BACDS Fall Dance Weekend 2015

<BODY BGCOLOR="#C6EFF7"> <CENTER> <B><FONT SIZE=+1><A HREF="http://www.bacds.org"> <IMG SRC="../img/small_bacds_logo.gif" ALT="BACDS logo."><BR> The Bay Area Country Dance Society</A> <BR>Presents</FONT></B><BR> <FONT SIZE=+2>The 2014 Fall Dance Weekend</FONT><BR> <FONT SIZE=+2>At <I><A HREF="http://www.camping.org/monte.htm">Monte Toyon</A></I> in Aptos, California</FONT><BR> <FONT SIZE=+2>October 16-18, 2015</FONT><BR></CENTER> <P><BR> <HR WIDTH="100%"><BR> <body bgcolor="#ffffc6"> <center> <table noborder> <tr> <td> <A HREF="fw15about.htmlx" target="Content">About</A> |  </td>  <td> <A HREF="fall_frolick_15.pdf" target="_blank"> Registration Flyer</A> |  </td> <td> <a href="fw2015schedule.pdf" target="Content"> Schedule (PDF) </a>  |  </td> <td> <a href="fw2015classdesc.pdf" target="Content"> Class Descriptions (PDF) </a>  |  </td> <td> <A HREF="fw2015camperinfo.pdf" target="Content"> Camper Info (PDF)</A>  |  </td> <td> <A HREF="fw15particulars.htmlx" target="Content">Prices, etc.</A>  |  </td>     <td> <A HREF="http://www.uccr.org/camp/monte-toyon" target="_blank"> Site Info (opens new window or tab)</A> |  </td> <td> <A target="Content" HREF="http://maps.google.com/maps?f=q&hl=en&geocode=&q=Monte+Toyon+camp+Aptos&jsv=121&sll=39.43195,-121.398926&sspn=6.312644,10.810547&ie=UTF8&ei=S5aSSJvzOoq6jgPE3eSOBg&cd=1&cid=36995332,-121896497,3502445877648512809&li=lmd&z=14&t=m" > Map </A>  |  </td> <td> <A target="Content" HREF="fw15directions.htmlx">Directions</A>  |  </td> <td> <A HREF="fw15fragfree.htmlx" target="Content">Fragrance Free</A>  |  </td>     <td rowspan=3> <a target="_blank" HREF="archive.htmlx">Past Years</a> </td> </tr> </TABLE> </center> </BODY> <P><BR> <HR WIDTH="100%"><BR> <A NAME="staff"></A> <HTML> <BODY BGCOLOR="#FFD700"> <A Name="Top"> <div align="center"> <table border=2> <caption> Click on the name of a staff member to jump to his or her bio. Bios will be added as we receive them! </caption> <tr> <td> <a href="#Nick">Nick Cuccia</a> </td> <td> <a href="#Barbara">Barbara Finney </a> </td> <td> <a href="#Charlie">Charlie Hancock</a> </td> </tr> <tr> <td> <a href="#Linda">Linda Henderson</a> </td> <td> <a href="#Rosemary">Rosemary Hunt</a> </td> <td> <a href="#Shira">Shira Kammen</a> </td> </tr> <tr> <td> <a href="#Rebecca">Rebecca King</a> </td> <td> <a href="#Michelle">Michelle Levy </a> </td> <td> <a href="#Tom">Thomas Lindemuth</a> </td> </tr> <tr> <td> <a href="#Jim">Jim Oakden </a> </td> <td> <a href="#Lyle">Lyle Ramshaw </a> </td> <td> <a href="#Joanna">Joanna Reiner </a> </td> </tr> <tr> <td> </td> <td> <a href="#Susan">Susan Worland</a> </td> <td> </td> </tr> </table> </div> <div align="left"> <hr> <br /> <br /> <table> <caption> Fall Frolick's <b>Dance </b> leaders are: </caption> <tr> <td width="60%" colspan="2"> <a name="Rosemary"></a> <em>Rosemary Hunt</em> <p> From rural Dorset we have Rosemary Hunt, a fine teacher of both contemporary and historic English country dance. Co-editor with her husband Steve of the collection Dances from 1792, caller at dance weeks and weekends in the UK (Halsway Manor, Chippenham, Lichfield, Eastbourne), US, Belgium, and Holland, Rosemary is the resident caller at the Wareham Folk Dance Club and organizer of Dorset's popular Purbeck weekend. She also choreographs dances, setting many of them to tunes by Steve. </p> </td> <td width= "40%"> <img height="350" src="rosemary.jpg" alt="Rosemary Hunt"> </td> </tr> <tr> </td> <td width="15%"> </td> </tr> <tr> <td width="15%">   </td> <td> <hr> </td> <td width="15%"> </tr> <tr> <td width="40%">    </td> <td colspan="2" width="60%" align=center> <a name="Barbara"></a> <em>Barbara Finney</em> <br /> From CDS Boston Centre we have Barbara Finney, one of the East Coast's top English country dance leaders. Described as "articulate, genial and serene," Barbara is known for her clear teaching and welcoming presence. Her varied dance background includes teaching and performing baroque, renaissance, Morris, longsword, and