Family Week at Pinewoods

July 20 - 27, 2013

Program Director

Steve Howe, when not in the CDSS office, dances with and leads practices for That Long Tall Sword and dances with the Marlboro Morris Men (of MA) and the Green Mountain Mummers. His children grew up at Pinewoods and Family Week.

Family Week at Pinewoods

Staff

Kathy Anderson

Kathy Anderson is known for her exciting squares, quirky contras, and swift, clear teaching, and has long been a favorite caller across the U.S., Canada, and Europe. Kathy’s smooth delivery and intriguing repertoire make for a fun and engaging dance experience. She also enjoys initiating new callers into the joys of calling.

Family Week at Pinewoods

Karen Axelrod

Karen Axelrod is highly regarded for her creative piano playing at English, American and Scottish dance events around the country. She is in the band Foxfire, with Daron Douglas. Karen plays accordion with 3rd String Trio, a band that plays old world cafe music. She also plays accordion for Orion Longsword. When not playing music, Karen spends her time managing her dog walking business and coming in last in marathons.

Family Week at Pinewoods

English Dance Week at Pinewoods

Sam Bartlett

Sam Bartlett is an irrepressible mandolin, banjo and guitar player, known to dancers across the country for his fine musicianship and philosophy of stuntology. His original music has been profiled by NPR's All Things Considered and Sing Out! magazine declared him a member of “the rhythm players hall of fame.” The inventor and most distinguished practitioner of stuntology, Sam will amaze and delight us with his latest discoveries. Sam's community art projects bring the whole camp into the creative process. Mr. Bartlett has made large scale paper sculptures and puppets for more than 30 years, from the hills of West Virginia to the public school in Gustavus, Alaska.

http://www.sambartlett.com/

Family Week at Pinewoods

Katy German

Katy German grew up in Berea, Kentucky - a community full of song and dance traditions from Appalachia, England, and Denmark. She was a member of the traveling youth performance team The Berea Festival Dancers, with whom she traveled to Denmark, England, Scotland, and Ireland. Katy's passion is working with youth, inter-generational, and beginning-level dancers. She's been on staff at many family dance weeks, including Pinewoods, Buffalo Gap, Cumberland Dance Week, and Lady of the Lake. She was a member of the CDSS Governing Board from 2002-2007. During her six years in the Chapel Hill area, she helped coordinate the monthly family dances. She now lives in Asheville, NC, singing, teaching polka dancing with Mountain Top Polka Band, and calling family dances in Jonesboro, TN. She remains very involved with Christmas Country Dance School in Berea, as a program adviser, day camp coordinator, and class instructor.

Family Week at Pinewoods

Kalia Kliban

Kalia Kliban has been part of the Bay Area dance community since the mid-80s, performing and teaching morris, longsword, American and English clog and English country dance. She is program director for BACDS's upcoming Fall Frolick weekend and has also programmed BACDS Family Week. Her clear and humorous teaching style has gotten feet tapping at camps and gatherings throughout California and beyond.

Family Week at Pinewoods

Abby Ladin

Abby Ladin grew up immersed in the traditional folk music revival of the ‘70s on the East coast. She was clogging by the age of six, performing with her sister Evie by age 10 and touring nationally at 18 with the renowned dance and music company Rhythm in Shoes. 20 years later she continues to teach the fundamentals and possibilities of clogging to all who crave rhythm in their feet.

Family Week at Pinewoods

Kappy Laning

Kappy Laning enjoys teaching English ritual dances (rapper, longsword, border morris and garland) to children, teens and adults. She has been inspiring her class participants to work together and create exciting performances at many dance camps over the last 15 years, and in local MD schools over the past 5 years. Kappy has been CDSS's WV Camp Director since 1998.

Family Week at Pinewoods

CDSS at Timber Ridge

Anna Mayberry

Anna Mayberry grew up in the folk music and dance community in Toronto, Ontario. The summers of her youth were dabbled with family weeks at Ogontz and Pinewoods, her last as a 15 year old when she assisted the Pied Piper. This spring, she will graduate from Concordia University in Montreal with a BFA in Contemporary Dance. She is currently working on various dance projects in Montreal, writing and recording neo-folk music, and playing with a punk band in Toronto.

