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London Folk was the EFDSS national dance display team. Here, former members most probably in their 60s and 70s now, dance for the 2011 EFDSS National gathering at Cecil Sharp House. Nothing could contrast more with the USA dreamy, floaty, feet not leaving the floor view of English Country Dance. You will see: precision, energy, skipping, swinging, ranting, pas-de-bas, dancing/swinging around and stepping.
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Database lists titles, authors and figures but does not contain calling instructions. Contained 13578 entries as of 9 Feb 2015.
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Jane Austen meets Jerry Garcia! A wild afternoon of elegant dances called by Melissa Running and lovely music played in ridiculous ways by Giant Robot Dance (Michael and Alex Ferguson, Aaron and Andrew Marcus, and Noah and Andrew VanNorstrand). Stately baroque piano combining with mind-blowing electric guitar and dueling trombones. Dancers satisfying their inner rock child while floating gracefully around the dance floor! The dance is Emperor of the Moon " (Andrew Shaw’s reconstruction) composed by Motley, from The Dancing-Master 8th ed. 1690.
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Leah Barkan was a vital & preeminent musical force iwith Country Dancers of Westchester (CDW). When Fried de Metz Herman & Christine Helwig founded CDW in 1974, Leah joined as a dancer. She took her first steps as a dance pianist by filling in for the legendary Phil Merrill, who was easing out of that role. Workshops with Marshall Barron, another seminal figure in the world of dance music, provided Leah with valuable learning experiences & inspired her to pursue the path toward excellent dance musicianship. Her advice for dance musicians continues to hold true.
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John Sweeniey's excellent article about the dance term 'gypsy'
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Dances from old editions of English Folk Dance & Song Society magazines
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American dancing master, and ball-room prompter containing about five hundred dances including all the latest and most fashionable ... with elegant illustrations, and full explanation and every variety of the latest and most approved figures, and calls for the different changes, and rules on deportment and the toilet, and the etiquette of dancing
By Howe, Elias -- 1820-1895 and published in Boston, 1862
