Don Armstrong - progressive squares
Creator: Don Armstrong (October, 1960)
Don Armstrong calls a tip that moves dancers from one square to another. At the start of the clip, he alerts dances how this will be done and warns them that when they reach the outside of the hall they will need to do a frontier twirl / California twirl to face back in again. Apparently, some of the dancers missed that information, as you hear him repeat those instructions partway into the tip.
A search for "progressive" on this website will bring up other examples of this idea, including examples from the MWSD world and some from caller Bob Isaacs, who is better known to contra dancers.
Recorded live, Kittery, Maine, 1960.
Collection: MWSD
Subjects: Modern Western 1960 - 1974
Tags: Don Armstrong, Kittery, live recording, MWSD, progressive squares
Subjects: Modern Western 1960 - 1974
Tags: Don Armstrong, Kittery, live recording, MWSD, progressive squares
Item Relations
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Citation
Don Armstrong, “Don Armstrong - progressive squares,” Square Dance History Project, accessed February 23, 2025, https://squaredancehistory.org/items/show/838.
Dublin Core
Title
Don Armstrong - progressive squares
Subject
Description
Don Armstrong calls a tip that moves dancers from one square to another. At the start of the clip, he alerts dances how this will be done and warns them that when they reach the outside of the hall they will need to do a frontier twirl / California twirl to face back in again. Apparently, some of the dancers missed that information, as you hear him repeat those instructions partway into the tip.
A search for "progressive" on this website will bring up other examples of this idea, including examples from the MWSD world and some from caller Bob Isaacs, who is better known to contra dancers.
Recorded live, Kittery, Maine, 1960.
A search for "progressive" on this website will bring up other examples of this idea, including examples from the MWSD world and some from caller Bob Isaacs, who is better known to contra dancers.
Recorded live, Kittery, Maine, 1960.
Creator
Source
Tape recorded by Tom Potts and donated by his estate to the Square Dance Foundation of New England
Date Created
October, 1960
Contributor
Spatial Coverage
Temporal Coverage
Sound Item Type Metadata
Original Format
reel to reel tape, digitized by Jim Mayo
Duration
7:09