BACDS Spring Fever Dance Weekend
March 18 - 20, 2011
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BACDS Spring Fever Dance Weekend March 18 - 20, 2011 |
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Known for her flowing contras and fast-moving, exciting squares,
Kathy Anderson is a strong
advocate of well taught, clearly called squares and contras. She has brought her enthusiastic style to dancers across the US,
Canada, and Europe, and has long been a favorite caller at dances and dance camps on the West Coast. Her smooth vocal delivery
and repertoire of quirky contras and high-energy squares make for a fun, challenging dance experience.
More recently, she's added English Country Dance to her repertoire of
talents. Kathy has been calling and writing dances since 1982. She was introduced to squares and contras as a player of old-time banjo and piano music, and soon progressed from dancing to calling. Dances Kathy has written include Carmen's Hat, The Deep Well, The Long Road, Southern Nights, Swing Into Matrimony, and Weave the Line. |
| Scott Higgs began dancing in college, and started teaching soon
thereafter (when the knowledgeable dancers graduated!). For 25 years he
has traveled the country (25 states and 6 foreign countries) calling for
contras and English country dances. Dancers characterize Scott's contras
as "high-energy" and "swingy." His English dance programs span the
spectrum from exuberant to elegant. Scott has composed dozens of dances, and served as President of the Germantown Country Dancers. His first booklet of dance compositions, Early One Morning, appeared in 1995. Dances from that collection have been performed across the U.S. and Europe, and reprinted in anthologies in the U.S. and the U.K. In recent years, Scott has led weeklong workshops at Pinewoods, Buffalo Gap, Mendocino, Ashokan, and Mainewoods Camps. From 2004-2006, CDSS hired Scott to design and lead special intensive courses for English Dance Leaders. In 2007 and 2008, Scott was Program Director for English American Week at Pinewoods. Scott's latest enthusiasm: Renegade Morris, now entering its fourth season of high-energy dancing. |
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Contra Sutra plays for Contra and English dances, and always to thunderous applause. Based in the Pacific Northwest, Contra Sutra features members of KGB, the Syncopaths, and Lift Ticket. They play tunes original and traditional, with a hearty dose of groove and the odd pop-folk vocal. Dave Bartley plays the fretted things like guitar, mandolin, cittern; Ryan McKasson adds the fiddle and viola; Marni Rachmiel fills the air with windy things like flute, sax, and piccolo; while Russell S provides percussive rhythms. |
| The Latterday Lizards are a New England based dance band featuring a trio of musicians fervent with the desire and talent to ignite flames under dancing feet. With a wide ranging and hopelessly eclectic repertoire including everything from Irish and Scottish traditional jigs and reels to Balkan, blues and swing tunes (often juxtaposed next to each other) the Latter Day Lizards bring excellent musicianship, playfulness, drama and unrelentingly infectious rhythm to their dance performances. With Peter Barnes on piano, guitar and flute, Bill Tomczak on clarinet, sax and drum and Dave Langford on guitar and fiddle, they blend swing, rock-and-roll and jazz influences with traditional foot-stomping dance music to make an innovative, spontaneous and rhythmically inflammatory sound. Shared among all the Lizards are decades of experience in getting people's pulses racing and feet moving. |
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and rounding out our staff...
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Sam Weiler, in addition to his programming duties, will present a special "no prompting" session of English Country Dancing to delight newcomer and old hand alike. |
If singing is your thing, then Doug Olsen of Oak, Ash & Thorn is your guy. Doug will be leading singalongs and showing your vocal chords just how much fun they can have. |
Yael Schy, known for her unique sense of fun, gives us a taste of "swing fever" for the weekend. |
