Country Dance and Song Society Family Week at Pinewoods August 1 - 8, 1998

Family Week at Pinewoods August 1 - 8, 1998 Program Directors: Jim & Marney Morrison Staff: Andy Davis Donald Davis Merle Davis Steve Hickman Scott Higgs Jonathan Jensen Jane Miller Rodney Miller DeLaura Padovan Doug Quimby Frankie Quimby Kathy ReidNaiman John Roberts Marian Rose Meg Ryan* *Advisors plus: Brad Foster Andra Horton

Program Description: [Back to Top]
This camp offers a unique opportunity to have fun with your family sharing traditional English and American dancing, singing, instrumental music, storytelling, crafts, swimming and good company in one of the most beautiful camp settings in the world. Parents and children have joint activities as well as independent class periods. Roving babysitters are on duty during evening activities.

Class Descriptions: [Back to Top]
Ages 2 and 3
Childcare for the 2 and 3 year olds is provided during the 9:00 and the 2:50 class periods by Kathy. It will be a musical fun and playtime. There is no class offered during nap time after lunch.

Ages 4 and 5
You will have a morning class of dances and laughter with DeLaura and an afternoon class of crafts and exploration with Jane. After lunch, you may choose to join Merle for some fun activities.

Ages 6 and 7
You start the day with stories, hiking, drama, nature and cooking with Merle. The afternoon class is dancing with Marian and music by Rodney. After lunch you may choose a crafts class with Jane.

Ages 8 and 9
We are very fortunate to have the Georgia Sea Islands Singers, Frankie and Doug with us this summer. Your morning will be filled with their Games and Songs. In the afternoon Andy will lead you through some musical drama and dancing. For the after lunch class, you have choices listed later.

Ages 10 and up
Classes are tentative and may be altered. The 10 12 year olds this year will join the teenagers and adults in the morning classes and in some of the afternoon classes.

Ages 10 and up -- Morning Classes (9:00-9:55)
This year, we are experimenting with two sessions of classes in order to offer a larger variety of choices without compromising the relaxed overall schedule. This schedule allows you to taste square dancing half the week and clog the other half.

Singing Squares (Sun-Tues) -- Donald, Steve and Jonathan
Contras and Dances with Unusual Formations (Sun-Tues) -- Marian, Rodney and Andy
Beginning Cotswold Morris (Sun-Tues) -- Jim and John
Intermediate English Clog Dance (Sun-Tues) -- Meg
Canadian Dances (Wed-Fri) -- Marian, Rodney and Andy
Experienced Cotswold Morris (Wed-Fri) -- Jim and John
Beginning English Clog (Wed-Fri) -- Meg and Steve
"We're all full of stories" - Campers Telling Stories (Wed-Fri) -- Donald Davis

Ages 10 and up -- Afternoon Classes (2:50-3:45)
Border Morris (10 & up) -- Jim and John
Georgia Sea Island Songs and Games (10 & up) -- Frankie and Doug
English Country Dance (13 & up) -- Scott, Steve and Jonathan

Early Afternoon Classes (1:40-2:35)
After lunch is a good time for a nap. However, there are also classes offered. Some days there may be a brief jam for less experienced musicians led by Steve Hickman and John Roberts.

Activities (4 & 5) -- Merle
Crafts (6 & 7) -- Jane
Making Bead Animals (8 & up) -- DeLaura
Songs (8 & up) -- John
Games: String, Clapping and more (9 & up) -- Marian
Fiddle Tunes, intermediate/advanced (10 & up) -- Rodney
The Art of Storytelling (10 & up) -- Donald
Longsword (12 & up) -- Jim and Jonathan

Late Afternoon (4:45-5:15)
Donald will tell a story each afternoon on the Camphouse porch. This is a wonderful time for as many as are interested to relax and let Donald carry you to the lands of his childhood and of "Jack."

Family Week at Pinewoods Daily Schedule
7:45 - 8:15	Breakfast
9:00 - 9:55	Morning classes, divided by age group
10:00	Refreshments
10:15 - 11:00	Family Gathering
11:00 - 12:00	Swimming
12:15	Lunch
1:40 - 2:35	Early afternoon classes/rest time
2:50 - 3:45	Afternoon classes, divided by age group
3:50 - 4:45	Swimming
4:45 - 5:15	Stories
6:00	Dinner
7:00	Family Dance
7:50	Evening Gathering
8:15	Pied Piper/bedtime for children 9 and younger
8:30 - 10:45	Evening Dance Party
9:30	Bedtime for 10-12 year olds

Staff Bios: [Back to Top]
Andy Davis
Andy is an outstanding musician on piano and accordion, performer in the long running seasonal revue Nowell Sing We Clear, school teacher, dance caller and favorite of children of all ages.

Donald Davis
Donald combines a multi-generational family tradition of storytelling with a unique gift for putting the experiences of his subjects (and his audience) in a new and better light. Donald also assimilated the singing square dance calls of his onetime North Carolina neighbor Otto Wood.

Merle Davis
Merle, from Ocracoke, NC is a former elementary teacher turned full time traveler. She has become an expert on how to entertain herself and others while on the road with her husband, Donald.

The Georgia Sea Island Singers
Frankie and Doug Quimby took Pinewoods Folk Music Week by storm last year. African-Americans developed songs and movement games to preserve their history and culture as they entertained themselves in the time of slavery. This tradition has continued as community recreation, celebration and performance in the Sea Islands of Georgia.

Steve Hickman
Steve has devoted most of his life to making great dance music on the fiddle. In addition he is known for hambone artistry and virtuosity on chromatic harmonica.

Scott Higgs
Scott is an English and American caller and teacher from Philadelphia, PA. A long time Pinewoods Camp volunteer and mastermind of the camp's computers, he is a frequent staff member at adult dance camps. This will be his first Family Week.

Jonathan Jensen
Jonathan, bassist with the Baltimore Symphony, also plays piano, ocarina, recorder, flute, whistle and 3hole pipe. In the Baltimore/Washington area and at dance camps around the country he plays music for vintage, ragtime, English country and New England dancing.

Jane Miller
Jane, creative, practical and entirely present in the presence of children, is the founder and teacher of the Price Farm School in Antrim, NH.

Rodney Miller
Rodney is an outstanding New England fiddler and fine violin maker. Rodney's infectious playing has been a major force in the current revival of contra dancing in New England and around the world.

Jim Morrison
Jim, foreman of Albemarle Morris and Old Swan Tavern Border Morris, has been teaching morris and sword dancing, calling dances, and playing fiddle and guitar steadily for over 25 years. He is former director of CDSS.

Marney Morrison
Marney returns as program director, trouble shooter and participant. She also buys (and reads) children's books and practices T'ai Chi.

DeLaura Padovan
DeLaura has in recent years started a week of traditional arts and crafts for children, leads monthly family dances in King George, VA, and pursues interests in child rearing, sign language interpreting and farming.

John Roberts
John, currently from Schenectady, NY, is a music engraver, legal alien, singer and musician. One of the finest morris musicians in America, John is also well-known as a traditional English singer and is a founding member of Nowell Sing We Clear.

Marian Rose
Marian, of Vancouver, British Columbia, is known for her infectious enthusiasm throughout the dance community in western Canadia and the Pacific Northwest. Marian specializes in calling dances for families and working with all ages of children in schools. This will be her first trip to Pinewoods and New England.

Meg Ryan
Meg has learned English and American clog dancing from several old masters including Anna Marley and Pat Tracey. She performs with Guiding Star Clog Morris and the New Dancing Marleys.

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