Kathleen Rondeau teaching her daughter, Chanda, Irish stepdancing

Basket maker

Apprentices

Fieldwork

Teaching of folklore

Stepdancing

Dance

Irish Americans

Irish dance

Dancers

Body movement

One proof sheets with thirty black and white images (plus negatives). Rondeau and her daughter Chanda were among the first participants in the Florida Folk Arts Apprenticeship Program in 1983-1984. As a master folk artist, Rondeau taught Chanda Irish step dancing. Rondeau, who learned stepdancing in Ireland, ran the Gaelic School of Irish Stepdancing, where the images were taken. The Folk Arts Apprenticeship Program began in 1983 with a NEA grant of $22,000. The program provided an opportunity for master folk artists to share technical skills and cultural knowledge with apprentices in order to keep the tradition alive. Apprentices must have had some experience in the tradition and had agreed to train for at least six months. The first project director was Blanton Owen, who was later replaced by folklorist Peter Roller. The program was continued each year until 2003.

State Archives of Florida, Series S1640

1984-02

Florida Folklife Program

Still Image

S1640

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Photographic prints

Folk Arts Apprenticeship Program

Owen, Blanton, 1945-1998

Rondeau, Kathleen

Rondeau, Chanda, 1969-

Irish Americans

1905

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