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Round Dance

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This video performance is from my lecture-demonstration at our local library. I demonstrated two forms of the powwow Round Dance, the faster and more common dance step, and a slower version of it. The music you hear is Round Dance Song No. 17, performed by the Big Mountain Singers an all-female drum group made up of the Shoyo family on the Wind River Shoshone Reservation in Wyoming . This song appears in my book, Songprints: The Musical Experience of Five Shoshone Women, and is on the accompanying cassette tape for the book.

Fancy Shawl Dance

Fancy Shawl Dance: Quicktime Player

Fancy Shawl Dance: Windows Media Player

This video performance is from my lecture-demonstration at our local library. I am performing the women’s Fancy Shawl Dance, which is a young woman’s dance. (Wyoming Shoshones, from whom I learned about Shoshone music and culture, would be very amused to see me, a senior woman, doing this dance.) The Fancy Shawl Dance is the female counterpart to the male Fancy War Dance. The music accompanying my demonstration, War Dance Song No. 18, is performed by the Big Mountains Singers, an all-female drum group of the Shoyo family on the Wind River Reservation of Wyoming. This song appears in my book, Songprints: The Musical Experience of Five Shoshone Women, and is on the accompany cassette tape for the book.