Family Week at Pinewoods

John Mayberry

John Mayberry, from Toronto, Ontario, went to his first dance at two weeks old, carried in a basket. His love of dance, music, performance and craft has led to a career including carpentry, performance, writing, teaching, directing and almost everything else. He is the Fool of the Toronto Morris Men, an accomplished traditional singer, an experienced street theater and mumming performer and a professor of theatre production in the Department of Theatre, York University, Toronto. In 2006 John danced as the fool with the Toronto Morris Men in the Carnival Parade in Santiago de Cuba.

http://www.yorku.ca/finearts/faculty/profs/mayberry.htm

Family Week at Pinewoods

Keith Murphy

Keith Murphy has been immersed in music and dance since his childhood days in Newfoundland. His distinctive rhythmic sound on guitar, mandolin, piano and foot percussion has helped drive several great contra dance bands including Nightingale, Wild Asparagus and Assembly. Having performed at many dance events throughout the U.S. and Canada as well as overseas, he brings a wealth of experience and sophistication to his playing.

www.blackislemusic.com

Family Week at Pinewoods

Family Week at Ogontz

American Dance Musicians Course

Deirdre Murtha

Deirdre Murtha has been a music teacher for the last 15 years, and was a preschool and elementary classroom teacher in New York City for 10 years before that. Her music and dance programs for all ages bring her to preschools, libraries, camps, homeschooling groups and her son's elementary school. Deirdre is a member of the dance education group Pourparler; is certified in Level One Orff, Kodaly, and Dalcroize music education; and holds a Master’s Degree in Education from Hunter College in New York. Deirdre also performs, with her husband Sean, in Strange Potatoes, an Irish traditional and old-time music duo; and as a member of the maritime and sea chantey group The Johnson Girls (www.thejohnsongirls.com). She has also been a member of two Revels productions. Deirdre lives in Norwalk, CT with Sean and their sons Brendan and Graham.

Family Week at Pinewoods

Campers' Week at Pinewoods

Becky Tracy

Becky Tracy grew up dancing to her father's calling and scratchy 78s of Don Messer's fiddle playing. She has fiddled with the bands Nightingale and Wild Asparagus for the last 15 years and has played in many, many lovely places including Hawaii and France. Becky has a distinctive clarity of tone, a rhythmic attack owing much to French-Canadian playing and the melodic quality of Irish music. Her unmistakable sound has made her a defining presence among dance musicians.

http://www.blackislemusic.com/

Family Week at Pinewoods

Family Week at Ogontz

American Dance Musicians Course

Emily Troll

Emily Troll plays fiddle and accordion at dances around New England and is a proud member of the all-girl band Anadama. Emily loves making music with kids and families. She is currently studying Elementary Education at Lesley University. Photo by Roger Katz

Family Week at Pinewoods

Campers' Week at Pinewoods

Paul Woodiel

Leonard Bernstein described Paul Woodiel as "a first-class performer - one who combines spirituality with intellect". A busy purveyor of a broad range of violin/fiddle music, he has appeared as soloist at music festivals from Bard College in New York to the red rocks of Moab, Utah. A three-time New England Fiddle Contest champion, he is a noted exponent of traditional fiddle styles and performs across the U.S. and abroad with the Scottish dance band Local Hero. An unabashed theater musician with dozens of Broadway credits, he is also a go-to fiddle stylist for commercial recording in New York, and his fiddling is heard in myriad contexts including Woody Allen films, Tony Bennett albums, and advertisements for breakfast cereals and weight-loss medications. He has been on staff at Pinewoods in the past for the English/Scottish and Scottish programs.

