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2011 Danceflurry Organization Newsletter DanceFlurry News The 1990s logo Published annually by the DanceFlurry Organization Volume 5 2011 In this issue This year the DanceFlurry Organization reached a new benchmark by obtaining our own 501(c)(3) nonprofit tax President’s Message ................................................. 1 status after many years of being a subsidiary of the What’s Coming up at the 2012 Flurry ........................ 2 An Uplifting Feat: The Great DanceFlurry Country Dance and Song Society (CDSS). We pursued Floor Project ...................................................... 3 independent status in order to make it easier to obtain Festival Memories, beginning on page ...................... 3 grants and receive donations, including the corporate The Flurry Roots Band: A History of the matching donations that some of our members have Festival Finale .................................................... 4 given us over the years. We remain a member of CDSS, The Flurry Festival: Growing Better Year by Year ...... 6 whose guidance and support over the years we truly appreciate. Our mission remains the same: to connect and inspire through traditional dance and music. President’s Message Volunteers and members are the core of this Jennifer Brown organization, including those who organize and help with e’ve had an exciting year our dance series, those who bring us the Flurry Festival W this year! The 2011 Flurry each year, and the board members themselves. We could Festival was another amazing three not present any of these great events without them and -day whirlwind of dance and our supportive participants. This is one of the most music, and we’ve already started planning the 25th inspiring groups of people to work with, because anniversary festival. The Adirondack Dance Weekend everyone has a passion to help with our goal and put the sold out with its fabulous lineup of contra and English spring in our step! If you have any inclination to help out country dance opportunities. The Capital Swing dancers by volunteering or serving on the Board, please visit the have been filling up the calendar with dances, workshops, sign-up page on our website or talk to a dance series and weekend-long events. Our contra dances have been organizer or member of the Board. We need YOU! well attended, and all of our affiliate groups have been You will find updates on some of our other projects in adding to the excellent program of events available in the this newsletter, including one of our more ambitious broader Capital Region. In addition, the membership ones: researching what it takes to build a dance floor. committee worked to provide members with Enjoy this newsletter and our coming year of events and opportunities to socialize before dances, and the youth please take the time to fill out and return the annual committee has reached out to bring the next generation appeal/membership form with your contribution. the joy of music and dancing. Thank you! The DFO Outreach Committee has been out and about at various sites to promote all that the DFO has to offer. Thanks to John Guay, Vonnie Estes, Tami Flanders, Diane Bell, Don Bell, George Wilson, and Colin McCoy for their work as ambassadors. DanceFlurry Organization PO Box 448, Latham, New York 12110 www.danceflurry.org DanceFlurry News 2011 Page 2 A Quarter instructor), France Moreau (children's dance instructor), Century of the Curley Taylor & Zydeco Trouble (Zydeco band from Flurry Festival! Louisiana), the Pinewoods Balkan band, and Girl The festival is the Howdy (Western swing focus of this year’s and country). newsletter. We hope We are excited to welcome that the stories and back some highly reviewed Festival memories dance leaders and bands that fill these pages help convey the creativity, passion, and love from past years such as that have made this such a successful event. Lindy Hop Heaven, What’s Coming up at the 2012 Flurry Kieran Jordan (Irish dance instructor), Genticorum Peter Davis, Flurry Festival Program Director (dynamite Quebecois The dust has hardly settled, the last few yards of speaker cord has group), Gene Murrow been coiled, and lost and found items are barely packed up before (highly regarded English Peter Davis has begun thinking about the next year’s Flurry. Country dance leader), Program Director of the Flurry Festival since 2006, he describes the Notorious (contra dance plans for the 25th Anniversary Flurry Festival which will band), and the Ilusha take place February 17-19, 2012. Tsinadze Band, who will teach and play for dances n putting together the puzzle of the Flurry’s 32 hours from the Republic of I of programming, we try to achieve a balance between Georgia. We're also excited our amazing local music and dance performers and about the old-time duo of teachers, and others who are regarded nationally and Pete Sutherland and Jim internationally as experts in their field. In addition, we Burns paired with square include both revered masters