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

We had flown back from Stockholm on 9/10. We were jet lagged when we got up and turned on the radio as we usually do and heard a report of a plane that crashed into the World Trade Center. I immediately thought of the time when I was istening to the rado with my parents on July 28, 1945 and heard a report of a plane crashing into the Empire State ( Read more... )

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This weekend was the annual New England Folk Festival (NEFFA). It takes place on the campus of a Middle and High School in Mansfield, MA. The two gyms are gigantic dance halls, various classrooms are used for other activities, Morris and sword dancing outside, and the cafeteria has a number of groups cooking and serving food (ours is one of those ( Read more... )

This weekend was another great Lavender Country and Folk Dancers (LCFD) dance camp. We have them twice a year. rsc and I went to our first one in the fall of 1997 and I haven't missed any since then (Robert missed one because he was sick).

We do lots of Contra Dancing and some English Country dancing. Our band was Perpetual e-Motion. They are a ( Read more... )

This was the weekend of the annual New England Folk Festival. It is an entirely volunteer run enterprise that takes place in the Mansfield, MA High and Middle Schools (on same campus). The two gyms are dance halls, the two auditoriums are used for performances or workshops on the stages, and there are are activities in some of the classrooms. It ( Read more... )

This weekend was the annual weekend event called NEFFA. It is a festival full of folk dancing of every type, wonderful music, several thousand smiling people all having a great time and a huge crew of volunteers who make it happen. It takes place in the Mansfield, MA Middle and High schools; the gyms are the main dance halls, the auditoriums and ( Read more... )

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Last weekend was LCFD Fall Gender Free Dance Camp. We were at a YMCA camp in Becket, Mass - the site of many such dance camps - we have two a year and the fall one is at this site; the spring one at another YMCA camp. Also our West Coast affiliate runs a very similar dance camp - I've been to all three of them and will go to the next one in April ( 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... )