ures, music and dress. For example, the Circassian Circle is a dance where partners form a large circle round the room, with ladies on the right side of their partners. Music that accompanies the dance represents 32 bar Reels, with different gestures or dance movements occurring at specific bars in the music. For example, in bars 1-4 the dancers join hands in a circle and all advance four steps and then retire four steps. Such dances represent certain meanings to the participants, investing them with signs of meaning to Celts. As Chandler (2004) argues, ôSigns take the forms of words, images, sounds, odors, flavors, acts or objects, but such things have n
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