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  • Summer came and once more we could swim, sing, mold clay, hit a ball, learn folkdance (I still dance the Miserlou in my mind) and unclench from being coiled watchers.

    Randy Susan Meyers: Rescuing Kids With Happiness 2010

  • I'll get to see all my Canberra folkdance friends, and get to warn them about the impending doom of morris dancers.

    gillpolack: I'm MCing a dance event in May. I'll ge gillpolack 2009

  • The folkdance traditions bridge the ritualistic and recreational, dhol, dholak found in north India, dhumsa of tribals of Bihar and Dappu of madigas of Andhra Pradesh.

    Archive 2009-04-01 kesav 2009

  • PS I checked with a bunch of my international folkdance friends on Saturday.

    Even in a little thing gillpolack 2009

  • PS I checked with a bunch of my international folkdance friends on Saturday.

    gillpolack: I have two entirely wonderful emails in gillpolack 2009

  • The folkdance traditions bridge the ritualistic and recreational, dhol, dholak found in north India, dhumsa of tribals of Bihar and Dappu of madigas of Andhra Pradesh.

    Untouchable Spring .... అంటరాని వసంతం kesav 2009

  • I'll get to see all my Canberra folkdance friends, and get to warn them about the impending doom of morris dancers.

    Even in a little thing gillpolack 2009

  • On the final screen, a group of Serbian twenty-somethings does a folkdance that looks like Riverdance on Prozac.

    Kate Torgovnick: Even Among a Sea of Cable Channels and the Explosion of YouTube, Public Access Remains Vital 2008

  • Where the traditional Ashberyan folkdance inevitably dislocates the reader's attention, Gardner recalibrates it, returning again and again to the not-quite-legible activities observations and aversions of a stable first person, albeit one who eats bunnies and rainbows, performs menial tasks, ventriloquizes hippies.

    Jordan Davis reads Drew Gardner Lemon Hound 2008

  • Where the traditional Ashberyan folkdance inevitably dislocates the reader's attention, Gardner recalibrates it, returning again and again to the not-quite-legible activities observations and aversions of a stable first person, albeit one who eats bunnies and rainbows, performs menial tasks, ventriloquizes hippies.

    Archive 2008-12-01 Lemon Hound 2008

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