Dances of Jerry Goodwin 3 - Four Horsemen Schottische & Polka

Larry Edelman led a workshop session on dances he learned from the calling of Jerry Goodwin, originally from West Virginia but living and calling in western Pennsylvania when Larry studied with him in the 1970s. Some of the dances were ones Jerry had learned from his father.

In those communities, Larry said, typically three squares would be dances in one tip, then followed by a couple dance. (He said that more than a dozen such dances were danced there, and an evening program would include 18 squares.) Larry introduced a schottische danced by two couples, and then asked the musicians for a polka.

This was recorded at Dare To Be Square on November 19, 2011, at the John C. Campbell Folk School, Brasstown, NC. Additional support for the weekend, including for this videotaping by John-Michael Seng-Wheeler, was provided by Country Dance and Song Society (CDSS). The weekend brought together six well-known callers and some 70 square dance enthusiasts from around the country to explore different traditional and modern styles.

In some cases, you'll find a separate video with instructions / walkthrough; in others, the teaching comes at the beginning of the clip, and in some cases you'll just see the dancing. Each Brasstown workshop also has a sampler, with a short excerpt of each dance.

Musicians for this session were Claudio Buchwald and Steve Hickman, fiddles; Jim Morrison, guitar; and Sam Bartlett, banjo. The tune is "Rochester Schottishe."

These videos are part of the Square Dance History Project. You can read more about us here: http://www.SquareDanceHistory.org