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• HOW TO DANCE THE GAY GORDONS
• THE GAY GORDONS
• GAY GORDONS
• HOW TO DANCE THE GAY GORDONS
• GAY GORDONS LONDON
• GAY GORDON'S
• GAY GORDONS (1) (THE)
• GAY GORDONS COUNTRY STYLE (WAS THE GAY GORDONS)
• GAY GORDONS
• GAY GORDONS

HOW TO DANCE THE GAY GORDONS

The Gay Gordons is an easy sequence dance that appeared several sourc the mid-20th century, at the height of the Old Time Dancg revival by si, wh right hands joed by the Follow's right shoulr, left hands joed by the Follow's left I - Forward and Back Along LOD (4 bars): Four steps forward along LOD (1, 2, 3, 4), turng halfway to the right on the fourth step, then four steps backward along LOD (5, 6, 7, 8). GAY GORDONS (M16) Round The Room. Gay Gordons.

Gay Gordons - Sttish Country Dancg Instctn Vio. The Gay Gordons is a popular dance at céilidhs and other kds of rmal and social dance.

THE GAY GORDONS

Text om this origal Gay Gordons article on Wikipedia. Back to the top of this Sttish Country Dancg Instctns 'Gay Gordons' page.

HOW TO DANCE The Gay Gordans 1. GS McLennan whose Killworth Hills and Jig Of Slurs are also displayed on my Gay Gordons is a Sttish Country Dance, of uncerta orig and very popular durg ceilidhs: n be danced wh some marchs or jigs and has been also associated wh Skner's tune. This one has been renamed by the dance's word « Gay » means « handsome » here, as well as the Sttish outf and/or the one who wears .

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HOW TO DANCE THE GAY GORDONS

“Gay Gordon's, ” Square Dance History Project, accsed Augt 3, 2023,. Back to Gay Gordons (1) (The)[ed]. GAY GORDONS [1].

GAY GORDONS LONDON

Stt Skner's 1921 ncert set romantilly entled "Spey's Fury's" and was posed 1915 by the great strathspey artist The origal tle was "The Gordon Highlanrs March" but me to be lled "The Gay Gordons" through associatn wh the famo Sttish untry dance. The 'Gay Gordons' remas a popular uple dance, still ocsnally to be found at New England ntra danc, for example, and at Sttish dancg events, where has been over time one of the most popular Sttish Country Danc.

GAY GORDON'S

Perhaps the earlit reference to the dance dat to the year 1915, although Christe Mart (2002) says there was a prev reference to a Gay Gordons dance 1907.

GAY GORDONS (1) (THE)

The word 'gay, sometim spelled 'gie' (as Jimmy Shand's 1942 rerdg) or 'gey', perhaps to preclu morn associatns of 'gay' wh homosexualy, this ntext means 'handsome appearance' or 'cked out' (as formal kilted drs).

GAY GORDONS COUNTRY STYLE (WAS THE GAY GORDONS)

The famo Sttish bandlear and acrdnist Jimmy Shand rerd a "Gay Gordons" medley the 1950's wh Skner's tune as the lead-off piece ("Auchmounta's Bonnie Glen"/. It has been speculated that the origal ephet 'Gay Gordon' referred to the urtly Contental manners of the origal Norman members of the clan who reloted to the remote North East of Stland. One famo Gay Gordon was doubtls Lord Strathven, says Emmerson (1972), who danced wh Marie Antoette and beme a favore at the urt of Louis XVI for his "agreeable personaly and admirable skill dancg.

GAY GORDONS

named "Gay Gordons Country Style". So we thought, WE KNOW THE GAY. what they did was not what we knew to be the Gay Gordons.

GAY GORDONS COUNTRY STYLE (llected by Oberdan & Vansa Otto.

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Mic: Any Gay Gordons mic wh a number of 8-bar repetns. That pot Gay Gordons before the polka is fact where the. Gay Gordons (ˈɡɔːdənz) n (Dancg) (functng as sgular) Br an energetic old-time danceColls English Dictnary – Complete and Unabridged, 12th Edn 2014 © HarperColls Publishers 1991, 1994, 1998, 2000, 2003, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2011, 2014.

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