Attracting Younger Dancers: Creating and maintaining a multigenerational dance How can we find youth, incorporate them, and keep them? Getting younger people to attend dances (and keep coming back) seems…
…dance floor, and why? We’ll examine ways to reach out to more diverse populations and how to make a more welcoming dance community for everyone. Bring an anecdote to share…
Working and Communicating with the Band A list of nine tips by Nan Evans and Fred Nussbaum for working with bands for English country dance. From the CDSS News…
Playford’s Dancing Master: The Compleat Dance Guide This is an exhaustive collection, catalogue, and index of all dances published in editions of the Dancing Master, 1651-1728 From Scott Pfitzinger…
Trycontra.com A website of contra dances where you can enter your zip code and it will list dances close by. You can also look at the full list of dances.]…
Addressing Racism as a Dance Community In this short overview, the organizers of Portland Intown Contra Dance acknowledge and explain some of the various Black and African influences on American…
Sharing the Vision: Themes and Practical Ideas for Vibrant Dance Communities A pithy article from Max Newman on the importance of a vision, how to create one and how to…
…and practical advice for teaching traditional country and ritual dance in school settings. This resource is free for CDSS members and is available for purchase through the CDSS Online Store….
…program with instructions for several easy dances, and an annotated bibliography. By Erik Hoffman. This resource is free for CDSS members and is available for purchase through the CDSS Online…
…the next best thing. Thoughtful, thought-provoking, and challenging to teachers at all levels. This resource is free for CDSS members and is available for purchase through the CDSS Online Store….
Thanks to the Massachusetts Cultural Council for their generous support.