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The CDSS News is a print publication and, in a slightly shorter format, an online publication. Below are articles and other material from the most recent issues. We hope you find it informative, thought-provoking, and entertaining. Please contact us if you have comments or questions.
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CDSS News Summer 2017
(photo by Arthur McNair)
Masthead
Letters and Announcements
Columns
Balance and Sing (Store Update)- Tell Me More — Childgrove, by Graham Christian
- News from Canada — Dancing with Friends, by Lorraine Muenster and Lynette Dyck, Village Green ECD
- CDSS Sings — “Song on the Times,” by Jeremy Carter-Gordon
WEB EXTRA:
— Hear Windborne sing “Song of the Lower Classes“, outside Trump Tower, NYC, January 2017 (WindborneSingers.com)
- Yoga for Dance Gypsies, by Anna Rain
Articles
WEB EXTRA:
Hear Sandy on the Alcazar recording, “Potluck and Dance Tonite,” http://stickerville.org/potluck/
- Leading a Contra Dance Role-Swapping Workshop, by Erik Erhardt and Tina Fields
WEB EXTRA:
Full-length version of the article
- Training New Contra Callers in Portland, ME, by Dugan Murphy
Last Page
- Back Cover (photo by Jeff Bary)
CDSS News Spring 2017
(photo by Julia Chambers)
Masthead
Letters and Announcements
Columns
- Balance and Sing (Store Update)
- Hive Mind — Making Dancers Feel Welcome, Safe and Eager to Return
- Musicians Column — Aspects of Musicality, by Martha Edwards
- CDSS Sings — The Faces of Song, by Dianne Shaw, with Donald Hughes
WEB EXTRAS:
— “The Grey Cock,” audio by Peggy Seeger, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=viepsmcLO6k
— 1917 facsimile of “The Grey Cock” from English Folk Songs from the Southern Appalachians, Comprising 122 Songs and Ballads and 323 Tunes, collected by Olive Dame Campbell and Cecil J. Sharp, http://www.traditionalmusic.co.uk/english-folk-songs/southern-appalachians%20-%200228.htm
— Cecil Sharp in America (photo exhibit info), http://cecilsharpinappalachia.org/
— 1/26/17 WUNC “Here and Now” podcast, “How Cecil Sharp Collected The Sights And Sounds of Appalachia,” http://wunc.org/post/how-cecil-sharp-collected-sights-and-sounds-appalachia#stream/0
— EFDSS/VWML, Cecil Sharp’s Appalachian Diaries: 1915-1918, https://www.vwml.org/vwml-projects/vwml-cecil-sharp-diaries
- Tell Me More — The Apted Collection, by Graham Christian
- Yoga for Dancers — Attention, Extension, by Anna Rain
Articles
- It’s the Same Joy Everywhere, by Alice Boyle
- Dance for College Credit!, by Hilton Baxter
- Connecting and Letting Go and the Yin-Yang of Contra, by Lisa Marie Lunt
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Addendum to This Issue
WEB EXTRA:
Slide Show of Madison Exec Meeting