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Country Dance & Song Society > Publications > Read > Online Library > The Country Dancer Archives

The Country Dancer Archives

  • The Country Dancer Volume 26, 1965-1966 Volume 26, 1965-1966

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    Table of Contents:

    • Editorial
    • Theatre Benefit
    • “Fifty Years On”
    • Voyager Trio Embarks
    • Where the Action Is
    • Chestnut
    • The Nibs and Jean New World Reel
    • An (Urban) Folksinger’s Almanac
    • The Golden Jubilee Year
    • In Which a Historic Discovery is Reported
    • News from All Over
    • In Memoriam
    • Boston Centre’s Own Jubilee
    • Frank Proffitt Memorial
    • Births and Marriages
    • Folk Music Ambassador
    • Book and Record Reviews
    • A Thank You to Many
    • A Plea from the Top
  • The Country Dancer Volume 25, Winter 1964-65 Volume 25, Winter 1964-65

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    Table of Contents:

    • Calendar of CDS Events
    • Marriages and Births
    • Golden Jubilee
    • The Buffalo Dance at San Felipe
    • Mall Peatly
    • A Union for Folksingers and the Teaching of the Folk Guitar
    • Second Impressions
    • The Proper Victorians
    • The Singers Write
    • Direct Line at Hudson Guild Farm
    • C.DS. Performances
    • “Newcastle” at Newcastle
    • Center News
    • Book and Record Reviews
    • Acknowledgements
  • The Country Dancer Volume 24, Summer 1964 Volume 24, Summer 1964

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    Table of Contents:

    • Calendar of Events
    • Marriages and Birth
    • A Gallimaufry of Gambols
    • History through Song and Ballad
    • CDS — World’s Fair Performance
    • The Baron of Brackley
    • Center News
    • News from All Over
    • Acknowledgements
    • Deaths
  • The Country Dancer Volume 23, Winter 1963-64 Volume 23, Winter 1963-64

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    Table of Contents:

    • Calendar of Events
    • Marriages and Births
    • Banjo Styles — Part 2
    • Sword Dancing in Hawaii
    • John Fitzgerald Kennedy
    • Indian Dances
    • Welcome to Pittsburgh Center
    • My Mother Bid Me
    • Pinewoods 1963
    • John Powell
    • Acknowledgments
    • New York World’s Fair
    • New York Performances by CDS
    • Center News
    • The Pinewoods Patient (A Poem)
    • Deaths
    • Book and Record Reviews
  • The Country Dancer Volume 22, Summer 1963 Volume 22, Summer 1963

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    Table of Contents:

    • Calendar of Events
    • Acknowledgment
    • A Kennedy Evening
    • Twenty-four Hours Ashore
    • Benefit
    • Get-away Day on Staten Island
    • Pinewoods Scholarship Fund
    • Louise Chapin
    • The McPeake Family are Unique!
    • International Folk Music Council
    • Dancing at the White House
    • Banjo Styles
    • The Bonny Lass of Fyvie O
    • New York World’s Fair 1964-1965
    • Hindman Dancers at Spring Festival
    • Educational TV and Radio
    • The False Young Man
  • The Country Dancer Volume 21, Winter 1962-63 Volume 21, Winter 1962-63

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    Table of Contents:

    • Calendar of Events
    • Marriages and Births
    • The Pipe and Tabor
    • Tour of the Berea Country Dancers
    • Little Sweetheart — words and music
    • An Evening of Folk Music
    • Pinewoods Chamber Music Week 1962
    • 1962 Christmas Festival
    • In Memoriam
    • Center News
    • Welcome
    • Christmas Ceremonies
    • Book Reviews
    • Whaling Ship Days
    • Record Reviews
  • The Country Dancer Volume 20, Summer 1962 Volume 20, Summer 1962

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    Table of Contents:

    • Calendar of Events
    • Marriages and Births
    • Harmonizing Pentatonic Folk Songs
    • English Folk Dance Festival
    • Douglas Kennedy
    • Jack Langstaff Concert
    • The Folk Art Committee
    • Dancing on the Green
    • Latin American Tour
    • Morris Dancing is For All Ages
    • In Memoriam
    • Labanotation: A Trip to Paris
    • 36th Annual Spring Festival
    • Spring Weekend
    • Welcome
    • New York Activities
    • Center News
    • Sharp’s Arrangements to Appear for Guitar
    • Book Reviews
    • Record Review
    • CDS Sales Department
  • The Country Dancer Volume 19, Winter 1961 Volume 19, Winter 1961

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    Table of Contents:

    • Calendar of Events
    • Marriages and Births
    • A Christmas Ceremony
    • From London (England)
    • The Kennedy Tour
    • Folk Dance and Royal Ballet
    • Fourteenth Annual Conference of the IFMC
    • Nottingham Swing
    • Pinewoods 1961
    • Five Gold Badge Awards
    • Mr. Kennedy’s Report of the Awards Presentations and the Citations
    • Style in Dancing: II
    • Headquarters Area: New York Activities
    • October Weekend
    • Legend of Laikonick
    • Center News
    • Book Reviews
    • Record Reviews
    • Washington Irving Saw It Too!
    • CDS Sales Department
  • The Country Dancer Volume 18, Summer 1961 Volume 18, Summer 1961

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    Table of Contents:

    • Calendar of Events
    • Marriages and Births
    • Two Worlds of Folk Music
    • Ranch House Reel — A “New” Dance
    • Labanotation Defined
    • On Playing Recorder Music
    • Recorder Playing in Holland
    • Spring Dance Programs in Schools
    • Spring Weekend
    • 35th Annual Spring Festival
    • The Friends of Old Time Music
    • The Musical Cock and Other Nonsense
    • Dr. R. Kenworthy Schofield
    • Dancing on the Green
    • Festival Time
    • The Mountain Folk Festival, Berea, KY
    • Center News
    • Square and Folk Dance Events
    • Pittsburgh Party
    • John Barleycorn
    • Book Reviews
    • Record Reviews
    • CDS Sales Department
  • The Country Dancer Volume 17, Winter 1960-61 Volume 17, Winter 1960-61

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    Table of Contents:

