Locate someone in your community who does traditional dances, such as Cajun two-step or waltz, zydeco two-step or waltz, second-line dancing, old-time country two-step or waltz, and Native American pow wow dances. Dance traditions are also practiced by Czechs, Filipinos, Greeks, Hungarians, Vietnamese, and others. Interview dancers using the questions below and ask them to sign or give an oral release so that you can use the information you learn.

Name of Student Interviewer: __________________________  Date: ______________

Name of Dancer: ________________________________________________________

Male or Female (circle) Age:____ Written Release Acquired? ____ Oral Release? ____

1.  What do you call the dance? _____________________________________________

2.  When and where did you learn this kind of dance?

_______________________________________________________________________

3.  How did you learn it? Think about these questions:

Did a person teach it to you?

_______________________________________________________________________

What is your relationship to that person?

_______________________________________________________________________

Did you learn it from watching a live performance?

_______________________________________________________________________

Television performance? _______ Taped performance? _______

Did you learn it some other way?

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4.  What specific movements are important?

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Are they hard to do?

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