Appalachian Circle
A brief look at southern Appalachian circle dances. The author points out how unfamiliar four-couple squares would be to a dance from that region:
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A native of the Appalachian Circle country which includes most of Southeastern United States, does indeed find the four couple set of the North and West and Southwest quite different from the home style. “We haint asaying hit’s wrong, but hit shore is diffurnt.”
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In addition to describing some of the basic figures, he notes differences in vocabulary:
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Without going into many more of the interesting and unique forms, a few words on Do-Si’s and Do-Si-Dos should be put in. The shoulder to shoulder and around movement known as Do-Si or Do-So-Do in the rest of the country is next to unknown in the Southeast. Our Do-Si involves the lady walking around her partner counterclockwise while the gent holds her left hand with his right and passes his right arm over his head.
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Subjects: Southern / Appalachian / Big sets
Tags: Appalachia, big circle, big set
Item Relations
| This Item | is related to | Item: Big circle dance - Manny Wiener & American Square Dance Group |
| This Item | is related to | Item: John Ramsay - Set Running, a Southern Folk Dance |
| This Item | is related to | Item: Square Dancing in the Kentucky Foothills |
| This Item | is related to | Item: Carcassonne big set, #1 |
| This Item | is related to | Item: Big Set 1- Phil Jamison |
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A native of the Appalachian Circle country which includes most of Southeastern United States, does indeed find the four couple set of the North and West and Southwest quite different from the home style. “We haint asaying hit’s wrong, but hit shore is diffurnt.”
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In addition to describing some of the basic figures, he notes differences in vocabulary:
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Without going into many more of the interesting and unique forms, a few words on Do-Si’s and Do-Si-Dos should be put in. The shoulder to shoulder and around movement known as Do-Si or Do-So-Do in the rest of the country is next to unknown in the Southeast. Our Do-Si involves the lady walking around her partner counterclockwise while the gent holds her left hand with his right and passes his right arm over his head.
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