Fandango Weekends in the Past
FANDANGO 2011:
 
Fandango! 2011
 ECD Atlanta's Annual Dance Weekend
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
Fandango! 2011 was held on September 23-25, 2011 at the Clarkston Community Center, 3701 College Avenue, Clarkston, GA 30021.
 
Dances from the Weekend
FRIDAY EVENING:

La Gavre, Yellow Stockings. Contras: Sligo Advocate; Appetizer; Frederick Contra; Pedal

Pushers; Heartbeat Contra; Valley Flourish; Contra Cordions; Blackbird in the Night

 

SATURDAY MORNING:

Dancing Wife; Heather Towers; From Inverness; Wa is Me; After Dinner Maggot; Hazelfern Place; Hudson Barn; Winter Solstice; Homecoming

SATURDAY AFTERNOON:

Mendocino Redwood; Astonished Archaeologist; Minor Spaniard; Autumn in Amherst; Mr Ganiford's Maggot; Dusty Miller; Impropriety; Sally in our Alley; Jack's Health

 
 
 
 
 
 
SATURDAY EVENING:
Christina; Lilliburlero; Turning By Threes; Sun Assembly; Jacob Hall's Jig; Elizabeth; Kelsterne Gardens; Elverton Grove; Bar a Bar; Leslie's Valentine; Key to the Cellar; Alice; Ashford Anniversary; Barbarini's Tambourine
 

 

SUNDAY MORNING:

Take a Dance; Leather Lake House; Margaret's Waltz; Good Man of Cambridge; Easter Tuesday; Hambletons Round O; Physical Snob; Easter Morn; Fandango; Jaque Lat

LORETTA HOLZ WORKSHOP:

Leading Man; Thanks to Mr Playford; The Belle of the Ball; Fickle; A Southern Gentleman; Autumn Tapestry; Candles in the Dark


Principal Caller - Scott Higgs
 
For 25 years, Scott Higgs has traveled the country (25 states and 6 foreign countries) calling for contras and English country dances. Dancers characterize Scott's contras as "high-energy" and "swingy." His English dance programs span the spectrum from exuberant to elegant. Scott has composed dozens of dances, and served as President of the Germantown Country Dancers. His first booklet of dance compositions, Early One Morning, appeared in 1995. Dances from that collection have been performed across the U.S. and Europe, and reprinted in anthologies in the U.S. and the U.K. Scott's leading has been featured at countless week-long workshops, festivals and weekend dance camps.
Special Caller - Loretta Holz
(teaching a special session Saturday morning)

Loretta is the author of Dancing Across the Atlantic, a book of 14 original English Country dances. Among her most popular dances are Candles in the Dark, Dancing across the Atlantic and Leading Man. In Sept, 2010, Loretta called the String Ball in Buckinghamshire, England, which featured 18 of her dances. Her articles have appeared in dance publications including CDSS News in the US and in Set & Turn Single in England--she is the American correspondent for this publication. Loretta has been teaching dancing over 15 years, calling for various local dance groups, as well as leading dances and workshops at weekends. She not only calls English Country dances, but teaches a weekly Scottish Country Dance group and is a very active, long time international folk and Scandinavian dancer.

Loretta Workshop --Dancing Across the Atlantic and Beyond

This workshop will focus on dances from Loretta's book, Dancing Across the Atlantic, and also include new dances which will appear in her next book. Known for their unique story lines and outstanding tunes, Loretta's dances are carefully crafted to flow well so they are accessible to new dancers and fun for experienced dancers. In Set & Turn Single Val MacFarlane said " Her dances are always interesting and distinctive but not too challenging so dancers can enjoy varying the steps and have fun interacting with one another (after all this is social dancing!)" Loretta specializes in using tunes by contemporary American composers including Jonathan Jensen and Charlene Thomson. During this workshop you will enjoy their wonderful tunes and discover just how much fun English Country Dancing can be!
Band - A Joyful Noise(Returning by Popular Demand!)

A Joyful Noise, with Barbara Greenberg, Daniel Beerbohm and Kathy Talvitie

 

 

 

 
 
FANDANGO 2010:
Fandango 2010 was held September 24-26, 2010, with Gene Murrow and A Joyful Noise!
A Selection of Youtube videos from Fandango 2010 can be seen at:
Dance Weekend Overview:
Bloomsbury Market 1703:
Farewell Dance:
Saturday Workshops
"Remembering Fried Herman"

A survey of some of Fried's best dances, from the early publications in the 1970's through late masterpieces like "In the Sere," with elucidation of Fried's particular preferences in movement, music, and pedagogy. For over 40 years, Fried and Gene had periods of close agreement and collaboration as well as sharp disagreements, all of which helped shape Fried's legacy of teaching, recordings, and dances, and informed Gene's appreciation of her work in context.

"Nat'l. Kynaston and a Person of Quality"

Thousands of English country dances were published in the 17th and 18th centuries by John Playford, his successors, and competitors. With very few exceptions, none of the tunes or figures was attributed to the composer or choreographer. A major exception was Nathaniel Kynaston, to whom John Walsh devoted several editions of his annual collections of country dances from 1711 to 1718. Kynaston, in turn, promoted the dances of an anonymous contemporary, identified only as "a person of quality" in Walsh's collections. Both exhibit a distinctive "voice" in their creations and in the reconstructions by Tom Cook and Andrew Shaw that have made both popular.
Saturday Evening Dance Party
(Choreographers and composers of contemporary dances are indicated in parenthesis. Other dances are from the 17th and 18th centuries, though in many cases reconstructed by modern dancing masters.)
Cockle Shells
Delia
The Tuneful Nightingale
Autumn in Amherst
Pat's Tradition
Sally in our Alley
Chocolate Equation
Heartland
Old Wife Behind the Fire

<<< Intermission >>>

Hazelfern Place
Bloomsberry Market
Fandango
Michael and All Angels
Red and All Red
Hambleton's Round O
When Laura Smiles

Extras and/or Sunday Morning

Bar A Bar
Far Away (G. Roodman)
Handel With Care (G. Roodman)
Hudson Barn (Schwab/Hammond)
Muriel's Measure (C. Hume)
Turn of the Tide (R. Coxall)
Walpole Cottage (P. Shaw)
Braes of Dornoch
Fenterlarick (J. Walker)
Smithy Hill (T. Cook)
Elizabeth (C. Hume)
Miss deJersey's Memorial (P. Shaw)
Indian Princess (C. Hume)