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Servel Square Dance Club
The Servel Square Dance Club of Evansville, Indiana was formed by employees of the Servel plant, which made refrigerators before and after World War II. In this photo are square dancers, caller… View itemDocument
Square Dance Institute - Rickey Holden, 1950
Syllabus of a workshop led by Holden in Massachusetts in 1950, introducing Texas style square dancing to New England dancers. In addition to notes on figures and styling, this handout included… View itemDocument
Square Dance Lessons - Doc Alumbaugh
A series of photographs with text illustrating basic square dance figures. This set, incomplete at the moment, appeared in a Rochester, New York, newspaper in 1950; Alumbaugh led a series of… View itemDocument
Dancing with Style - Lloyd Shaw
Lloyd Shaw's Cheyenne Mountain Dancers took the country by storm on their many cross-country trips; their stylish dancing, and Shaw's ideas on the subject, influenced subsequent generations of… View itemDocument
Bar Nothin' Squares - record ad
This ad for Bar Nothin' Squares, the live album recorded with Bud Udick calling, proclaims proudly, "DON'T USE MONOTONOUS RECORDS WHERE ALL THE COUPLES DO THE SAME THING."… View itemMoving Image
The Great American Folk Dance
The caller featured in many sequences is Bob Van Antwerp. This film was produced by KBYU, Provo, Utah, produced in cooperation with the Associated Square Dance Clubs of Utah. The original film had… View itemMoving Image
Bow to your Partner: 23rd National Square Dance Convention
Film of the 23rd National Square Dance Convention, held in San Antonio, TX, in 1974. Related Items link to footage of other National Conventions in 1959, 1961, 1970, and 1976.01:30 square dancers and… View itemMoving Image
The Lloyd Shaw Foundation in Action
This 1972 film describes the many activities of the Lloyd Shaw Foundation at that time. The movie was written and narrated by Don Armstrong, and produced and edited by Truett Myers. In addition to… View itemDocument
Smoky Mountain Square Dances
NOTE: This is a large file and might take a while to load.To read the actual booklet, choose the DOWNLOAD link or select the source file located by scrolling to Additional Files.This collection,… View itemDocument
Traditional Square Dance of Ocracoke Island, North Carolina
Detailed description of big set dances on Ocracoke Island, and an attempt in 1996 to re-create a dance tradition that had died out. Note: when you scroll through the PDF, you’ll see the cover page,… View itemMoving Image
Malcolm McLaren, Buffalo Gals
Hip hop video riffing on square dancing, released in 1982 Another video shows the same material presented in a concert setting.McLaren was an English musician, performer, manager of the Sex Pistols,… View item
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