    • Calendar of Events
    • Marriages, Births, Engagement
    • A Long Road — And Its Turnings
    • Jack-in-the-Green
    • D’ye Ken John Peel
    • The Kennedys’ Visit
    • Dancers not Tourists!
    • Summer Folk Dancing
    • Four Seasons Consort
    • In Memoriam
    • English Dancing in the Green Mountains
    • C.D.S. Christmas Festival, 1960
    • October Weekend
    • Dancing on the Green
    • Nonsense Refrains in Folk Song
    • Pinewoods Parings, 1960
    • Map of Pinewoods
    • Book Reviews
    • From Christchurch Bells to Jingle Bell Rock
    • Center News
    • Dance Doings in New York
  • The Country Dancer Volume 16, Spring 1960 Volume 16, Spring 1960

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    Table of Contents:

    • Calendar of Events
    • Marriages and Births
    • The Music of Cecil Sharp
    • Appalachian Visit
    • The Matachines
    • Cecil Sharp in the Mountains
    • Spring Weekend
    • Engagement
    • Black Jack Davy
    • Pinewoods 1959 Folk Music and Recorder Week
    • Folk Arts Program at Hindman
    • Spring Festival
    • International Folk Music Meeting
    • Cecil Sharp Centenary Folk Song and Music Program
    • Book Reviews
    • Congratulations
    • An Old Time Caller
    • Folk Music Afternoon
    • Kitty O’Lynn Consort Concert Headquarters Area, New York Activities
    • Center News
    • C.D.S. Sales Department
  • The Country Dancer Volume 15, Winter 1959 Volume 15, Winter 1959

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    Table of Contents:

    • Calendar of Events
    • Marriages and Births
    • Cecil Sharp — Centennial Year Celebration
    • And to you our Wassail too
    • Playford Puzzle
    • What’s in a Name
    • A President Leads a Christmas Procession
    • If You Can Walk You Can Dance
    • October Weekend
    • A Rigged Country Dance Quiz
    • Sword Dance Costume
    • On Organizing a Country Dance Group
    • Recorder News — What’s Playing
    • Dancing on the Green
    • Center News
    • I Remember Pinewoods
    • The Four Seasons Consort
    • In Memoriam
    • Welcome — to new Affiliated Group
      • The Miami Valley Folk Dancers
    • Some Notes on the Language of Folk Song
    • Record Review
    • C.D.S. Sales Department
  • The Country Dancer Volume 14, Spring 1959 Volume 14, Spring 1959

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    Table of Contents:

    • Calendar of Events
    • Births
    • Spring in Folk Custom – Douglas Kennedy
    • Visits and Workshops
    • H.R.H. The Princess Margaret
    • Fairfield Fancy Contra – Dick Forscher
    • C.D.S. Theater Benefit
    • Morris Dance Costumes
    • Square and Folk Dance Events
    • Center News
    • Berea Christmas School
    • C.D.S. Families
    • Folklore Conference in Rumania
    • Inspiration from the Hey?
    • Ralph Vaughan Williams Memorial
    • Engagement
    • Frank Warner at Pinewoods
    • Recorder News: What’s Playing
    • A Trip to Paris
    • History of the CDS (part 4)
    • In Memoriam
    • New York Activities
    • Ballads, Songs, and Snatches
    • Other Reviews
    • Leap Frog
    • Suggestions Invited
  • The Country Dancer Volume 13, 1958 Volume 13, 1958

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    Table of Contents:

    • Calendar of Events
    • Marriages and Births
    • Worchepe ye Seynt Nicholas
    • 1958 Pinewoods Photograph Contest
    • Prize Winning Photographs
    • Pinewoods Impressions 1958
    • History of the CDS (part 3)
    • Morris Dance Costumes
    • The Glencoe Promenade
    • Ritual Dance — Southwest Indian and Morris
    • Living Green
    • Dr. Vaughan Williams — Obituary
    • Center News
    • In Memoriam 1958
    • October Weekend
    • Memorial Gift
    • C.D.S. Records
    • History of a Folk Song Addiction
    • Fall Activities in New York
  • The Country Dancer Volume 12, No. 3 & 4 - Spring 1957 Volume 12, No. 3 & 4 – Spring 1957

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    Table of Contents:

    • CDS Calendar
    • To All Members and Subscribers
    • National Headquarters
    • Unexpected Gifts
    • Dancing in New York
    • Carnegie Hall Performance
    • Letter to the Editor
    • An Unusual Craft
    • Our Traveling Members
    • History of the Country Dance Society of America (part two)
    • Japanese Folk Dancers
    • Congratulations
    • Madison Avenue Window
    • May Day in Padstow
    • New York Festivals
    • New Jersey Festival
    • Our Newest C.D.S. Center
      • British Isles Club
    • 1956 Review — 1957 Preview
    • Tradition
    • Such is Fame!
    • A Cheshire Morris Tune
    • C.D.S. Takes a Booth
    • Book Notes
    • International Folk Music Council
    • Why the Name?
    • Weddings
    • Births
    • Miss Gadde’s Strathspey
    • More About Recorders
  • The Country Dancer Volume 12, No. 2 - Summer 1956 Volume 12, No. 2 – Summer 1956

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    Table of Contents:

    • Pinewoods
    • From Brasstown
    • Dancing in Seattle
    • Square Dance Award
    • History of the Country Dance Society of America (part one)
    • Cleveland Dancers Try Their Skill and Have Fun with a Handicapped Square Dance
    • “Wilderness Road”
    • How to Promote Morris
    • Cambridge Morris Workshop and Country Dance Weekend
    • Arts Festival
    • Notes on Calling and Presentation of Dances
    • Early American Square Dancing?
    • Pretoria – South Africa
    • Folk Dance Celebrations
    • Book Notes
    • A Festival at Rifton
    • The CDS Fund
  • The Country Dancer Volume 12, No. 1 - Spring 1956 Volume 12, No. 1 – Spring 1956

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    Table of Contents:

