BACDS Fall Dance Weekend 2013

<BODY BGCOLOR="#C6EFF7"> <CENTER> <B><FONT SIZE=+1><A HREF="http://www.bacds.org"> <IMG SRC="../img/small_bacds_logo.gif" ALT="BACDS logo."><BR> The Bay Area Country Dance Society</A> <BR>Presents</FONT></B><BR> <FONT SIZE=+2>The 2013 Fall Dance Weekend</FONT><BR> <FONT SIZE=+2>At <I><A HREF="http://www.camping.org/monte.htm">Monte Toyon</A></I> in Aptos, California</FONT><BR> <FONT SIZE=+2>October 18-20 2013</FONT><BR></CENTER> <P><BR> <HR WIDTH="100%"><BR> <body bgcolor="#ffffc6"> <center> <table noborder> <tr> <td> <A HREF="fw13about.htmlx" target="Content">About</A> |  </td> <td> <A HREF="fw13staff.htmlx" target="Content">Staff</A> |  </td> <td> <A HREF="fall_frolick_13.pdf" target="_blank"> Registration Flyer</A> |  </td>       <td> <A HREF="http://www.uccr.org/camp/monte-toyon" target="_blank"> Site Info (opens new window or tab)</A> |  </td> <td> <A target="Content" HREF="http://maps.google.com/maps?f=q&hl=en&geocode=&q=Monte+Toyon+camp+Aptos&jsv=121&sll=39.43195,-121.398926&sspn=6.312644,10.810547&ie=UTF8&ei=S5aSSJvzOoq6jgPE3eSOBg&cd=1&cid=36995332,-121896497,3502445877648512809&li=lmd&z=14&t=m" > Map </A>  |  </td> <td> <A target="Content" HREF="fw13directions.htmlx">Directions</A>  |  </td> <td> <A HREF="fw13fragfree.htmlx" target="Content">Fragrance Free</A>  |  </td> <td> <A target="Content" HREF="fw13contact.htmlx">Contact Us</A>  |  </td>    <td rowspan=3> <a target="_blank" HREF="archive.htmlx">Past Years</a> </td> </tr> </TABLE> </center> </BODY> <P><BR> <HR WIDTH="100%"><BR> <A NAME="staff"></A> <HTML> <BODY BGCOLOR="#FFD700"> <A Name="Top"> <div align="center"> <table border=2> <caption> Click on the name of a staff member to jump to his or her bio. Bios will be added as we receive them! </caption> <tr> <td> <a href="#Bruce">Bruce Hamilton</a> </td> <td> <a href="#Charlie">Charlie Hancock </a> </td> <td> <a href="#Graham">Graham Christian</a> </td> </tr> <tr> <td> <a href="#Maldon">Maldon Meehan</a> </td> <td> <a href="#Ted">Ted Hodapp</a> </td> <td colspan=1 align="center"> <a href="#Kalia">Kalia Kliban </a> and <a href="#Sharon">Sharon Green </a> </td> </tr> <tr> <td> <a href="#Dave">Dave Bartley </a> </td> <td> <a href="#Doug">Doug Olsen </a> <td> <a href="#Michelle">Michelle Levy </a> </td> </tr> <tr> <td> <a href="#Nick">Nick Cuccia </a> </td> <td> <a href="#Rebecca">Rebecca King </a> </td> <td colspan=1> <a href="#Shira">Shira Kammen </a> </td> </tr> <tr> <td colspan=3 align = center> <a href="#Wayne">Wayne Hankin</a> </td> </tr> </table> </div> <div align="left"> <hr> <br /> <br /> <table> <caption> Fall Frolick's <b>English country dance</b> leaders are: </caption> <tr> <td width="15%"> <a name="Bruce"><img height="350" src="bruce.jpg" alt="Bruce Hamilton"> </td> <td> <em>Bruce Hamilton</em> --A world-renowned English and Scottish dance leader, Bruce has taught many calling workshops, and is equally good at presenting dances with clarity and wit. </td> <td>   </td> </tr> <tr> </td> <td width="15%"> </td> </tr> <tr> <td width="15%">   </td> <td> <a name="Graham"></a> <em>Graham Christian (MA)</em> Graham's historical dance knowledge, alternative reconstructions of dances, beautiful form and sly wit make him a treasure. </td> <td width="15%"> <img height="350" src="graham.jpeg" alt="Graham Christian"> </td> </tr> <tr> <td width="15%"> <a name="Jenny"><img height="350" src="jenny.jpg" alt="Jenny Beer"> </td> <td> <em>Jenny Beer (PA)</em> <p> A favorite leader during her sojourn in the Bay Area some time back, Jenny has returned to enlivening the Philadelphia dance scene. Author of favorites like "Key to the Cellar" and "The Minor Spaniard", she is an excellent instructor, thanks to her musical sensitivity and good taste. </td> <td> </td> </tr> </table> <center> <br> <img src="leaf4.jpg"> </center> <p> <table> <caption> The <b>Other</b> leaders! </caption> </p> <td width="15%"> <img height="350" src="maldon.jpg" alt="Maldon Meehan"> </td> <td> <a name="Maldon"></a> <em>Maldon Meehan</em> Portland-based Maldon Meehan performs, teaches, and choreographs Irish sean-nos and set dances in both