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18 Apr 07 - 07:10 PM (#2029364) Subject: Dance: Amazing Red River Jig From: GUEST,meself I've seen it danced a thousand times, but never quite like this. The clip is about two-and-a-half minutes - for the full effect, watch it right through; when it gets to the last dancer, you'll see what I'm talking about. The way this dance works: a sort of workaday shuffle is done for the high-pitched turn; during the second, low-pitched turn, the dancer does his or her fancy steps. The Asham stompers seem to be based in Reedy Creek, Manitoba, which is near Ebb & Flow, which is right next to Bacon Ridge, which is just down the road from Kinosota, not terribly far from Ste. Rose-du-Lac. The dancers are Metis, i.e. mixed Native and white, i.e., "halfbreed". You could call the Red River Jig their "national" dance. |
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18 Apr 07 - 07:49 PM (#2029409) Subject: RE: Dance: Amazing Red River Jig From: Q (Frank Staplin) Excellent group! Thanks for the clips. |
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19 Apr 07 - 09:25 AM (#2029888) Subject: RE: Dance: Amazing Red River Jig From: Geoff the Duck That last bloke is GOOD. Quack!! GtD. |
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19 Apr 07 - 09:38 AM (#2029902) Subject: RE: Dance: Amazing Red River Jig From: GUEST,meself Yup. It seems to me, on further thought, that the Asham Stompers are probably based in Winnipeg, but the "ancestral home" of the Ashams is in the Reedy Creek area, and it looks like they put on a festival in Reedy Creek every summer now. Nice to see in an area that has been so marginal economically for so many years. Rich in culture, though. |
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01 Sep 10 - 01:58 PM (#2977681) Subject: RE: Dance: Amazing Red River Jig From: katlaughing Just found a fantastic sound file of this at the Native American Music Awards site on the Best Historic category page. If you use the forward arrow on the embedded player, you can fast forward to Arvel Bird playing it. Really well done! |
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02 Sep 10 - 11:36 AM (#2978488) Subject: RE: Dance: Amazing Red River Jig From: meself I like Arvel Bird's lively, vigorous rendition. Update: the clip I mentioned in the OP is now on this page. Click on the first video, "Red River Jig 2". |
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02 Sep 10 - 08:04 PM (#2978903) Subject: RE: Dance: Amazing Red River Jig From: Ebbie Wow! I watched it twice. Great. |
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02 Sep 10 - 08:29 PM (#2978917) Subject: RE: Dance: Amazing Red River Jig From: Alice Does he have rubber legs?? Thanks for the link! |
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02 Sep 10 - 10:12 PM (#2978962) Subject: RE: Dance: Amazing Red River Jig From: Crowhugger That guy has some crazy knees! |
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02 Sep 10 - 10:59 PM (#2978978) Subject: RE: Dance: Amazing Red River Jig From: katlaughing Thanks, meself. I love Bird's rendition,too, but that link you put in is something for the dancing! Wow! Can't wait to show my grandson. He loves to dance, so I know he's going to say, "How that guy DO that?"*bg* |