    • CDS Calendar
    • New Jersey Festival – at Piper’s Fancy
    • New York – End of Season
    • Pinewoods 1956 Version
    • Oranges and Lemons
      • The Dance
      • The Rhyme
    • Summer Dancing in England (pictures)
    • Book Reviews by Evelyn K. Wells
      • The Ballad Book
      • Traditional British Ballads, A Selection
    • Books Received
    • Pennsylvania Dance Party and Picnic
    • Center News
    • Congratulations
    • June Weddings
    • Summer Vacations
  • The Country Dancer Volume 11, No. 4 - Winter 1955 - 1956 Volume 11, No. 4 – Winter 1955 – 1956

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    Table of Contents:

    • National C.D.S. Dates to Note
    • New York
    • Festival Patrons Needed
    • Houseparty Dance Weekend
    • We Point with Pride…
    • Mountain Folk Festival
    • Goodwill Through Folk Dancing
    • Dragons, Lions, Hobby-Horses and Bulls
    • Going to Germany this Summer?
    • Frontier Dance News
    • Circulating Dance Library
    • Our National C.D.S. President (Lily Roberts Conant)
    • News from England
    • Greetings from New London
    • From Cairo, Egypt
    • Center News
    • Correspondence
    • Berea Christmas School
    • More About Recorders
    • C.D.S. National Officers and Council Members
    • Republication of Ballads
  • The Country Dancer Volume 11, No. 3 - Autumn 1955 Volume 11, No. 3 – Autumn 1955

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    Table of Contents:

    • December Special Events
    • In New York
    • Visit to the Southwest – June 1955
    • New Books – To Own and to Give
    • Pinewoods 1955
    • Acknowledgment
    • Ballade of a Man’s World
    • Southeastern Kentucky Regional Folk Festival
    • Boston’s September Weekend
    • Center News
    • Mary Perera
    • New Center
      • The Virginia Reelers
    • Wedding
    • Berea Christmas School
    • Other Christmas Dance Vacations
  • The Country Dancer Volume 11, No. 2 - Summer 1955 Volume 11, No. 2 – Summer 1955

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    Table of Contents:

    • Summer Dance Camps
    • Correspondence
    • National Spring Festival in New York
    • Connecticut Square Dance Festival
    • New C.D.S. Center
      • Community Square Dance Club
    • Kentucky Folk Festival
    • New Jersey Festival
    • Ralph Page and his home state New Hampshire
    • The Contra Master
    • Mountain Folk Festival
    • Correspondence
    • Holiday Hill
    • Summer Vacation Camps and Courses
    • Correspondence (cont)
    • American vs English Versions
    • Book Reviews by Roberta Yerkes — Frog Went A-Courtin’ and A Guide to English Folk Song Collections
  • The Country Dancer Volume 11, No. 1 Volume 11, No. 1 – Spring 1955

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    Table of Contents:

    • Calendar
    • New C.D.S. Center
      • Community Folk Dance Group of Warren, OH
    • Recorder News
    • Opportunities for Visits to Europe
    • The Twain Can Meet
    • Weddings
    • Births
    • Square and Round Dancing in Cleveland
    • Spring Customs
    • Cape Cod Vacation
    • “Wilderness Road” a drama of the southern mountain people
    • Spring Festivals
    • Dancing and Crafts
    • May Festival in Connecticut
    • Caller Available for Travel
    • Center News
    • Folk and Square Dancing — For Old People? Sure!
    • Book Review by Roberta Yerkes — Singing Family of the Cumberlands
    • Summer Vacation Camps and Courses
  • The Country Dancer Volume 10, No. 4 - Winter 1954-1955 Volume 10, No. 4 – Winter 1954-1955

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    Table of Contents:

    • National C.D.S. Dates to Note
    • International Festival of Music and Dance
    • Member Artist
    • Winter Rituals
    • New Film
    • Book News from the Oxford University Press: Jean Ritchie Tells Story of her Singing Family
    • The Twelve Reel
    • Folk Dance Enters Modern Dance Field
    • Impressions of the Ampleforth Sword Dance Play
    • Christmas Festival
    • New Center
      • North Texas Frolic and Dance Club
    • Folk Dance Program at Stuart Robinson
    • The Christmas and New Year Gift Fund
    • Gift from Centers
    • Gift of Records
    • English Dances in Germany
    • Question and Answer
  • The Country Dancer Volume 10, No. 3 - November 1954 Volume 10, No. 3 – November 1954

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    Table of Contents:

    • Calendar
    • Weddings
    • Recorder Classes
    • Christmas Festival in New York
    • Dr. Raymond F. McLain
    • November Celebrations
    • E.F.D.S.S. Director
    • E.F.D.S.S. President
    • Pinewoods Camp
    • Berea Christmas School
    • Cecil Sharp House
      • Photograph of Mural Painting at Cecil Sharp House
    • A Saturday evening with Douglas Kennedy
    • Square Dancing part 2
    • Center News
    • The Ladies Triumph, or Katy’s Rambles
    • “No Knobbly Knees and Few Beards”
    • Cockleboat Jig
  • The Country Dancer Volume 10, No. 2 - Summer 1954 Volume 10, No. 2 – Summer 1954

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    Table of Contents:

    • Welcome to the East
    • Pinewoods — August 8 to 30
    • A May Weekend
    • Ye Olde Maying
    • Our Featured Caller — Al MacLeod
      • Four Leaf Clover
    • We Sing Behind the Plow
    • Kentucky Folk Festival
    • A Place of Fresh Green
    • Denver Festival
    • National Spring Festival in New York
    • Dancing in Baltimore
    • The Dancing English
    • Our C.D.S. Raffle
    • Our C.D.S. Fund
  • The Country Dancer Volume 10, No. 1 - May 1954 Volume 10, No. 1 – May 1954

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    Table of Contents:

    • Calendar
    • “Town and Gown”
    • Words for Square Dance Tune
    • Correspondence
    • Connecticut Square Dance Festival
    • From the E.F.D.S. to the C.D.S., by Eileen Gunnell
    • For Our Music-Makers
    • For Summer Is Icomen In Today
    • Folk Ceremonials
    • Scrambled Dances (answers)
    • Our C.D.S. Families
      • The Shrigley Family
    • Center News
    • Mountain Folk Festival
    • C.D.S. Christmas Fund
    • “Over Tables, Chairs, and Stools”
  • The Country Dancer Volume 9, No. 4 - February 1954 Volume 9, No. 4 – February 1954

