Here is a video of the Newfoundland set dance
Runnin' the Goat, originally from Harbour Deep.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D004FnTsmwo
In this video of a 1980 videocassette published by Memorial University
Extension Service, four couples are shown in a traditional Newfoundland
dance. While most non-aboriginal dances in Newfoundland and Labrador can
be traced to Britain, "Running The Goat" is a group dance in eight
figures indigenous to Harbour Deep, a community which stopped existing
in 2002 as a result of the 1992 closure of the in-shore cod fishery. The
eight figures or movements of the dance are notated in the video as: Off
She Goes, Swing Your Partner, Cross Over, Through The Bushes, Figure
Eight, On The Labrador, Dance Around, and One Swing Off.
And for local readers, on Friday April 11 at 7 p.m. at the
Benevolent Irish Society at 30 Harvey Rd. in St. John's,
there will be a Scoff 'n' Scuff Dinner, Dance & Silent Auction.
Ford Elms will be our caller and Rick West, Allan Ricketts, Danny Mills,
Fergus Brown-O'Byrne, and Tony O'Brien will be providing the tunes.
Tickets are $25 each and available at O'Brien's Music Store.
Doors open at 7pm.
Beef soup and rolls, tea and coffee will be served before the dance
begins.
Join us to bring in the Spring!
(unfortunately I am a vegetarian)
--
David Dalton dalton@nfld.com http://www.nfld.com/~dalton (home page)
http://www.nfld.com/~dalton/dtales.html Salmon on the Thorns (mystic page)
"Moon in the window; a bird on the pole
Can always find a millionaire to shovel all the coal" (Tom Waits)
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