Scottish as well as English country dance. </td> </tr> <tr> <td width="15%">   </td> <td> <hr> </td> <td width="15%"> </tr> <tr> <td colspan=2 width="60"> <a name="Linda"></a> <em>Linda Henderson</em> <p> In 2015 we've added an exciting new track to the weekend: Scottish country dancing, led by RSCDS teacher Linda Henderson. Originally from North Berwick, a small town near Edinburgh, Linda now lives in the Bay Area. Once a competitive Highland Dancer, she took her RSCDS Teaching Certificate at St. Andrews. Since moving to California, she has taught workshops throughout the U.S. and Canada and has been on staff for English-Scottish Session at Pinewoods and for the Teachers' Association (Canada) Summer School. </td> <td width="15%"> <img height="350" src="linda.jpg" alt="Linda Henderson"> </td> </tr> <tr> <td width="15%">   </td> <td> <hr> </td> <td width="15%"> </tr> <tr> <td width="15%"> <tr> <td width="15%" valign=top align=right> <img src="joanna2.jpg" height="350" alt="Joanna Reiner at Boston Ball" > <a name="Joanna"></a> </td> <td align="center" valign="top" colspan=2> <em>Joanna Reiner</em> <br /> Rounding out the English country dance staff is Joanna Reiner. Joanna, a Philadelphia-based English dance caller, is known for the clarity of her teaching and her dedication to encouraging people to become better dancers. Her calling has taken her from Pinewoods Camp in Plymouth, MA, to Hey Days in the Bay Area of CA, from St. Croix to Hawaii. Joanna calls regularly for the Germantown Country Dancers, is an avid dance gypsy, and in her spare time, works to support her dance habit. <p> Joanna is the programmer of this weekend. </td> </tr> <tr> <td width="15%"></td> </td> <td> <hr> </td> <td width="15%"> </tr> </table> <center> <br> <img src="leaf4.jpg"> </center> <p> </p> <br /> </p> <center> </center> <br> <center> <table width="80%"> <caption> <font size=+2> Our amazing musical staff </caption> </font> <tr> <td width="30%" align=center valign=top> <a name="Charlie"></a> <img height="200" src="hancock.jpg" alt="Charlie Hancock"> <br> <em>Charlie Hancock</em> <br> Charlie Hancock (CA), pianist and accordionist, is equally adept playing for English country, Scottish country, contras, and display dancing. He has played for BACDS dances, camps, and balls for 18 years, with occasional gigs further afield, including Pinewoods and the Portland (OR) English ball. He is a member of Bay Area folk ensemble Euphonia, and has recorded with Sylvia Herold, Holly Tannen, and Cathie Whitesides. Infusing jazz, swing, and Irish music, he plays with brilliance, drive, and clarity. </td> <td width="30%" align=center valign=top> <a name="Shira"></a> <img height="200" src="shirakammen.jpg" alt="Shira Kammen"> <br> <em>Shira Kammen</em> <br> Multi-instrumentalist and occasional vocalist Shira Kammen has spent well over half her life exploring the worlds of early and traditional music. A member for many years of the early music groups Ensemble Alcatraz, Project Ars Nova, and Medieval Strings, she has also worked with Sequentia, Hesperion XX, the Boston Camerata, the Balkan group Kitka, the King's Noyse, the Newberry and Folger Consorts, the Oregon, California and San Francisco Shakespeare Festivals, and is the founder of Class V Music, an ensemble dedicated to providing music on river rafting trips. The strangest place Shira has played is in the elephant pit of the Jerusalem Zoo. </td> <td width="30%" align=center valign=top> <a name="Rebecca"></a> <img height="200" src="rebecca2.jpg" alt="Rebecca King"> <br /> <em>Rebecca King</em> <br /> Rebecca King teaches music to hundreds of children in the Sonoma Valley Schools. By night, she plays piano at English Country dances, and in the contradance bands Flashpoint and Luceo. Her recordings include Swinging On The Gate for the Bay Area Country Dance Society, and Farnicle Huggy, a collection of 18th cen. English Country dances. </td> </tr> <tr> <td colspan=3> <hr> </td> </tr> <tr> <td width="30%" align=center