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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.
Modern western square dance was the official dance of the United States from 1982 to 1993. Modern western square dance, like traditional square dance, is directed by a caller. In modern western square dance the caller strings together a sequence of individual square dance calls to make a figure or sequence.
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 square dance is a dance for four couples, or eight dancers in total, arranged in a square, with one couple on each side, facing the middle of the square. Square dances are part of a broad spectrum of dances known by various names: country dances, traditional dances, folk dances, barn dances, ceilidh dances, contra dances, Playford dances, etc.
A little after 8:30 p.m. Thursday, an emcee introduced "the most celebrated professional square dance caller in the world." Oxendine stepped on stage. Dancers familiar with his calling skills ...
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]
"The Trail of the Lonesome Pine" is a popular song published in 1913, with lyrics by Ballard MacDonald and music by Harry Carroll.It was inspired by John Fox Jr.'s 1908 novel of the same title, but whereas the novel was set in the Cumberland Mountains of Kentucky, the song refers to the Blue Ridge Mountains of Virginia.
The line during the square-dance ending that goes: Grab a fence post, hold it tight/Whomp yer partner wit' all yer might/Hit 'im in the shin, hit 'im in the head/Hit 'im again, the critter ain't dead/Whomp 'im low an' Whomp 'im high/Stick yer finger in his eye/Pretty li'l rhythm, pretty li'l sound/Bang yer head against the ground (and the ...