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English Country Dancing
Internationally-known caller Michael Barraclough will lead two workshops: first a "crossover" for contra skeptics (we know you're out there) and the second especially for those of us who've already discovered ECD's glorious, complex, elegant charms. Music for both ECD workshops by Notorious!
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Dutch Crossing
Gaye Fifer will weave you through the complex interlocking patterns of this dance, which generates a transcendent sense of accomplishment and community. We'll have a sign-up sheet in the Dining Hall, as this dance requires sets of 16 dancers. Here is a particularly clear video, featuring dancers in color-coded shirts.
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Dancing Despite
Janine Smith will demonstrate how dancers can deal with temporary or permanent incapacities (their own or their partner's) to dance safely and joyfully. BYOB (Bring Your Own Bandanna).
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Intermediate/ Advanced Waltz
Dancers all over the country agree that Gaye Fifer and Wayne Albright are waltz wizards. We'll have two fast-paced instructional workshops, plus leisurely waltzing before breakfast.
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Hambo Workshop
Whether you're trying to learn this challenging dance (often played to start the "second half"), or know it and love the feeling of flying that all that momentum produces, Ted Hodapp and Lynn Baumeister will help with both the basics and finer style points.
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Stuntology
Sam Bartlett has collected "absurd pranks and pointless techniques to amuse yourself, amaze your friends, and annoy everyone else" for 20 years. You'll love these creative responses to boredom.
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Bar Code and Band Width
Ted Hodapp will emcee this year's audience participation Joke Show. 2009 Topics: Walked-into-a-bar jokes and/or Instrument jokes.
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French Mazurka
Ted Hodapp and Lynn Baumeister will teach this charming couples dance, done in 3/4 time. If you'd like a preview, take a look at this YouTube video.
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FootSore
Camp doctor Susan Schmitt will teach you about the 26 bones, 33 joints, 107 ligaments, and 19 muscles and tendons in your poor feet.
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Shape Note Singing
Shape Note Singing on Sunday morning, led by dancers Joni Seidenstein and Adrian Mariano.
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Percussion Workshop
Bring your favorite noisemaker (no, not the cat), and you and Ed Butler of Contrazz can drum up some business.
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Fossil Eyes
Timber Ridge has an exceptional fossil pit. Led by geology professor John Merck and trained paleontologist Jim Riosa, you'll really dig it.
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International Dance
Master sound technician Jamie Platt is a gifted teacher of Eastern European circle dances. He'll put a ring on it (recorded music).
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Juggling 101
Dancer Bill Amos will teach you a better way to keep everything in the air.
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I'm Gored
Camp organizer April Blum will show you how to insert gores in a skirt without tears or bloodshed. Pattern and directions are yours to keep.
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Rounds Singing
Rounds Singing on Saturday morning, led by Steve Bilanow.
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