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Contra Dancing in Mexico—The Adventure Begins!
by Linda Leslie Mérida Dance Week, January 16-23, 2016 It is a testament to the joy of contra dancing, that some folks will go to great lengths to make sure that they have opportunities to dance. Take...
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Talking Square
Rima (3rd from right) representing CDSS at the 2015 National Square Dance Convention (photo by David Millstone) We had the privilege of participating in a national organization panel at the National...
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American Week, Pinewoods 2014
by Chuck Abell Photo by Garrett Fondoules When I first heard about the Country Dancers of Rochester (CDR) scholarship program for CDSS camps, I developed an immediate interest. As a new caller—and as...
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Folk Music Archives Conference
by Pat MacPherson, CDSS Director of Education On May 7th and 8th, 2015, I attended a Folk Music Archives Conference, organized by Jay Hartman-Berrier, Director of the Indian Neck Folk Festival from...
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Dance, Music, Song & Talk at Red Barn Folk Festival
by Pat MacPherson, CDSS Director of Education Two weeks ago, I made my way to the Red Barn at Hampshire College in Amherst, MA, the site of some mighty fun contra dances. On this occasion, however, I...
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Spread The Joy—It’s a slogan, it’s a song!
by Jonathan Jensen Musician, songwriter and longtime CDSS member Jonathan Jensen, of Baltimore, sent us this lovely gift of his song in honor of our Centennial in 2015. It debuted on March 24, during...
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Storytelling at Ralph Page Dance Legacy Weekend
The 2015 Ralph Page Dance Legacy Weekend was a special one for CDSS. Each year the weekend hosts a “retrospective session;” several hours of the dance weekend dedicated to honoring and exploring some...
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Trad Dance & Music Exhibit Opens in New Hampshire
by Lisa Sieverts Image: mid-1850s Dance Prompter’s Notebook Interested in the history of contra and square dance? Come to Peterborough, New Hampshire, to view an exhibit opening on January 24, 2015:...
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Pat Napier
by Katy Tarter German In 2007, CDSS awarded its CDSS Lifetime Contribution Award to Patrick Napier of Bowling Green, Kentucky, for his long service and inspirational teaching to his local community....
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Math, Music and Contra Dance
by Lena Erickson I first heard about contra dance at a small math conference in Northfield, Minnesota during the summer of 2013 when a graduate student described the connection between contra dance and...
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Southwest Regional Organizers Conference (SWROC): From Conference to COALITION
by Linda Henry, CDSS Outreach Manager Here’s a glimpse of history-in-the-making for dance communities throughout the Southwestern U.S… On September 19, 2014, an enthusiastic crowd of 78 dance...
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CDSS Midwest Camp Task Group Survey
The CDSS Midwest Camp Task Group (MCTG) was established by the CDSS Board at its annual meeting in April 2012 to explore the feasibility of establishing a summer camp focusing on traditional dance,...
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How to Photograph a Contra Dance
by Doug Plummer Doug Plummer is well known in the dance community nationwide as that guy who takes all the dance photos and videos and puts them all over Facebook and in a calendar. Since 2012 he has...
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Southwest Organizers Conference—important deadlines!
by Linda Henry, CDSS Outreach Manager, on behalf of the SWROC Steering Committee Dear Dance Organizers, In case you haven’t heard the news, CDSS is co-sponsoring the Southwest Regional Organizers...
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To dance, to sing, perhaps to play music
photo by Jeff Bary Can you make difficult class choices? Say, from an enticing menu of contras, squares and waltz? Are you up for a strong program of Appalachian, American Southern and Irish...
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Lifetime Contribution Award for 2014 goes to…
Jim Morrison Jim Morrison of Charlottesville, VA, will be this year’s recipient of the CDSS Lifetime Contribution Award. Jim brought youthful enthusiasm and strong connections to emerging contra,...
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Are You Committed to Dance Organizing?
Gaye Fifer, dance organizer extraordinaire Then our special Dance Organizers Course is for you. Led by Gaye Fifer and held during CDSS’s English & American Dance Week at Pinewoods (EAP), August...
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“Come be part of the magic!”—English & American Dance Week, August 23-30, 2014
photo: Doug Plummer There’s lots of sublime English country dancing and exhilarating contra dancing at CDSS’s English & American Dance Week at Pinewoods, near Plymouth, MA. This year a Dance...
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Techno, Gender-free, and Bluesy Contras: Evolving Tradition?
by Abigail Hobart Abigail at the Downtown Amherst Contradance last fall (photo courtesy the author) What is tradition? This question is relevant to all contra dancers, whether we realize it or not....
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“Notes from the May Day Train,” Cambridge, MA
by Jane Winans, from Notes from the Train (used by permission) Leaping in the air: Nathaniel Diamond-Jones (by Jane Winans) I was photographing Newtowne Morris this morning. (Muddy River and Red...
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