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. >
