Pleasant as well at the Mott Foundation and Harold Bacon in Flint. She mentions a dance festival in the fall of 1948 with "as many as seventy-two sets of squares on the floor at one time."
Henry Ford, back in the 1920s, played an important role in Michigan dance circles, but this careful account is a valuable description of dancing in that region in the time immediately after WW II.
Juana de Laban (1910-1978) was the daughter of Rudolf von Laban, the inventor of the system of Labanotation, a method of documenting dance movements.
Subjects: Midwest (northern)
Tags: Grace Ryan, Juana de Laban, Michigan
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This article documents the change on American dance floors in Michigan state in the late 1940s, where, in the author's words, "crooners are replaced by callers." She cites the work of Grace Ryan in Mount Pleasant as well at the Mott Foundation and Harold Bacon in Flint. She mentions a dance festival in the fall of 1948 with "as many as seventy-two sets of squares on the floor at one time."
Henry Ford, back in the 1920s, played an important role in Michigan dance circles, but this careful account is a valuable description of dancing in that region in the time immediately after WW II.
Juana de Laban (1910-1978) was the daughter of Rudolf von Laban, the inventor of the system of Labanotation, a method of documenting dance movements.