We went dancing - Contra or English - on 90 days or nights in 2019 ( Read more... )

18 nights at JP Gender Free Contra
19 nights at JP Gender Free English
15 nights at BIDA in Cambridge
1 night at BIDA Spark in the Dark in Somerville ( Read more... )

English Country Dancing in JP on Nov 8 ( Read more... )

The count of days might be slightly off, but I get 84 days when we went dancing in 2015 ( Read more... )

At our English Country Dance series as is common at many such dances the caller writes the name of each dance that is called on a whiteboard. I photograph it and then enter the names in a database and post a PDF to our webpage.


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Last night we went to a splendid production of Macbeth (Verdi) at the Boston Lyric Opera. It was a modern staging and opened with bodies hanging by their feet from the rafters. I thought all the music, singing, staging, and acting was excellent. Lady Macbeth was sung by Carter Scott and she had a big voice, of the kind I don't usually like but it ( Read more... )

This weekend was the New England Folk Festival. It takes place at the Mansfield Middle & High schools from Friday evening through Sun afternoon. There are 10 - 15 activities going on at any time with big dance sessions in the two gyms ( Read more... )

Two kinds of dancing on Easter Island. One night we went to an entertaining native dancing show. Here are a couple of fragments of what they were doing.




Then we did our own - some English Country Dancing and a couple of Contras. We danced Easter Morn but didn't do Easter Thursday because we didn't have its music.

Several fragments of ( Read more... )

Last night we had the 14th Anniversary of our Gender Free English Country Dance (ECD) series. This dance was started by Michael Cicone and Rob Dobson after their visits to the Heather & Rose Dance group in Oregon where Gender Role free ECD started and has continued for every 2nd, 4th, and 5th Tuesday since they started it. We dance in the UU ( Read more... )