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In This Issue
- Balance and Sing (Store Update)
- Letters and Announcements
- CDSS—A National Arts and Education Organization, by Rima Dael
- Community100 and CDSS’s Centennial Tour
- Book Review—The Shenandoah Harmony, by Brendan Taaffe
- Madison’s Tuesday Night Dances―Fostering Talent for More Than Twenty Years, by Carol Ormand
- News from Canada―Dancing with Style Workshop, by Jo Young
- Yoga for Dancers—Resting, by Anna Rain
- Traveling Execs: Iowa, November 2013; Pennsylvania, February 2014, by Gaye Fifer and David Smukler
- Paying It Forward: CDR’s Matching Scholarships, by Lisa Brown
- Poems, Old and New: “Hands Four,” by Steven Howland; “The Ballad of William Sycamore,” by S. V. Benét; “Contra Dancers,” by Harvey J. Gardner
- Laura’s Third Quarter-Century, a dance, by Bob Stein
- Mad, Mad World, a dance, by Martha Wild
- CDSS Sings―“Black Jack Davey,” or Ballads: Alive, Well, and Changing, by Sally Rogers
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In This Issue
- Balance and Sing (Store Update)
- Letters and Announcements
- Connecting the Dots with Tools and Support (Director’s Report), by Rima Dael
- Behind the Beat (a poem), by Dudley Laufman
- On Open Stages, by Luke Donforth
- Cascade Promenade―A Northwest Dance Phenomenon, by Gordy Euler
- News from Canada―Finding My Tribe and Bringing It Home, by Janice Ferri
- The Way It Is Is the Reason I Started Doing This Stuff in the First Place, by Peter Siegel
- Yoga for Dancers—Thumbs, Wrists, Shoulders and a Postural Epidemic, by Anna Rain
- The Boys of Urbana, a dance, by John Coffman
- CDSS Sings―Imagining “The Last Words of Copernicus,” by Jesse P. Karlsberg
- Obituaries: Allan Block, Bertha Humez Hatvary, Louis/Louisa Jo Killen
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In This Issue
- Balance and Sing (Store Update)
- Letters and Announcements
- Outreach Reaching Out, by Linda Henry
- “Delightfully Consumed”—How Music and Dance Took Over Glen and Judi Morningstar, as told to Caroline Batson
- Putting on “Techno” Contra Dances, by Will Loving
- Catapulting Upward, by Luke Donforth
- Spreading Our Wings to Fly, by Mary Wesley
- Yoga for Dancers—Listen to Your Knees, by Anna Rain
- CDSS Sings―See, See, the Cape’s in View, by Natty Smith
- Fooling the Flirt, a contra dance, by Rob Harper
- Obituaries: Wayne Batcheler, Philip A. Zimmerman, Bernard Chalk, by Rob Harper
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In This Issue
- Balance and Sing (Store Update)
- Letters and Announcements
- Will You Join Me? (Director’s Report), by Rima Dael
- CDSS Annual Board Meeting 2013, by David Chandler
- Empty Bowls Contra Dance, by Michael Baird; photos by Christa Torrens and Robert Unetic
- “Just dance and love what you’re doing:” Contra Dancing at the University of Oklahoma, by Miranda Arana
- Teaching English Country Dancing in China, by Grigsby Wotton
- Yoga for Dancers—Next Level of Knee Care, by Anna Rain
- What’s in a Name?, by Jody Kruskal
- Quote of the Month, by Tobias Smollett
- Fostering Traditions, a dance, by Gary Roodman; tune by Jonathan Jensen
- News from Canada—Fiddling in BC, by Rosemary Lach
- Out the Buckhorn Way, a tune, by Leonard Sexsmith, translated by D. Lapp
- CDSS Sings (new song column), by Lorraine Hammond
- Sail Away Ladies, a song, traditional; tune notation by Kate Barnes
- Voyager, a dance, by Luke Donforth
- Obituaries: Michael Blanford, Helene Cornelius, Suzanna Spiese
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In This Issue
- Balance and Sing (Store Update)
- Letters and Announcements
- Catalyst and Confluence (Director’s Report), by Rima Dael
- CDSS Exec Travels, by Jill Allen and Jenny Beer
- A Feast of Song—Attending the First Annual Youth Traditional Song Weekend, by Emma Schneider