the Pacific Northwest and Ireland. A prize-winning step dancer, she currently performs with the band Brog Crua. </td> </tr> <td width="15%">   </td> </tr> <tr> <td width="15%">   </td> <td> <a name="Ted"></a> <em>Ted Hodapp</em> Ted has been dancing, choreographing, teaching, and performing traditional dance for nearly 35 years and has led several rapper and longsword teams including his current team, Cutting Edge Sword of the Washington DC area. Along with performance dance, he continues to dance and teach Scandinavian couple dances, contras, clogging, and a variety of other styles - and tells really bad jokes too. </td> <td width="15%"> <img height="350" src="ted.jpg" alt="Ted Hodapp"> </td> </tr> <tr> <td colspan="3">  <br /> <br /> </td> </tr> <td colspan="3">  <br /> <br /> </td> </tr> </table> </p> <br /> </p> <center> </center> <br> <center> <table width="80%"> <caption> <font size=+2> Our amazing musical staff </caption> </font> <tr> <td width="30%" align=center valign=top> <a name="Dave"></a>  <br> <em>Dave Bartley (Seattle)</em> <br> Dave Bartley - the B in KGB (and in its English undercover version, MI-5) - is a brilliant musican and composer. </td> <td width="30%" align=center valign=top> <a name="Charlie"></a> <img height="200" src="hancock.jpg" alt="Charlie Hancock"> <br> <em>Charlie Hancock</em> <br> Charlie Hancock (CA), pianist and accordionist, is equally adept playing for English country, Scottish country, contras, and display dancing. He has played for BACDS dances, camps, and balls for 18 years, with occasional gigs further afield, including Pinewoods and the Portland (OR) English ball. He is a member of Bay Area folk ensemble Euphonia, and has recorded with Sylvia Herold, Holly Tannen, and Cathie Whitesides. Infusing jazz, swing, and Irish music, he plays with brilliance, drive, and clarity. </td> <td width="30%" align=center valign=top> <a name="Rebecca"></a> <img height="200" src="rebeccaking.jpg" alt="Rebecca King"> <br /> <em>Rebecca King</em> <br /> Rebecca King teaches music to hundreds of children in the Sonoma Valley Schools. By night, she plays piano at English Country dances, and in the contradance bands Flashpoint and Luceo. Her recordings include Swinging On The Gate for the Bay Area Country Dance Society, and Farnicle Huggy, a collection of 18th cen. English Country dances. </td> <tr> <td colspan=3> <hr> </td> </tr> <tr> <td width="30%" align=center valign=top> <a name="Shira"></a> <img height="200" src="shirakammen.jpg" alt="Shira Kammen"> <br> <em>Shira Kammen</em> <br> Multi-instrumentalist and occasional vocalist Shira Kammen has spent well over half her life exploring the worlds of early and traditional music. A member for many years of the early music groups Ensemble Alcatraz, Project Ars Nova, and Medieval Strings, she has also worked with Sequentia, Hesperion XX, the Boston Camerata, the Balkan group Kitka, the King's Noyse, the Newberry and Folger Consorts, the Oregon, California and San Francisco Shakespeare Festivals, and is the founder of Class V Music, an ensemble dedicated to providing music on river rafting trips. The strangest place Shira has played is in the elephant pit of the Jerusalem Zoo. </td> <td width="30%" align=center valign=top> <a name="Michelle"></a> <img height="200" src="levy.jpg" alt="Michelle Levy""> <br /> <em>Michelle Levy</em> <br /> Michelle Levy has been performing on and exploring the possibilities of the violin/viola for over 20 years. <p> Starting out classically, she fell in love with the spontaneity of folk music while in college, and soon began a career focused on accompanying vocalists, improvising, and performing ancient music on fiddle, viola, and Medieval vielle. She currently performs with the Boston Camerata and regularly plays for English Country dances & Contra dances on the west coast with lots of groovy folks, recently co-founding dance bands The Whoots (Jim Oakden, Noel Cragg, Ben Schreiber) and TriTonic (Anita Anderson & Jim Oakden). Michelle has played for Playford Balls, English Week Dance & Music Camp, Fall Frolick, & Spring Fever. She just released