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CDSS News Spring 2015 Issue
MASTHEAD
LETTERS AND ANNOUNCEMENTS
COLUMNS
Balance and Sing (Store Update)- Yoga for Dancers: Love Your Hips and They'll Love You Back, by Anna Rain
- Group Corner: Do You Know How-to....?, by Jeff Martell
- CDSS Sings: Traditional Song in Maine, by Pam Weeks (with the song The Lumberman's Alphabet)
Web Extra: The Lumberman's Alphabet sung by Pam Weeks
ARTICLES
- 15 Things You Can Do to Celebrate the Centennial
- Centennial Tour — Coos Bay, OR
- Ten Reasons Not to Book, by Eric Engles
- Local Dance Finds Fundraising Solution, by Flora Chamlin
- Sturtevant—A Hike-in Dance Camp, by Carol Ormand
- Web Extra: Jocelyn's Cookie Recipes
- CDSS Traveling Exec Samples Kentucky Dance and Song in Louisville, by Jenny Beer
- Web Extra:Good Ideas from Louisville
DANCE
- Four Have Sprung, by Yoyo Zhou
POEMS
- Dance Floor, by Kelli Perkins
- Fiddle Camps, by Dudley Laufman
LAST PAGE
CDSS News Winter 2014-2015 Issue
MASTHEAD
LETTERS AND ANNOUNCEMENTS
COLUMNS
- Balance and Sing (Store Update)
- CDSS Sings — Sacred Harp and Community, by Sharon McKinley
- Yoga for Dancers: Keep Practicing — Release Attachment to Immediate Results, by Anna Rain
ARTICLES
- Director's Report: Art Exists to Serve Communities, by Rima Dael
- Celebrate the Joy — Centennial Updates
- Centennial Tour — Halifax, Nova Scotia
- Farewell, I Must Be Gone, by Emma Breslow
- Community Dance Works Wonders for Veterans with PTSD and Brain Injuries, by Deborah Denenfeld and Jean Borger
Web Extra: Traditional Dance for Soldiers with Post Traumatic Stress Disorder, by Deborah Denenfeld (Summer 2011 CDSS News)
- Ferry Boat Contra Dance, by David Means
- Contra Dancing Comes to Paris, by John Sweeney
Web Extra: Tune notation by John Krumm
DANCE
- Box the Ocean, by by Madame Padovan's School of Dance, a.k.a. 10-12 year olds' class at CDSS Week at Timber Ridge
LAST PAGE
CDSS News Fall 2014 Issue
CDSS News Fall 2014 Issue
Masthead
Letters and Announcements
Columns
- Balance and Sing (Store Update)
- Group Corner - Talent Buying and Touring Acts, by Jeff Martell
- Yoga for Dancers: Open the Shoulders, Open the Breath, by Anna Rain
Web Extra: Yoga for Dancers: Opening the Shoulders by Anna Rain (from the Spring 2010 issue of CDSS News)
- CDSS Sings — And When I Rise, by Bob Walser
Web Extra: Hear the three singers Mia Bertelli, Suzannah Park, Becky Wright)
Web Extra: Read the three tune notations
Articles
- 2015 Camps — A Letter from the CDSS Board President, by David Millstone
- Celebrate the Joy — Centennial Updates
- Centennial Tour — Fiddlefern Country Dancers in Owen Sound, ON
- What We Believe — Building Family, by Rima Dael
- How to Photograph a Contra Dance, by Doug Plummer
- ContraResolution — A Free Dance for Beginners, by Loren Shlaes
- Mentors — Allan Block, by Jim Morrison
Dance
- Heavenly Bodies, by Al Green
Last Page
CDSS News Spring 2014 Issue
CDSS News Spring 2014 Issue
Masthead
Letters and Announcements
Columns
- Balance and Sing (Store Update)
- Yoga for Dancers - Resting by Anna Rain
- News from Canada — Dancing with Style Workshop
- CDSS Sings — Black Jack Davey
Web Extra:
Audio MP3: Black Jack Davey by Sally Rogers from her recording We'll Pass Them On
Articles
- CDSS — A National Arts and Education Organization (Director's Report)
- Community100 and CDSS's Centennial Tour
- Book Review — The Shenandoah Harmony
- Madison's Tuesday Night Dances — Fostering Talent for More Than Twenty Years
- Traveling Execs — Iowa, November 2013, and Pennsylvania, February 2014
Dances
Web Extras:
Videos: See the dance on YouTube —
- http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qHscaBxLW5c (with Firecloud and Lynn Ackerson)
- http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LrQcayS9CrM (Preview) (with Perpetual Emotion and Susan Petrick)
Poems, Old and New
- Hands Four, by Steven Howland
- The Ballad of William Syacamore, by S. V. Benét
- Contra Dancers, by Harvey J. Gardner