valign=top> <a name="Michelle"></a> <img height="200" src="MichelleLevy.jpg" alt="Michelle Levy""> <br /> <em>Michelle Levy</em> <br /> Michelle Levy has been performing on and exploring the possibilities of bowed string instruments for 25 years. She comes from a family of artists; her grandfather, Eliezer, is a multi-instrumentalist who regularly played for folk dances in Tel-Aviv in the 1940's. Currently based in the San Francisco Bay area, California, she is Artistic Director of Redwood Guild of Early Music and is an Artist-In-Residence with Youth In Arts. <p> She has performed internationally with an eclectic variety of ensembles and vocalists, including The Boston Camerata and vocalists Owain Phyfe, Abby Green, Maia Archote, and Moh Alileche. She's been a featured performer at the Vancouver Early Music Festival (2013) with Sequentia & The Elaine Adair Ensemble as well as at the Connecticut Early Music Festival (2010) with Istanpitta Early Music Ensemble, and her new Contra-dance band, TriTonic, recently featured at the New England Folk Festival 2013 (NEFFA). <p> She's also a founding member of contra & English Country Dance band The Whoots and the 'Medieval garageband', Angelhead, featured in Early Music America's Battle of the Early Bands this May 2014 at the Berkeley Early Music Festival. She enjoys playing fiddle for contra and English country dance camps in the woods as well as performing with Shira Kammen's Class V Music, an ensemble dedicated to creating music on whitewater rafting trips. <a href="http://www.MichelleVielle.com">www.MichelleVielle.com</a> </td> </td> <td width="30%" align=center valign=top> <a name="Tom"></a> <img height="200" src="tom.jpg" alt="Thomas Lindemuth"> <br> <em>Thomas Lindemuth</em><br> has been singing since before he could talk. He studied music at UC Berkeley in the early 80's. At the turn of the 2000's, he sang with and conducted Incantessence, an a cappella octet, arranging for the group and producing two albums of vocal music with them. For the past eight years he has sung tenor and played a variety of instruments with California Revels, and since 2013 he is a regular fixture of English dance bands in Berkeley and Palo Alto. In recent years he has explored and enjoyed composition, and is currently producing a CD of English Country Dance-inspired original works co-written and performed with Anne Bingham Goess. Tom believes that music is a fundamental mode of expression for humans -- what is music, if not encoded emotion, after all? -- and seeks to encourage people to find their voice and develop it, whether the literal singing voice or the metaphorical voice of the songwriter. </td> <td width="30%" align=center valign=top> <a name="Jim"></a> <img height="200" src="jimoakden" alt="Jim Oakden"> <br> <em>Jim Oakden</em><br> plays for dancing-lots of kinds of dancing- on a ridiculous array of instruments from accordion to zurna, and has appeared at numerous dance camps throughout the country. Oddly enough, he's also one of the founding members of Sacramento's wacky Ophir Prison Marching Band-which is still going strong after several decades. </td> </tr> <tr><td colspan=3></td></tr> <tr><td colspan=3><hr></td></tr> <tr> <td width="30%" align=center valign=top> <a name="Lyle"></a> <img height="200" src="lyle.jpg" alt="Lyle Ramshaw"> <br> <em>Lyle Ramshaw</em><br> enjoys Scottish country dancing (SCD) and plays backup piano for SCD in Red Thistle Music and in Fiddlesticks & Ivory, with Susan Worland on fiddle in both cases. He strives for dance music with spirit, in the Scottish idiom. He and Susan have played at many events of the San Francisco Branch of the Royal Scottish Country Dancing Society (RSCDS) since Susan moved to the Bay Area, including the Valentine's Ball, the Jean Patrick Memorial Dance, and the Kim McGarrity Memorial Ball at Asilomar. They've also played for events in southern California and the northeast, just recently in Maine. <p /> Check out their recordings at <a