the album Forces of Nature (March 2012), a collaboration with Shira Kammen. </td> <td width="30%" align=center valign=top> <a name="Wayne"></a> <img height="200" src="hankin.jpg" alt="Wayne Hankin"> <br> <em>Wayne Hankin</em><br> Multi-instrumentalist Wayne Hankin has toured with Cirque du Soleil, led classes for musicians and singers at Mendocino English Week and Lark in the Morning, and played beautifully on more than one recording with Meredith Monk, Jewel, They Might be Giants, and the New York Ensemble for Early Music. </td> </tr> <tr> <td colspan=3> <hr> </td> </tr> <tr> <td width="30%" align=center valign=top> <a name="Kalia"> </a><img height="200" src="kalia.jpg" alt="Kalia Kliban"> <br /> <em>Kalia Kliban</em> <br /> Kalia, an expert in performance dance from Appalachian clog to morris to longsword, is the house caller for the Sebastopol English dance, and a rising star on the national scene. A fixture at BACDS Family Week, she's the co-programmer of this year's Fall Frolick. </td> <td width="30%" align=center valign=top> <a name="Sharon"> </a><img height="200" src="green.jpg" alt="Sharon Green"> <br /> <em>Sharon Green</em> <br /> simply loves welcoming newcomers to the joys of English country dance. As a novice caller, she worked most closely with Christine Helwig and Fried de Metz Herman. Through CDSS and EFDSS Sharon took a number of dance leadership classes. She has taught at Dance Flurry (NY), Down East Festival (ME), Mainewoods Dance Camp (ME), NEFFA (MA), BACDS Fall Frolick (CA), Lark Camp (CA), Pinewoods English Week (MA), BACDS English Week (CA), and CD*NY's True Brit, Synergy, and Whirligig weekends (NY). She has also been a frequent visiting caller and teacher at dances on both coasts, and has taught at festivals and workshops in Canada, the UK and Japan. <p> Interested in performance dancing as well as social dance, Sharon helped found the now defunct Harpies Molly team and served, with Paul Ross, as co-director of Christine Helwig's Chelsea English Country Dancers demonstration team, with whom she began dancing in 1990. Sharon also edited the notes on English country dancing for two of Fried de Metz Herman's collections of dances, Ease and Elegance and Fringe Benefits. <p> She's the co-programmer of this year's Fall Frolick. </td> <td width="30%" align=center valign=top> <a name="Doug"></a> <br /> <em>Doug Olsen</em> <br /> A song leader with an extensive repertoire of Elizabethan drinking songs - and more! - Doug always offers a good time. </td> </tr> <tr> <td width="30%" align=center valign=top> <a name="Nick"></a> <img height="200" src="nick_cuccia.jpg" alt="Nick Cuccia"> <br /> <em>Nick Cuccia</em> <br /> "But I *am* dancing! It's just that my partner is electronic and has a lot of knobs!" is how Nick responds when asked why he's listening to music instead of dancing. Taking equal joy in producing contra, English, and other folk and couple dance music of the highest quality, Nick's credits as lead or assistant sound engineer include numerous BACDS events and camps (English Week, Fall Weekend, Fall Ball, Sierra Swing, and local tours by The Flying Romanos, Pete Grassby, and Four in a Bar), the first two NBCDS Mad Robin English balls, the San Francisco Free Folk Festival, and the Fairfield (IA) Folk Arts and Dance Co-op's annual Bare Necessities dance weekends. </td> </tr> </table> </center> </div> </CENTER> <P> <HR WIDTH="100%"> <DIV ALIGN=right>Page maintained by <I><A HREF="mailto:winston@slac.stanford.edu">Alan Winston</A></I> <br> </div> </BODY> </HTML> <HR WIDTH="100%"></P> <P>This document last modified: Friday, 17-May-2013 19:22:39 PDT</P> <P> <HR WIDTH="100%"></P> <A Name="particulars"></A> [an error occurred while processing this directive] <HR WIDTH="100%"> <DIV ALIGN=right> Page maintained by <I><A HREF="mailto:winston@slac.stanford.edu">Alan Winston</A></I> </DIV> <DIV ALIGN=right><A HREF="fwfaq.htmlx">Fall Weekend FAQ</A></DIV> <DIV ALIGN=right><A HREF="http://www.bacds.org">BACDS Home page</A></DIV> <DIV ALIGN=right><P>This document last modified: Friday, 17-May-2013 19:22:39 PDT Accesses: </BODY>