English Dance Week at Pinewoods

Family Week at Pinewoods

* Advisors, plus

Robin Rogers-Browne

Family Week at Pinewoods

Tentative Schedule

7:45-8:15	Hot Breakfast served cafeteria style
8:15-8:45	Cold Breakfast Coffee/Tea available
9:00-9:55	kids can be dropped off at their class at 8:55 9:00 Kids' Classes Age 2-3 Playtime: Anna Mayberry -- Our young campers will have a great time while their parents take the adult classes. Age 4-5 Move and Groove: Emily Troll -- Silly songs, fun music games, and groovy dancing. Age 6-7 Music and Movement: Deirdre Murtha -- Campers will enjoy play party, partner, and longways dances, creative movement, singing and hand-clapping games, and call and response songs. Age 8-9 Longsword: Kappy Laning, Keith Murphy -- Style, rhythm, team work in a longsword dance. We will make our own kits, so bring a large white t shirt. Age 10-12 Not Your Grandma's Social Dances: Katy German, Becky Tracy -- Actually, they are more like your great-great-great-grandmother's dances! But that doesn't mean we can't infuse them with new energy and make them our own. We'll be looking at some classic English dances, discussing what makes them unique and interesting, and thinking about what it means to be part of a living tradition. Many of the dances we learn during class will be on the evening dance schedule. We will also be focusing in on a few more complex dances and unique formations. At the end of the week, we'll stun the entire camp with our amazing performance. It will be epic. Family Week at Pinewoods
	Adult Classes 9:00 Adult Classes Cruising Altitude (Int/Exp ECD): Kalia Kliban / Karen Axelrod, Paul Woodiel -- We'll assume familiarity and comfort with ECD basics, including heys and double figure 8s, and soar upward from there. The last 400 years have given us a glorious range of challenging and satisfying dances, some familiar and some less so, and we'll wing our way through as many as we can with streamlined teaching and a fast pace. Each session will start with a short waltz for the benefit of those who need an extra couple of minutes to help a child get to class. Miss the take-off? Don't be shy! Change your shoes and launch from the bottom! Appalachian Clog for all: Abby Ladin / Sam Bartlett -- No experience necessary OR brush up on your favorite steps. Learn the double basic, the buck step and the Tennessee walking step for starters. Let’s get percussive with great banjo music and some rhythm in our feet! Family Week at Pinewoods
10:00	Refreshments
10:15-11:00	Morning Gathering (songs, dances, show & tell for all)
11:00-12:00	Swimming, Bookstore staffed
12:15	Lunch
1:35-2:30	Mixed-age Classes 1:35 Mixed-age Classes (All ages) Nap or Rest Lullabies and Quiet Songs (Age 8 & younger w/parent): Deirdre Murtha -- Instead of a nap, enjoy a relaxing musical session with your child as we sing songs and share gentle movement activities about the quiet joys of families, nature, and animals. Community Art (Age 8 & up, under 8 w/parent): Abby Ladin -- Abby will bring some projects and we will change the pace a bit, quietly creating. Family Band (Age 10 & up, younger if passionate): Keith Murphy, Becky Tracy -- Bring you instrument and we will fit you in! Together, with some work and concentration, we will make music to dance to. Singing Class (Age 10 & up, younger if passionate): John Mayberry -- We will work from prescribed parts, many taught by ear, as well as get some practice in improvising and developing harmonies. We will work on a number of songs, improving them as the week progresses. There will be opportunities for us to break into song for the whole camp as well. Beg/Int Contras, Squares and English (Age 13 & up, 8-12 w/parent): Kathy Anderson, Karen Axelrod, Paul Woodiel, Sam Bartlett -- A friendly introduction to contras, squares and English: We will review the basic moves in these styles while dancing entertaining and accessible dances. A preparation for one dance from the evening's program will be offered each day. Parents are encouraged to take advantage of this opportunity to dance with their children. Experienced dancers are invited to share their skills during this class. Family Week at Pinewoods
2:45-3:40	kids can be dropped off at their class at 2:40 2:45 Kids' Classes Age 2-3 Playtime: Anna Mayberry -- Anna has a large bag of tricks to keep these young campers happy. Age 4-5 Singing Games: Deirdre Murtha -- Campers will enjoy simple play party, circle, and partner dances, singing games, creative movement, song dramatizations, and percussion instruments. Age 6-7 Stories, Songs and More: Abby Ladin -- Some down time together: stories, singing, drawing and exploring in nature. Age 8-9 Singing and Dancing: Katy German, Sam Bartlett -- Are you ready to learn some new and more challenging dances, but not willing to cut back on silliness and fun? Well, this is the class for you! Each day we will devote time to earnestly developing our dance skills, singing some new songs, and doing something silly. (I have a hunch that our musician, Sam Bartlett, can help out with that.) Many of the dances and singing games we learn during class will also happen at the morning gathering, so you can help the adults when they get confused. We may even choose to lead a few dances at morning gathering in the later part of the week! Age 10-12 Morris: John Mayberry, Emily Troll -- John may be a Fool, but who better to lead a serious morris dance class! Family Week at Pinewoods
	Adult Classes 2:45 Adult Classes Int/Exp American Dance Party: Kathy Anderson, Keith Murphy, Becky Tracy -- Contras and squares for age thirteen and older, with contras from the traditional to the hot off the presses dances, and squares from the Southern, 50s Western and New England traditions. Lots of dancing! Garland for all: Kappy Laning, Paul Woodiel -- Learning The Rose will be the focus of this class. It is a linked garland dance with flowing and elegant figures done with a fast walking step. All levels are welcome. We will also be making our own head pieces. Family Week at Pinewoods
3:45-5:00	Swimming, Bookstore staffed
4:00-4:30	Jam Session: Emily Troll Jam Session: Emily Troll All are welcome. A great way to unwind and have fun late in the day - a casual, inviting jam session in Ampleforth. There is still time for a quick dip before swim ends. Family Week at Pinewoods
4:45-5:15	Porch Sing: John Mayberry Porch Sing: John Mayberry All are welcome to join John on the Camphouse porch as swimming ends. Join in on the chorus, make a request, lead a song, or lurk at the edges and enjoy the music. This is relaxed and welcoming; John will make sure that the songs keep coming. Family Week at Pinewoods
6:00	Dinner
7:15-7:45	Community Dance
7:50-8:45	Evening Gathering
8:30	Pied Piper/Bedtime for children 9 & younger
8:45-10:45	Evening Dance Party
9:30	Bedtime for 10-12 year olds
11:00	After-dance Activities

