Browne, Brad Sayler, Jacqueline Schwab, and Chris Walker. Our music this year will also be Ql);B varied: "Bare Necessities" (Peter Barnes, Earl Gaddis, Mary Lea, and Jacqueline Schwab) will play for three of every four weeks of our :Boston 40-week season, and "Zealand" (Karen Axelrod and Pat MacPherson) will play for the fourth week. l1r\l1s The Ritual English Class Series, which will fol­ low the same schedule of dates as the English Country Dance, omitting only the party dates, ... ... will feature a rich variety of offerings, which are .: ... Gi .: ·... described in more detail elsewhere in this issue of the Newsletter. As always, attendance at a Ritual Dance Class entitles one to dance the remainder of the evening gratis at the English Dance. We hope to see all the old familiar faces in Watertown on September 13th--and let us urge you to bring a friend with you! Our dance has run in the red for several years now, but a mere 12 dancers more a night would change all that. So encourage a friend--or, better, a dozen friends--to join us; and we'll try our best to make their visit such fun that they'll come back again and again. Wednesday English Dance Moves --Mary Stafford, The Wednesday evening English Country Chair, English Dance Committee Dance is moving its location to St. John's United Methodist Church at 80 Mount Auburn Street in Watertown, three blocks from Water­ town Square, where the Tuesday night Ameri­ can dance has been held for the past year. Extensive renovations planned by the Cambridge YWCA necessitate a move at this time, and we are lucky to have obtained the use of St. John's. The Tuesday night dance has been quite successful there: the hall has a good floor, Kick up your heels and kick off the 75th parking is easy, and several lines of the T con­ versary of CDS, Boston Centre with a dance­ ...Saturday, September 23, at the Immaculate v~nie~tly converge at Watertown Square. Our flIers mclude a map and bus route information. Conception Church on Alewife Brook Parkway in North Cambridge. Many musicians and cal­ The season begins on Wednesday, September lers who have been integral in the history of 13, 1989, and ends on Wednesday, June 13, CDS will be featured for both English and 19?0. This will give us 40 weeks of dancing, American dancing. unmterrupted by Wednesday holidays this year. We'll have a potluck supper at 6:30, maybe get Four Wednesday nights will be run as "party" to look at a few pictures and hear a bit about the dances, with most of our teachers calling sim­ Boston Centre (never heard it told so well), anq., pler dances with less teaching than on ordinary for those who'd care to brush up on their Wednesdays. The "party" dances are English or American figures (or help others do Thanksgiving Eve (November 22), Christmas so), there will be a brief workshop at 7:30. The Week (December 27), Valentine's Day (Febru­ dance begins at 8 :00. ary 14), and Season's End (June 13). Bring a friend--or two or three, After all, given Dances begin at 8:00 p.m. and end at 11:00 p.m. the stellar line-up and this once-in-a-lifetime Our "format" remains essentially the same as it price of admission--75~--how can you not have has been: two teachers share the evening, each a great time? calling for an hour. A short social break at 10:00 p.m. is followed by a "request" period when P.S. Do you have any pictures, costumes, or dances are talked through but not taught. CDS memorabilia that we can display at the We are delighted to present a staff of eight Kick-Off Dance? Any ideas on how to decorate teachers: Helene Cornelius, Barbara Finney, the hall? Please call Carole Talley at (617) George Fogg, Rich Jackson, Robin Rogers- 497-7490. • The Nutting Girl (Fieldtown) • Old Mother Oxford (Headington) • Swaggering Boney (Longborough) • The Twenty-ninth of May (Headington) We used the Winter Processional for dancing on and off. The tour started at 2:30 p.m. at the Radcliffe Quadrangle. We found a ready-made crowd, since the 'Cliffe girls were holding a rum­ mage sale at the other end of the grounds. We First Tour of the Pinewoods Morris Men quickly drew the attention of all, however, On Saturday, 8 October 1966, the Pinewoods and got off to a good start. (I might add that Morris Men held their first tour. The "villages" we had three, and sometimes four, musicians, including a fiddle, two pipe-and-tabors, and were various spots on the Harvard and Radcliffe an accordion.) We drove to the Harvard resi­ College campuses in Cambridge, Massachusetts. dence