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    Table of Contents:

    • Country and Contra
    • Jack in the Green Tunes
    • Calendar
    • A Philadelphian Visits London
    • Our Featured Caller — Dick Forscher
      • Ends Turn In
    • National C.D.S. Event — The First of May — Spring Festival
    • William Wells of Bampton
    • Pinewoods 1954
    • Morris Dancing and Customs Today
    • One Picture May Save a Hundred Words
    • Continuing Tradition
    • Our C.D.S. Families
      • The Rosser Family
    • Benefit Dances
    • Center News
      • John C. Campbell Folk School
      • Berea College, KY
    • Scrambled Dances
    • Correspondence
  • The Country Dancer Volume 9, No. 3 Volume 9, No. 3 – Winter 1953-1954

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    Table of Contents:

    • The Kissing Bough
    • “A little of your treasure”
    • Presentation
    • Mummers’ Plays
    • Sword Dance Plays
    • Country or Contra?
    • Walk In, St. George
    • Center News
    • Dancing in the H.Q. Area
    • Our C.D.S. Families — The Hider Family
    • Weddings
    • Births
    • Book Review by Roberta Yerkes — The Burl Ives Song Book
    • Books Received
  • The Country Dancer Vol. 9 No.2 Volume 9, No. 2 – June 1953

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    Table of Contents:

    • Calendar
    • From Our Mailbag
    • Letter Needed
    • The Compleat Campers
    • Our Featured Caller — Paul Hunt
      • Bully of the Town
    • Phrasing Clarified, by Dick Best
    • National Spring Festival in New York
    • Kentucky Folk Festival
    • Connecticut Square Dance Festival
    • Mountain Folk Festival
    • Mt. Bethel Maypole
    • Twin Sisters
    • Fund Campaign
    • Pinewoods 1953
    • Ah, Pinewoods!
    • Benefits for Fund
  • The Country Dancer Vol. 9 No. 1 Volume 9, No. 1 – Spring 1953

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    Table of Contents:

    • Calendar
    • Weddings
    • Births
    • World Festival of Folk Dance and Folk Song
    • For Madrigal Singers
    • Our Featured Caller — Ralph Refferteller
      • Grapevine Twist
    • Berea Christmas School
    • Letter to May Gadd from Will Kimber
    • The Various Types of Dance Rhythms, by Dick Best
    • New Yorker Profile
    • What to See When In New York
    • Newcastle
    • William Kimber and his Letter
    • National Executive Committee
    • Our Secretaries
      • Mrs. Mireille Backer
      • Miss Pauline Chamberlain
    • Book Review by Roberta Yerkes — Contras Are Fun
  • The Country Dancer Vol. 8 No. 4 Volume 8, No. 4 – Winter 1952-1953

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    Table of Contents:

    • Anniversaries
    • “O! The Thirteenth Day of December-“
    • Our Featured Caller — Phil Merrill
      • Round Just One
    • New Center
      • Potsdam, NY
    • A Mummers’ Play
    • Recording of English Dances with Symbols
    • New C.D.S. Members
    • Births
    • Correction
    • Center News
    • Coming Event
    • Books Received
  • The Country Dancer Vol. 8 No. 3 Volume 8, No. 3 – December 1952

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    Table of Contents:

    • December Special Events
    • Berea Christmas School
    • England 1952
    • O.B.E. for Douglas Kennedy
    • Our Featured Caller — Al Brundage
      • Pick Off Your Corner
    • Photographs
    • Marriages
    • Center News
    • Pinewoods 1952 (pictures)
    • “Jean Ritchie Sings”
    • From Our Mail Bag…
    • National Council Election Results
    • New Center
      • Berea, KY
    • New C.D.S. Members
  • The Country Dancer Vol. 8 No. 2 Volume 8, No. 2 – July-August 1952

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    Table of Contents:

    • Coming Events
    • Pinewoods
    • Boston’s Weekends
    • Our Featured Caller — Frank L. Kaltman
      • Bird in the Cage 7 Hands Round
    • “The Short Course”
    • “Oranges and Lemons”—An Old Rhyme
    • Style in Dancing 4
    • A Philosophical Vision of Square Dancing
    • New Jersey Festival
    • American Folk Lore
    • Stuart Robinson News
    • Impressions
  • The Country Dancer Vol. 8 No. 1 Volume 8, No. 1 – April-May 1952

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    Table of Contents:

    • Book Review by Roberta Yerkes — Dances of England and Wales
    • Pinewoods 1952
    • Coming Events
    • “The Proclamation Made for May,” by Bill Sellers
    • To You Wassail
    • Correspondence
    • Our Featured Caller — Rickey Holden
      • Texas Whirlwind
      • Explanation of Texas Whirlwind Call
    • “American Visitors to England”
    • Kentucky Folk Festival
    • Morris Day in New York
    • Dancing in England
    • New Centers
      • Summer (NJ) Country Dance Group
      • Southeastern Kentucky Regional Folk Festival
      • Ohio County Recreation Club
    • Personalia
    • Center News
  • The Country Dancer Vol. 7 No. 4 Volume 7, No. 4 – December-January 1951-1952

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    Table of Contents:

    • Letter to Members, by Genevieve Shimer
    • Adult Mountain Folk Festival
    • Pinewoods Camp
    • Leaders’ Workshop
    • Pinewoods Personalities
    • Folk Music Week
    • Pinewoods — 1951 and 1952
    • Lexington Workshop
    • Country Dances of Today — Book 2
    • C.D.S. Makes Records
    • Tunes for “La Russe”
    • Dress for Men
    • Center News
  • The Country Dancer Volume 7, No. 3 Volume 7, No. 3 – August 1951

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    Table of Contents:

