Let’s Square Dance SeriesSquare Dance 6: Hoosier Promenade

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Year Published: 1957

Creator: Indiana University

Complete Record: Instructional film on how to square dance to the song “Hoosier Promenade”. Dance entails passing woman to man opposite; women coming to center, joining right hands and walking clockwise and men dancing around their partners. INT (perhaps a gymnasium with wood floor and curtain hung in BG). Four couples dance slowly to song Hoosier Promenade. Song lyrics detail steps of dance. VO Narrator describes steps in more detail. Various HLDSs and LSs: Four young couples in western wear and hoop dresses also have vests emblazoned with large white numbers. Couples are numbered 1, 2, 3 and. Couples perform dance steps slowly, with no music, following VO narrator’s instructions. Man 1 passes Woman on 1 to Man 3, etc. Various LSs, MSs: Same couples (now without numbered vests) dance to faster version of “Hoosier Promenade”. Various LSs, MSs: Four older couples dance to song, without narration. Folding chairs, bad art in BG. Cut to EXT lawn in back of building, BG possibly a school. Various HLDSs, LSs, MSs: Children (between 9 and 12 years) in western wear hoop skirts, dance to the “Hoosier Promenade” LDS overhead shot of several adult groups dancing, same EXT. HLS of adult couples dancing outside. MCSs of hoop skirts spinning. Film ends with song, no narration.