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Modern Appalachian square dancing. Also called old-time square dance or quadrilles by some older New England callers in recognition of the dance it descended from, traditional square dance is not standardized and can be subdivided into three main regional styles: Northeast/New England, Southeast/Appalachian, and Western. [4]
Fenton G. "Jonesy" Jones (June 2, 1907 – June 30, 2003) was an American musician, best known as a square dance caller. He was widely described as a "nationally-known [dance] caller". [1] [2] Jones was born in 1907 in Los Angeles, California. [3] His mother, who died when Jones was seven years old, was a pianist and guitarist. [4]
A traditional square dance in Concord, Massachusetts. Traditional square dance is a generic American term for any style of American square dance other than modern Western.The term can mean (1) any of the American regional styles (broadly, Northeastern, Southeastern, and Western) that existed before around 1950, when modern Western style began to develop out of a blend of those regional styles ...
The Country Dance Book: The Old-Fashioned Square Dance, Its History, Lore, Variations and Its Callers. Literary Licensing, LLC. ISBN 978-1-4940-3855-7. The Ralph Page Book of Contras. London: English Folk Dance and Song Society. 1969. ISBN 0-85418-003-6. OCLC 810699. Heritage Dances of Early America. Colorado Springs, Colorado: Lloyd Shaw ...
Will Mentor calls a square dance at the John C. Campbell Folk School in North Carolina. A caller is a person who prompts dance figures in such dances as line dance, square dance, and contra dance. The caller might be one of the participating dancers, though in modern country dance this is rare.
In 1994, he was named to the Square Dance Foundation of New England's Hall of Fame. [3] In 1996, he and his wife Sue received the New England Square and Round Dance Cooperation Committee's Yankee Clipper Award. [4] He is fondly remembered in SQUARE & ROUND DANCE FEDERATION OF NOVA SCOTIA's [5] Between tips article.
The square functions as a "dance team" for the duration of a square dance tip, a group of dances usually separated from the next tip by a pause during which the dancers regroup into new squares. A square dance tip is usually composed of a combination of patter calls and singing calls, the two types of square dance calls.
Tony Parkes (November 10, 1949 – May 6, 2024) was an American professional square dance, contra dance and folk dance caller and choreographer who was active in the region surrounding Boston, Massachusetts, in the United States. [2] He wrote the book Contra Dance Calling – A Basic Text in 1992 and updated it in 2010. [3]