Houses, where we danced for 15 or 20 Everything conspired to make it one of those minutes at each of four sites: Kirkland House, glorious afternoons which never seem to occur Lowell House, Quincy House, and Leverett except in legends. (But then, a Morris Tour is Towers. The distances at Harvard were such rather a fantasy, isn't it?) The weather was dis­ that we could walk between sites, dancing the processional as we approached the next spot. tilled New England autumn: clear, with a cool With our retinue of spectators, we must have breeze to keep the dancers from getting too hot, presented a curious spectacle to the Cam­ and a warm sun to keep the spectators from bridge townfolk, who aren't all that used to getting too chilly. The dance sites were ideal, seeing a lot of grown men dressed up in from the huge open sward at Radcliffe Quad­ white, wearing ribbons and jangling bells and rangle to the shady knolls and enclosed courts of dancing (dancing, mind you!) down the street leading a large number of people. the Harvard houses. Shortly after 4:30, we proceeded off from The team members came from New York City Leverett Towers and back to the cars. Thence and Boston, for the most part. With fifteen to Tom Kruskal's for quantities of Morris dancers, we were able to have two teams danc­ Ale. Topping it all off, in the evening a dance ing some of the time, trading in and out so that party put on by the Boston Centre of the Country Dance Society. no one worked too hard. In all, a thoroughly satisfying inaugural. The tour was conceived and organized by Mr. e Thomas Kruskal, a Harvard undergraduate who That was twenty-three years ago. This is the is also a member of the Pinewoods team. In twenty-fifth anniversary ofthe founding of order to get permission from Harvard to dance Pinewoods Morris Men. There will be a tour on University grounds, Mr. Kruskal formed the ofthe Harvard Square area on Saturday, Sep­ Dudley House Morris Club, which, as an autho­ tember 23,1989 to celebrate. The Tour will start at the Cambridge Common at 10:30 a.m. rized Harvard activity, was allowed to sponsor and continue through the day in the environs. the tour. We hope that, with other activities For additional information, contact Joe planned, the tour will spark interest in Morris Kynoch (508) 877-1168. dancing at Harvard, perhaps eventually leading to the formation of a College team. The arrangements for the tour were made by Mr. Kruskal, Mr. Renald Cajolet, present squire of the Pinewoods Morris Men, and the writer 1;4;/ [Shag Graetz]. The dances and the schedule were directed by Mr. Arthur Cornelius, captain WINTER WEEKEND of the Boston Morris Team. The repertory con­ sisted of the following dances: Keep the weekend of February 9, 10, 11 open. • Constant Billy (Headington) CDS is sponsoring a weekend of dancing at the Lake Shore Farm in Northwood, NH. This will • Lads A-bunchum (Adderbury) be a weekend of English dancing and winter • Leap Frog (Bledington) sports. So come and enjoy the dancing and the snow. The First Friday Dance is an "Experienced English" dance: it is assumed that dancers are A Rose is a Rose is a Rose familiar with basic English dance figures and Now in its second year, Rose Galliard North­ that the teaching emphasis can be on style. The west Morris Team is enjoying the fruits (and programs will feature well-known English flowers) of many hours of embroidery and dances interspersed with less familiar ones, and applique. When the team was formed, it was each night will have a dance or two of greater made up mostly of morris neophytes, who ques­ difficulty, to stretch your dancing skill. tioned the tradition of one set team logo when The dances begin at 8:00 p.m. and end at 11:00 we could each just design our own. This was p.m. Come enjoy the relaxed atmosphere of a morris blasphemy to yours truly, but slowly the small and friendly hall and dance away the idea sank in (OK, I was outvoted) and the indi­ month's troubles with us. vidual rose logo blossomed forth. --Mary Stafford, Some designs were based on quilt patterns, Chair, English Dance Committee while others were inspired by embroidery books. I decided that this really was a neat idea and was determined to be as original as possi­ ble. I chose a basic quilt design with a Celtic knot in the middle, which I hoped I could pass off as a rose. Some were skeptical, until a spon­ taneous ally cried, "It's a braided rose!" "Ex­ actly!" I replied triumphantly, and my design was approved.