- Talking About…Money, by Brendan Taaffe
- Growing the Dance Community via a Wiki, by John Nash
- News from Canada—Contra Dancing Has Blown Downwind to Nova Scotia, by Dottie Welch and Eliza West
- Yoga for Dancers—Cranky Knees and Long Quads, by Anna Rain
- Chinese New Year, a dance, by Chris Page
- The Mountain Dance Trail Preserves Appalachian Square Dancing, by
- Country Dancers of Rochester Teach History with Pleasure, by Becky Hill
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In This Issue
- Balance and Sing (Store Update)
- Letters and Announcements
- Director’s Report, by Rima Dael
- President’s Report, by David Millstone
- “Come Sound His Praise Abroad”—Sacred Harp Singing Across Europe, by Jesse P. Karlsberg
- Dancing the Dance, an essay, by Tom Webb
- Yoga for Dancers—“Shoulders Back…” and So Much More, by Anna Rain
- “Good Morning, Michigan!”—Henry Ford, Benjamin Lovett and Lovett Hall, by Rick Szumski
- A Lesson from Scottish Country Dancing, a poem, by Jamie Tanner
- CDSS Camp Scholarship Recipients for 2012, by Linda Henry
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In This Issue
- Balance and Sing (Store Update)
- Letters and Announcements
- Three Years and Counting—The CDSS Centennial, by Rima Dael
- Meet George Fogg, CDSS Lifetime Contributor 2012, by Nikki Herbst
- News from Canada—Sixteen Years of Being Voted onto the Island, or The Toronto Island Dance, by Bev Bernbaum
- Dancing Between the Lines—Midwest Leadership Conference, by Linda Henry
- Dancing in New Zealand, by Gaye Fifer
- For the Further Improvement of Dancing—A Weekend of English Country Dance and Music, by Karen Barrett
- Poem: Swinging, by Harvey J. Gardner
- A Musical Tour of Montréal, by Susan Jaster and Ishmael Stefanov-Wagner
- Tune and Dance: Salt of the Earth, by Orly L. Krasner
- Tune and Dance: Trip to Erskine, by Robert E. Jamison
- Round: Eurythmie, by Antonio Caldara; collected by Sol Weber
- Round: Perfect Light, by Joseph Franz Haydn and Sarah Williams; collected by Sol Weber
- Obituaries: Wesley Brown, Mike Head, Angela and Nigel Kilby, Bob Parker, Betty Ann Sather
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In This Issue
- Balance and Sing (Store Update)
- Letters and Announcements
- The Power of Giving, by Nancy Boyd and Sanna Longden
- Recent CDSS Outreach Grants
- Showing Off, Growing Up, by Julia Wise
- Dance Local!, by Dragan Gill
- Community—The Exec Goes North…, by Mary Louise Chown and Sue Staunton
- …and then West, by Marie Dalton-Meyer
- Bob Dalsemer—A Life of Music and Dance, interviewed by Brad Foster
- Yoga for Dancers: Twists for Spinal Freedom, by Anna Rain
- Writing Dances—A Conversation with Erik Hoffman, by Evo Bluestein
- Folk Dancing by Erica M. Nielsen, reviewed by Tony Parkes
- News from Canada: Hamilton, Retooling for Dance Prosperity, by Les Francey, Ben Bolker, and Tara Bolker
- Swan’s Island Community Dance, by Kate Webber
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In This Issue
- Balance and Sing (Store Update)
- CDSS Is Listening, by Deb Jackson
- Letters and Announcements
- “More Dancing!”, by Lynn Ungar
- Library Holds Past and Future, by Pat MacPherson
- Chesapeake Dance Weekend Celebrates Thirty Years, by Joel Bluestein
- Choosing Dances for Older Adults, by Judy Chaves
- We Are Not Alone, by Linda Henry
- News from Canada: Mayne, the Little Island that Dances, by Lael Whitehead
- Dance Series + Lower Fees + Youth = Dance Series, by Jens Dill
- Song: Devotion Waltz, by Eric D. Shaw
- Dance: Augusta Heritage Reel, by Hilton Baxter, Pamela Moe, Susannah Gal, and Walter Gal
- Tune: Elkins, by Larry Unger and Eden MacAdam-Somer
- Dance and Tune: Another St. George’s Day, by Larry Stout
Thanks to the Massachusetts Cultural Council for their generous support.