href="http://beehaus.com/redthistlemusic/">RedThistle Music</a> And keep in mind that, while English country dancing and contra also have their strengths, only Scottish has strathspeys! </td> <td></td> <td align=center valign=top> <a name="Susan"></a> <br> <em>Susan Worland</em><br /> Susan Worland is a Bay Area violinist and fiddler, expert in many styles of music. As a classical violinist, she plays in the Santa Cruz Symphony and teaches at Starland Music, in Alameda. She is renowned for her expertise in Scottish dance music, and has played for dances and workshops on both coasts and in Canada. Susan serves as Music Director for Red Thistle Dancers and Red Thistle Music. Susan's website is <a href="www.dudka.org">here</a>. <td> <tr> <td> </td> </tr> <tr> <td colspan=3> <hr> </td> </tr> <tr> <td colspan=3> <hr> </td> </tr> <tr> <td colspan=3 align=center valign=top> <a name="Nick"></a> <img height="200" src="nick_cuccia.jpg" alt="Nick Cuccia"> <br /> <em>Nick Cuccia</em> <br /> Nick Cuccia returns as our sound technician. Highly regarded by dancers, musicians, and callers for his high-quality sound work, Nick has handled the board for too many dances, balls, camps, and special events for BACDS, the North Bay Country Dance Society, and the Sacramento Country Dance Society to count during the past decade. </td> <td width="30%" align=center valign=top>   </td> </tr> </table> </center> </div> </CENTER> <P> <HR WIDTH="100%"> <DIV ALIGN=right>Page maintained by <I><A HREF="mailto:winston@slac.stanford.edu">Alan Winston</A></I> <br> </div> </BODY> </HTML> <HR WIDTH="100%"></P> <P>This document last modified: Tuesday, 16-Jun-2015 00:28:57 PDT</P> <P> <HR WIDTH="100%"></P> <A Name="particulars"></A> <HTML> <BODY BGCOLOR="#C6EFF7"> <A Name="particulars"></A> <P><B><FONT SIZE=+2>Particulars</FONT></B> </P> <A Name="prices"></A> <P>Here are the prices for 2015. <ul> <li> $310 - Miller/Morris dorms or camping on-site </li> <li> $320 - Cary Lodge (more modern, smaller rooms, somewhat closer to the action). </li> </li> <li> $270 - Offsite admission (program and meals only). </li> </ul> </br> Click <a href="lodging.htmlx">here</a> for a discussion of the lodging choices. </P> <P>Work-trade arrangements provide provide a discount for doing some chores to make the camp run more smoothly. <br /> Work-trade rates are <ul> <li> $215 - Cary Lodge </li> <li> $205 - Miller/Morris/camping-onsite </li> <li> $165 - Offsite (program and meals only) </li> </ul> <p> Special rates are available for the Saturday-only workshops, or other a la carte options. Please contact Registrar Marilyn Kinch for details: 510.859.4493, bacdsfallfrolick@gmail.com  <P>Unless you're on work-trade, arrive any time after 5:00 pm Friday, October 16. You're on your own for dinner Friday (unless you're on work-trade setup, in which case there will be pizza and salad or equivalents provided, or on staff, in which case there'll be Chinese food or something at the staff meeting); there are many excellent restaurants in Santa Cruz and some good places in Aptos. The welcome dance party begins at 8:00 pm. This will be preceded at 7:15 by an intro to English dance session in the dining hall (with nationally-known ECD leader Alan Winston, music by Clara Stefanov-Wagner and David Mostardi) for those who need an intro or refresher, or just want more dancing. Food and dorm-style lodging are provided, along with all kinds of country dance, singing, and musical fun, until the farewell dance party ends at 4:30 pm Sunday. <P> <HR WIDTH="100%"> <DIV ALIGN=right>Page maintained by <I><A HREF="mailto:winston@slac.stanford.edu">Alan Winston</A></I></DIV> </BODY> </HTML> <HR WIDTH="100%"> <DIV ALIGN=right> Page maintained by <I><A HREF="mailto:winston@slac.stanford.edu">Alan Winston</A></I> </DIV> <DIV ALIGN=right><A HREF="fwfaq.htmlx">Fall Weekend FAQ</A></DIV> <DIV ALIGN=right><A HREF="http://www.bacds.org">BACDS Home page</A></DIV> <DIV ALIGN=right><P>This document last modified: Tuesday, 16-Jun-2015 00:28:57 PDT Accesses: </BODY>