Kentucky Running Set

Kentucky Running Set

instruction and dance

Southern / Appalachian / Four-couple squares

Stew Shacklette provides a brief introduction, followed by instruction in several components of the dance (1:03), and concluding with all the figures danced (3:10). Excerpted from "The Kentucky Running Set" and used with permission. Full instructional video and two audio tapes produced by the Kentucky Dance Foundation, c/o Folk Dancer Record Center, 6290 Olin Road, Brandenburg, Kentucky 40108

For further discussion of the so-called "running set," see this interview with dance historian and caller Phil Jamison.

Kentucky Dance Foundation

Stew Shacklette

USA, Kentucky

1990s