    • Coming Events
    • Pinewoods
    • Wake Up and Dance
    • Festival, by permission copyright 1951 The New Yorker Magazine
    • Tradition
    • As Others Think We Are
    • Our Featured Caller — Dick Best
      • Between the Sides and Forward Six
      • Comments on the “Call”
    • Festival at Albert Hall
    • Cecil Sharp House Reopens
    • Festival in Yugoslavia
    • New Jersey Festival
    • C.D.S. Dances at A.A.H.P.E.R.
    • The Waltz
    • Kentucky Adult Folk Dance Club
    • A Wonderful Idea
    • New Center
      • The Burnside Folk Games Club
    • Marriage
    • Style in Dancing 3
  • The Country Dancer Volume 7, No. 2 - June 1951 Volume 7, No. 2 – June 1951

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    Table of Contents:

    • C.D.S. Banner
    • Pinewoods 1951
    • New Publication
    • Coming Events
    • Ever-Returning Spring
    • Our Featured Caller — Raymond Smith
      • Elbow Swing
      • Explanation of “Elbow Swing” Call
    • Our Fund
    • Contributions from Festivals
    • We Make the New Yorker
    • Kentucky Folk Festival
    • A New C.D.S. Venture
    • Mountain Folk Festival
    • Philadelphia Folk Festival
    • Director’s 1951 Tours
    • Style in Dancing 2
    • National Folk Festival
    • New Centers
      • The Catholic High School, Fort Madison, IA
      • The Mt. Bethel Dance Group
    • Center News
  • The Country Dancer Vol. 7 No. 1 Volume 7, No. 1 – March 1951

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    Table of Contents:

    • Coming C.D.S. Events
    • Other Events
    • Silver Anniversary Spring Festival
    • Wake Up and Dance
    • Georgie
    • “One of the Lucky Ones,” by Evelyn K. Wells
    • Our Featured Caller — Dick Kraus
      • When the Work’s All Done this Fall
    • For Many as Will
    • National Folk Festival
    • Style in Dancing
    • Douglas Kennedy
    • From our Sales Department
    • Correction
    • Kentucky Folk Festivals
    • Expansion of the Mountain Folk Festival
    • New Centers
      • Guild Hall Country Dance Club
      • Louisville Country Dance Center, KY
      • Media Country Dance Center, PA
    • Center News
  • The Country Dancer, Volume 6, No. 4 - December 1950 Volume 6, No. 4 – December 1950

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    • Coming C.D.S. Events
    • Dancing in Grenoside
    • Violin Teacher
    • Dancing in a Kentucky School
    • Marriages
    • Our Featured Caller — Ed Durlacher
      • My Little Girl
    • Fall Tour
    • Lectures and Concerts
      • Lecture on Folk Music by Maud Karpeles
      • John Langstaff’s Recital
    • Douglas Kennedy
    • Cecil Sharp House in London
    • C.D.S. Fund Campaign
    • From Our Mail Bag
    • Costumes and Dancing
    • Against Competitions
  • The Country Dancer, Volume 6, No. 3 Volume 6, No. 3 – October 1950

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    Table of Contents:

    • Coming C.D.S. Events
    • Northern England Festival
    • New Centers
      • Transylvania College
      • “Squares-Up” Club of Scarsdale, NY
    • New York District Council Activities
    • Square Dance Activities
    • Special Feature — Callers’ Favorite Calls
      • Gents’ Left-Hand Star
      • Our Featured Caller — Louise Chapin
    • Pinewoods Camp 1950
    • Bulletin — Douglas Kennedy
    • Marriages and Engagements
    • C.D.S. Fund
    • First Folk Music Camp at Long Pond
    • Dances from 1450 to 1600
    • From Our Mailbag
    • Center News
  • The Country Dancer Volume 6, No. 2 Volume 6, No. 2 – June 1950

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    • New Centers
      • Gateway School, New Haven, CT
      • Huntington, WV
      • Juilliard School of Music Square and Country Dance Society, New York, NY
      • Sherwood Square and Folk Dance Club, Denver, CO
      • The Potsdam Polka Dots, Potsdam, NY
      • The Adult Festival
      • The Mountain Folk Festival
      • Christmas Country Dance School
    • Handing Down the Little Devils, by Jean Ritchie
    • “It Was This Way”
    • In Charge of the Hoeing
    • Something Going On
    • The C.D.S. Region by Region
    • Special Feature — Callers’ Favorite Calls
      • Jolly Irishmen
      • Our Featured Caller — Harold T. Goodfellow
    • The Ballad Tree
    • Pinewoods Camp
    • Jean Ritchie Sings
    • Mr. John M. Glenn
    • Dance Directory
    • Personalia
    • Festival Dancers
    • News from Centers
    • Benefit parties
  • The Country Dancer Volume 6, No. 1 - Winter 1950 Volume 6, No. 1 – Winter 1950

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    • Pinewoods Camp — Gala Season
    • New Feature — Callers’ Favorite Calls
      • Right Hand Up and Left Hand Under
      • Kitty McGee
    • National Folk Festival
    • An Old Timer
    • Mountain Folk Festival
    • “–Our Revels Now are Ended”
    • Council of Southern Mountain Workers
    • American Square Dances of the West and Southwest, by Lee Owens
    • News of Members
    • Spring Festival
    • The International Folk Music Conference
    • Song as Well as Dance, by John and Nancy Langstaff
    • Thoughts About the Christmas School
    • Bristol Fair
    • Rocky Mountain Folk Dance Camp
    • Party Primer
    • Dance Directory
    • Membership Memoranda
  • The Country Dancer Vol. 5 No. 4 Volume 5, No. 4 – Autumn 1949

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    Table of Contents:

    • Our New Constitution
    • Ye Morrice
    • New Headquarters Office
    • New Centers
      • Essex County Square Dance Group, Glen Ridge, NJ
      • Folk Arts Center of the Country Dance Society of Lexington, KY
    • Abbots Bromley Horn Dance
    • National Executive Committee
    • Set Runnin’ in Eastern Kentucky by Patrick E. Napier
    • Pinewoods 1949
    • Regional Festivals in the Southern Highlands
    • England’s Dances. Folk Dancing To-day and Yesterday by Douglas Kennedy
    • Deer Dancers by May Gadd
    • Christmas Country Dance School — Berea, Kentucky
    • Summer Folk-Dancing in England
    • Regional Festival at Ringgold, Georgia
    • Regional Folk Festival at Hindman
    • Cumberland Regional Folk Festival
    • Christmas Party in New York
    • Labor Day Square Dance Festival at Fairlee, Vermont
    • Some of the Materials Now Available Through the Country Dance Society of America
    • National Folk Festival
  • The Country Dancer Vol. 5 No. 3 Volume 5, No. 3 – Summer 1949