and younger up-and-coming dance caller Will Mentor. artists. Although the process is not quite complete, we Of course, these are just a know that for our 25th anniversary celebration we will small number of the welcome: performers who will be • Dudley Laufman, one of the pioneers of the gracing our stages, but we Northeast contra revival hope that this little • Fennig's All-Star String Band, who many of us can snapshot will whet your say played the first Northern fiddle music we ever heard appetite for our 25th • Bare Necessities, featuring the great pianist Jacqueline anniversary Flurry Schwab, whose first English Country dance album blew extravaganza. The final many of our minds schedule will be available by • David Millstone, the contradance historian who will mid-December—keep an present discussions on dance history eye out for it on the We take your feedback seriously, and many performers website: Photos, from top: Katherine Wardle, who got the best reviews from last year have been www.flurryfestival.org. Lawrence White & Dale Windsor engaged again, including Yves Moreau (Balkan dance It takes a committee of committee chairs, each of whom works with many volunteers, to plan and present the Festival each year. The 2011 and/or 2012 committees members: Sharon Alley, Don Bell, JoAnn Bisogno, Cathy Corrigan, Leslie Dykeman, Patricia Evans, Rich Futyma, Jennie Grey, Jason Grodsky, Cindy Guadagno, Doug Haller, Bob Henshaw, Jeff Herchenroder, Noralee Itchoak, Dan Kerwood, Bev Lazar-Davis, David Lazarus, Jim Mead, Pat Melita, Joan Otero, Craig Palmer, Janet Palmer, Brad Peak, Gregory Pedrick, Mary-Jane Pelzer, Laura Perrault, Nancy Peterson, Terri Roben, Paul Rosenberg, Rosalee Ruediger-Hamelin, Michael Stratton, Mike & Pat Thomas, Deborah Trupin, Lois Walsh, Linda Wicks, Jerry Wiley, and Catherine Wronski (see cover for directors). DanceFlurry Organization PO Box 448, Latham, New York 12110 www.danceflurry.org DanceFlurry News 2011 Page 3 An Uplifting Feat: Roadhouse portable dance floor that has been used for each Northwest Folklife Festival since 1987. The The Great DanceFlurry Floor Project Roadhouse floor is a simple three-layer, sandwich like Don Bell, DFO Vice-President design, consisting of 4-by-8-foot masonite sheets over Ian Hamelin, Flurry Festival Technical Director two layers of Homasote (a fiber wallboard made from Rich Pisarri, DFO Treasurer recycled paper, similar in composition to papier-mâché). Once assembled, the whole surface is taped together and ancers love the Flurry Festival for a hundred waxed. While not very resilient, Homasote absorbs some D different reasons and offer both accolades and shock from impact, mostly because of the air trapped suggestions. Many Flurry evaluations include comments between the layers; and at least, it is more forgiving than on improving the floors in the larger halls. This would concrete. enhance the quality of the dance experience and also reduce the risk of strain and injury to dancers. Some of The authors of this article formed a DFO committee and the characteristics of a good dance floor are: began discussions with Andrew Pate, who has designed • Appropriate traction: Too much can cause knees to two professional and commercially successful portable twist when turning, too little can result in falls. dance floor systems—the kiwiFLOOR and the Rosco • Just the right amount of give: Too hard causes SubFloor. Our charge to Andrew was to improve on the repetitive strain injuries, too soft or springy is tiring. design of the Northwest Folklife floor, creating a portable • A cushiony surface: This absorbs the energy of falls dance floor that would be light, durable, resilient, and reduces injuries. affordable, easy to install, and designed to work well on • An even plane: A level surface with minimal top of carpet, tile, or cement floors. variations across the entire floor eliminates “clumping” of the dancers and reduces risk of falls. Two Prototypes Andrew developed a prototype dance Sprung wood floors provide the ideal base for dancing of floor panel made of Fibrex (a plastic and wood composite all kinds. One of the best floors at the Flurry is the material). Under the Fibrex panels was a layer of wooden floor in the Saratoga Music Hall (above City polyethylene-based foam. Four panels of this prototype Hall), a favored venue. For years the festival has rented floor were assembled in a demo space at the 2011 Flurry. unsprung wood floor panels to cover the carpeted dance Dancers tried out the floor and their feedback led to the venues. This unsprung flooring placed on top of the conclusion that the first "prototype" was not resilient springy carpet imparts a sturdy but resilient feeling—good enough for our purposes. for a long weekend of dancing. However, this type of Andrew designed a second prototype portable dance flooring would not work well on top of the vinyl-covered floor that improved on the original design by adapting concrete floors in the larger halls of the City Center.
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