As a South Slav/American and a dance ethnologist, my work focuses on change in dance/dancing as it relates to cultural change. The project herein refered to is best described as a comparative study of change over three generations (approximately 1900 to the present). The subjects are South Slav communities in California and communities in Yugoslavia which are regional sources of first generation immigrants in California. During this study I became aware of being both an insider and outsider, however, at the outset of this long term project (begun in 1974), I was neither aware nor concerned about the difference my cultural status would make to the group, to the research, or to myself.