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    • The Country Dance Music (2) by Edward Tatnall Canby
    • The Country Dance Society of America
    • The Mountain Folk Festival for Adults
    • Center News
    • Cleveland Comments
    • Derry Down Derry
    • Recent Events in the Southern Highlands
  • The Country Dancer, Vol. 5 No. 2 Volume 5, No. 2 – Spring 1949

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    Table of Contents:

    • Whitsun Morris by May Gadd
    • Country Dance Music by Edward Tatnall Canby
    • Dance Doings at Haverford
    • At Pinewoods Camp
    • Camp house Porch Scene
    • In Oklahoma by Homer E. Howell
    • Craftsman’s fair at Gatlinburg
    • Book Reviews by Roberta Yerkes
      • Hullabaloo and Other Singing Folk Games
      • Honor Your Partner
      • Raymond Smith’s Square Dance Hand Book
    • Center News
    • Pinewoods Camp, near Plymouth, MA
  • The Country Dancer Volume 5, No. 1 Volume 5, No. 1 – Winter 1949

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    Table of Contents:

    • To the Callers, by Ed Durlacher
    • New Square Dance Book
    • William Kimber
    • Pinewoods 1949
    • Figure Dancing
    • CDS Christmas Party
    • The Christmas Country Dance School
    • Book Review — Grandfather Tales by Roberta Yerkes
    • Mountain Folk Festival
    • National Folk Festival in Saint Louis
    • Annual Conference of Southern Mountain Workers
    • New Country Dancer
    • Let Us Honor Our Partners!
    • Center News
  • The Country Dancer Vol. 4, No. 4 Volume 4, No. 4 – Christmas 1948

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    Table of Contents:

    • La Russe Quadrille
    • Stratford Festival
    • First Impressions of Pinewoods
    • Rocky Mountain Camp
    • Christmas Customs
    • Looking Back
    • A Farewell
    • Fall Tour
    • News from Regions and Centers
    • Stuart Robinson
  • The Country Dancer Vol. 4, No. 3 Volume 4, No. 3 – Summer 1948

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    • Forward Up Six, by Adrian L. Hull
    • Pinewoods Camp
    • Cheyenne Mountain School Dancers
    • Spring Festival…1948
    • Spring General Meeting
    • Coast to Coast
    • Couples Swing and Change Places
    • Sacre Printemps
    • News from Regions and Centers
    • Mountain Folk Festival Diary
    • Book Review — 12 Home Made Square Dances, by Roberta Yerkes
    • Rocky Mountain Folk Dance Camp
  • The Country Dancer, Vol. 4 No. 2 Volume 4, No. 2 – Spring 1948

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    Table of Contents:

    • General Meeting of C.D.S.
    • Hobby Horses, by May Gadd
    • Festival in Edinburgh
    • C.D.S. Spring Party
    • Unnatural Dance, by Douglas Kennedy
    • 1948 C.D.S. Summer Camp
    • The Training of Musicians for Square Dance Music, by R. Duncan Hay
    • Book Review — The Soviet Ballet, by Roberta Yerkes
    • English Dance Records
    • News from Regions and Centers
    • Christmas Country Dance School
    • The Cumberland Reel
  • The Country Dancer, Vol. 4 No. 1 Volume 4, No. 1 – Winter 1948

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    Table of Contents:

    • Six Months in England, by May Gadd
    • C.D.S. Spring Party
    • A Special Contributor
    • Cotswold
    • 1947 Summer Camp
    • Miss Gadd’s Tour Dates
    • Letter from Belgium
    • News from Regions and Centers
    • Annville Institute Regional Festival
    • North Carolina Regional Festival
    • Tennessee Regional Mountain Folk Festival
    • Acknowledgments
    • The Cumberland Square Dance
    • C.D.S. Director on Tour
  • The Country Dancer, Vol. 3 No. 3 Volume 3, No. 3/4 – July 1943

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    Table of Contents:

    • Editorial — Readjustment
    • Louisville Country Dance Institute
    • 1943 Administration Fund
    • The Farewell Party
    • From Our President
    • From the John C. Campbell Folk School
    • English Fairies and Shakespeare, by May Gadd
    • American Country Dancing: Facts and Fallacies, by Mrs. Ella G. Sonkin
    • Mountain Folk Festival, by Elizabeth Watts
    • Youth and the Squares, by Ed. Durlacher
    • A Portrait of Mrs. Storrow
    • Fallacies? by May Gadd
    • May Day at Lees College
    • C.D.S. Festival
    • “I Call Square Dances for the Army, Do You?,” by Lovaine Lewis
    • Do You Play a Recorder?
    • News from Regions and Centers
    • More Grand March Figures
  • The Country Dancer, Vol. 3 No. 2 Volume 3, No. 2 – April 1943

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    Table of Contents:

    • Editorial — Spring Festival? Summer Camp?
    • 1942 Administration Fund
    • Promenade High — Promenade Low, by Howard Cleveland
    • Country Dance Institute in Louisville
    • National Folk Festival
    • Regional Folk Festival, by Marguerite B. Bidstrup
    • A New Center – The Hindman Settlement School
    • Country Dancing with Service Men, by Laurence B. Cairns
    • Hindman — and Recreation, by Pauline Ritchie
    • More About Pinewoods Camp
    • Can This Be Sabotage?
    • News from Regions and Centers
    • More About the Festival
    • Acknowledgments
    • 1943 Administration Fund
    • Letter from England
  • The Country Dancer, Vol. 3 No. 1 Volume 3, No. 1 – December 1942

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    Table of Contents:

    • Editorials
      • Volume Three and a Happy Christmas
      • Enjoinment to Enjoyment
    • Grand March Variations, by Richard Chase
    • Dances of New Hampshire and Vermont, by Naomi Mattuck
    • Impressions of the Summer School 1942, by Margaret Judson
    • New England Folk Festival, by Alexander Hoyle
    • C.D.S. Vice-President
    • The Ballet and the Country Dance, by May Gadd
    • C.D.S. Dancers in the Services
    • New York Christmas Party
    • Subscriptions
    • Leonard Elsmith
    • Administration Fund
    • Christmas School at Berea College, KY
    • Acknowledgment
    • News from Regions and Centers
    • Arrival in Hawaii
    • Book Review — The American Folkways Series, by Roberta Yerkes
    • Addresses
  • The Country Dancer, Vol. 2 No. 4 Volume 2, No. 4 – July 1942

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    Table of Contents:

    • Editorial — The Dancers Take Hold
    • Pinewoods Camp
    • Wartime Recreation
    • The C.D.S. Festival, by Margaret Stanley-Brown
    • Sweet Ellen, by Mary McNair
    • We Have Television Too!, by John Hodgkin
    • May and Dancing in Lexington, by Lovaine Lewis
    • National Folk Festival, by May Gadd
    • News from Regions and Centers
    • Dancing in Baltimore, by L.B. Cairns
    • Two Views of the Mountain Folk Festival, by Beatrice Kane McLain and Frank H. Smith
    • Book Review — English Custom and Usage, by Roberta Yerkes
    • Correspondence
    • National Administration Fund
  • The Country Dancer, Vol. 2 No. 3 Volume 2, No. 3 – April 1942

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    Table of Contents:

    • Editorial — Need of an American C.E.M.A., by Evelyn K. Wells
    • New York General Meeting
    • Music and Dance in England
    • To Square Dance Callers, by Ralph G. Page
    • Television Adapts to Wartime, by May Gadd
    • Traditional and Playford Dances, by Helen Kennedy
    • C.D.S. Spring Festival
    • National Folk Festival
    • The C.D.S. in Wartime, by Margaret Stanley-Brown
    • 1942 Summer Camp
    • Boston Visit
    • Course at Brasstown, N.C.
    • Acknowledgments
    • News from Regions and Centers
    • Goddard College Weekend
    • Square Dance Record
    • Book Review — Western Square Dances
    • From Douglas Kennedy
  • The Country Dancer, Vol. 2 No. 2 Volume 2, No. 2 – January 1942

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    Table of Contents:

    • Editorial – The Arts in Wartime
    • Square Dancing in the Park, by George W. Hibbitt
    • Weekend School in Vermont
    • Television News
    • Thanksgiving by Dancing, by Margaret Stanley-Brown
    • Country Life and Country Dancing, by Douglas Kennedy
    • A Christmas Impression, by Walter Clarke, Jr.
    • Berea Christmas School
    • Acknowledgments
    • Defense Recreation, by May Gadd
    • For Square Dance Callers
    • Gym Classes in Square Dancing, by Claude S. Chadwick
    • News from Regions and Centers
    • Book Review — American Guide Series, by Roberta W. Yerkes
  • The Country Dancer, Vol. 2 No. 1 Volume 2, No. 1 – November 1941

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    Table of Contents:

    • Editorials
      • Volume Two
      • Dancing for Defence by Helen Storrow
    • In England
    • Berkshire Music Center
    • Adventure Into Television, by May Gadd
    • We Went to White Top, by Lovaine Lewis
    • Vermont Folk Festival, by John Gould
    • Come Let Us Sing. What Shall We Sing?, by Olive D. Campbell
    • Recreation Institute at Clarksville, Tennessee, by Frank H. Smith
    • For Square Dance Callers – variation of the Call for the Ocean Wave Quadrille
    • One View of Pinewoods Camp, by Lynn Gault
    • Appointment to the Advisory Board
    • C.D.S. Badge Competition
    • News from Regions and Centers
    • Book Review — Palestine Dances!
    • New York Activities
  • The Country Dancer, Vol. 1 No. 4 Volume 1, No. 4 – May 1941

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    Table of Contents:

    • Editorials
      • English Dance and Song
      • The Country Dancer
      • Summer Dancing
    • Mountain Folk Festival by Frank Smith
    • Cheyenne Mountain School by Evelyn K. Wells
    • British War Relief Benefit
    • Rhythm and the Dancer by Melville Smith
    • Folk Dancing in the Schools by Lucy Madeira Wing
    • Country Dance Society Spring Festival
    • May Party in New York
    • New Haven Center
    • Appointment to Longy School
    • A Square Dance Mural
    • American Legend
    • Book Review — Swing Your Partners
    • News from Regions and Centers
    • The Camp Doctor
  • The Country Dancer, Vol. 1 No. 3 Volume 1, No. 3 – March 1941

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    Table of Contents:

    • Editorial
      • On Festivals by May Gadd
    • C.D.S. Dates to Note
    • Rhythm and the Dancer — Part Two by Melville Smith
    • A Party in Montclair
    • Country Dancing in Ohio by Lynn Rohrbough
    • The C.D.S. 1941 Spring Festival
    • Country Dance and Modern Dance
    • Pinewoods Camp
    • With Virginals and Recorder by Margaret Fitzhugh Browne
    • A Leaders’ Weekend
    • Mountain Folk Festival 1941
    • News from Regions and Centers
    • The Author of “Dancing in Ohio”
    • The Gentleman’s Magazine 1731 – 1907
      • A Trip to Hanover
      • Locking’s Whim
    • Folk Dance Course at Brasstown, N.C.
    • C.D.S. General Meeting in New York
    • History of the Country Dance Society — Part Three by May Gadd
  • The Country Dancer, Vol. 1 No. 2 Volume 1, No. 2 – January 1941

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    Table of Contents:

    • Editorials
      • Folk Dancing and the World Today – Lucy Madeira Wing
      • Dancing in England – May Gadd
      • Autumn Musical Meeting in Boston – Eleanore Hubbard
    • Three Triple Minors — Numbers Two and Three by Frances H. Jackson
    • Rhythm and the Dancer by Melville Smith
    • The Mummers’ Play by May Gadd
    • Christmas Revels in New York – Adrian Hull
    • The Country Dancer
    • Spring Festival
    • New Centers
    • News from Regions and Centers
    • History of the Country Dance Society — Part Two
    • New York Activities
  • Volume 1 No. 1 - November 1940 Volume 1 No. 1 – November 1940

