19 Mar
2012
19 Mar
'12
11:16 a.m.
On Mar 19, 2012, at 10:22 AM, David Millstone wrote:
* And then there are the two whole separate worlds of
"international" folk dancing and "AngloAmerican" folk dancing ... and
why don't their two large populations even know each other? It's as if they were
on different planets.
I'm happy to say I helped organize the first shared evening for Princeton's contra
and international folk dance communities this past January. (Both groups have been
flourishing in the same town for decades.) We had a great 9-piece band, an hour of contra
dancing (which I led), followed by the same band playing several international tunes,
followed by lots of interntational folk dance to recorded music. It was a very well
attended evening, and people on both sides of the "divide" (which I hope is
diminshing) enjoyed it a lot.
If there's an opportunity to try this in your town, I urge you to!
Richard