July 20 - 27, 2013

Is there still room?
For up-to-date info about availability and wait lists,
see our main Dance & Music Camps page.

Printable information

Description of Classes: a 2 page description of the classes

Daily Schedule: a 1 page daily timetable

For accepted campers: Links to a few important pages and surveys.

Program Description

Family Week is a wonderful combination of learning and doing. We offer opportunities for experienced campers to deepen their connections and welcome new participants of all ages to share the music and dance that we love, and the community it supports. Our classes strive to improve skills while the evening program stresses inclusion of the entire community, keeping the dancing, singing and other activities accessible and fun, as our skills improve through the course of the week.

Dance classes include contras, squares and English country, including a class to teach the basics of both English and American dance styles, as well as, garland dance and Appalachian clog. There will be many opportunities for singing, a jam session every afternoon, and a daily musical procession or two. Musicians in the band class will prepare to play for a dance each evening; the song class will give us a nightly song. There will also be crafts, swimming, and hanging out with friends, old and new.

Family Week fills us with inspiration that sustains us through the year and we are lucky to have great programs of this sort developing around the country. This year's Family Week at Pinewoods brings together organizers of Family programs from across the country. While preserving cherished Pinewoods traditions, we learn from the experiences of CDSS programs at Timber Ridge, where Kappy Laning is long time Camp Director as well as the programs of other, affiliated, organizations. Katy German is Assistant Program Director and has run the children's program for many years at Berea's Christmas Country Dance School. Kalia Kliban recently directed Bay Area CDS Family Week. We also expect a visit during the week from our Family Week at Ogontz Camp Director, Robin Rogers-Browne. Each of these programs is, and should be, distinct, but we will take this opportunity to share our approaches and, together, bring you and your family a great program. We hope you can join us.

Steve Howe, Program Director

Recent articles in Making Music Magazine and South Shore Living have highlighted our Family camps.

A Typical Day

At each of our Family programs, a typical day includes two classes tailored to age groups. Morning starts with age specific classes for children age 2 and up, while parents and the teens pursue their own music and dance classes. Also, the whole camp gathers to sing and dance together before lunch. Children not napping after lunch may join their parents in a wide variety of classes designed for mixed age groups. After dinner the whole community comes together for a family dance followed by singing and stories.

As dusk settles, a Pied Piper leads the families with children age 9 and younger (8 and younger at Campers' Week) to their cabins where the parents put their children to bed. Preteens stay halfway through the evening dance before their bedtime comes. Adults and teenagers can enjoy the evening dance and later activities, while roving monitors listens for wakeful children. If a child is uncomfortable, the monitor will alert the parent at the dance. Each family is expected to prepare their children for these scheduled bedtimes.

Last day start of parade.

Photo by Andy Kane

Printable Information for Accepted Campers

Acceptance Information: Details for getting to and being at camp.

Welcome letter with more information about the program.

Class Questionnaire: Please give us an idea of the classes you will take. Also available online at http://www.surveymonkey.com/s/fwpw13

Family Bio Sheet: Use this or create your own with information you want to share and that will help others get to know your family better.

General Info: On being at camp with minors.

Parent & Guardian Form: Needed for each minor at camp.

Rides: Do you need or can you offer a ride? Also available online at http://www.surveymonkey.com/s/PWrides13

Special Diet: Please let us know if you have dietary concerns. Also available online at http://www.surveymonkey.com/s/PWDiets

If you have not already, please do sign the Waiver.

To pay any camp Balance Due