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    Table of Contents:

    • Editorials
      • The Country Dancer
      • The Second Quarter Century
      • From the Society’s President by Helen Storrow
      • Cecil Sharp to 1940 by John M. Glenn
    • News From England
    • “You’re—A Pretty Good Dancer, Sally Ann,” by Evelyn K. Wells
    • Pinewoods Camp 1940
    • Teachers Course
    • A Dancing Weekend
    • For Dance Teachers: Three Triple Minors by Frances H. Jackson
    • Center News
    • History of the Country Dance Society, 1915 – 1940 by May Gadd
    • Offer to Centers
    • Future Numbers of the Magazine
    • Illustrations
    • Headquarters Activities in New York
    • Christmas School at Berea

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Isaac BannerIsaac Banner

Isaac Banner (Seattle, WA) has been dancing and calling in the Pacific Northwest for more than a decade. Originally from Saratoga Springs, NY, they grew up surrounded by the music and dance communities of the Greater Adirondacks, regularly volunteering at Caffè Lena and The Dance Flurry.

Seeking community through the folk and American barbershop traditions, Isaac danced his way across the country in 2015 and, since relocating to the west coast, they’ve been passionately involved in creating safe and inclusive dance spaces for dancers of every identity and background. They believe strongly that open, affordable, and accessible dance spaces are fundamental to carrying forward the folk tradition to the next generation of dancers, callers, musicians, and more.

Isaac’s professional background is primarily in online services and digital security, through which they’ve served in a technical capacity to support and organize several events in the Pacific Northwest. When they’re not calling for dances, they can be found writing original choreography, coaching new callers, or making surprisingly convincing chicken noises.

Seth TepferSeth Tepfer

Seth Tepfer (Decatur, GA) first started Scottish country dancing in 1987. Ballroom dancing led to Cajun dancing, which led to contra dancing. From there, Seth started helping run dance events and, in 1997, started contra dance calling.

In the years since, Seth has organized dance weekends (What the Hey, Butterfly Whirl, Atlanta Dance Weekend) and dance weeks (Florida Rhapsody (1997-2001), Bonaire Dance and Dive (2005), Terpsichore’s Dance Holiday (2015-2019), and Rhapsody Adventure in Paxos, Greece (2025). Seth has called dance weekends and dance events across the United States and in Bonaire, Canada, England, Denmark, France, Germany, and Greece.

Seth is passionate about teaching dance leadership. He has taught contra, square, English, and community calling intensives. His website is a valued resource for essays, choreography collections, and thoughts about dance calling.

Seth loves sharing the joy of dance for people who have never danced before, for experienced contra, English, or square dancers. He is excited to work with other leaders to promote dance, music, and song.

Christa TorrensChrista Torrens

Christa Torrens (Bigfork, MT) was volunteering at a Western Massachusetts folk music weekend in 2001 when she wandered onto the contra dance floor—and has been an avid contra and English dancer ever since. It took a few years, but she was eventually willing to give up a little dance time for mic time: Christa started calling contras in 2011 and English in 2021 (online!). She is particularly drawn to the welcoming, community-centered aspect of contra and ECD, and loves that, as a caller as well as a dancer, she can share some of her own dance joy with others.

While Christa has lived—and danced!—in most regions of the US, she has spent the bulk of the last 20 years based in the Mountain West and is grateful to call both the Missoula, MT, and Front Range, CO, dance communities home.

When she’s not dancing, Christa works as an aquatic ecosystem ecologist and ecosystem modeler, occasionally sloshing around in streams, but more often sitting in front of a screen fiddling with code and confronting models with data. She loves being outdoors and spends much of her time hiking, biking, skiing, and simply enjoying wild spaces.

Ellie ShogrenEllie Shogren

Ellie Shogren caught the dance bug early in life, attending her first contra dance at two months old. Decades later, she is still an avid dancer and has served numerous folk communities across the country as staff, crew, board member, and enthusiastic participant.

Originally hailing from Tennessee, Ellie has been fortunate enough to develop folk connections all over the country and overseas, having lived in the South, New England, and the United Kingdom. Ellie and her husband, Ethan, now call the Nebraska/Iowa region home after meeting at a contra dance.

Ellie is honored to serve the CDSS community as a board member in memory of her mom, Chrissy Davis-Camp, who was an influential caller from Tennessee. Both Ellie and her younger sister, Anna Claire, have followed in their mom’s steps; if they are not on the dance floor, you can find them behind the mic calling contra, English, or teaching youth morris and rapper sword.

Because of her parents, Chrissy and Pat, Ellie was taught the importance of community and instilled with a responsibility for inclusion and respect for all through the lense of folk arts. Ellie still carries these important lessons with her as she shares her passion for all things folk.

Sharon GreenSharon Green

Back in 1984-1985, David and Sharon Green had an annus terribilis, a terrible year. In 14 months, they lost all four of their parents. Then in 1988, Sharon found country dancing and refound joy.

Since then, Sharon has danced and called in England, the Netherlands, Japan, Canada, and throughout the United States. She has organized dance weekends and weeks on both coasts and has served on the boards of both the Bay Area Country Dance Society and Country Dance New York. While living in New York, she edited the introductions to three books of dances by her mentor, Fried de Metz Herman. Emulating Fried, Sharon has also choreographed some 40 dances herself.

In 2024, Sharon had the great honor of being chosen to receive CDSS’s Lifetime Contribution Award for her and her household’s work promoting English country dancing. Sharon maintains that it has been her great joy to be part of CDSS, and now in her 80s she is both happy and honored to serve on the board.

Dilip SequieraDilip Sequeira

Dilip Sequeira (Seattle, WA) hails from London and contracted a severe case of the folk dance virus (Scottish variant) while a student in Edinburgh. On escaping Britain for St. Louis in 2003, he discovered the joys of English country dance, and it was only a few short years ago that he found his inner contra dancer, too. He has been calling ECD on the West Coast since 2017 and enjoys working with all levels of dancers, helping them improve their skills and get more out of their dancing.

He is now a recovering software engineer, on a mission to make the English country dance repertoire available to the world.

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