26 Dec
2008
26 Dec
'08
8:27 p.m.
When reading this, the thought occurred to me that with this dance, you folks were
returning to the original English Country Dance roots of contra, where all the tunes and
dances were meshed so that when the music began, everyone just knew the moves and
performed them. Interesting! The magical feeling Will reports makes me wonder where our
dance form will go next...
Happy new year, everyone.
Tina Fields
Will Loving wrote,
Now here?s the magical part: You have an entire hall
of
dancers, three sets,
standing in long wavy lines ready to balance. It?s
completely quiet. Becky
Tracy starts playing the introduction on her fiddle and 16
beats later, you
hear 100+ bodies balancing right, balancing left, and then
sliding (ROM) to
the right ? all with no talking and no calls, just the
sound of the music
and everyone dancing in unison. And it continued from there
and was repeated
throughout the night with each new dance.