Contra with Good Company and Annie Kidwell! Flourishes workshop by Bret Casey!

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BIDA Events | Cambridge

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Contra with Good Company and Annie Kidwell! Flourishes workshop by Bret Casey!
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Come join us for a wonderful day of flourishes and contra dance!
Sunday Nov 16th, at 1950 Massachusetts Avenue, Cambridge MA.
Live music: Good Company (Rohan Weeden, Cecily Mills, Helen Kuhar)
Calling: Annie Kidwell
Workshop Leader: Bret Casey
An afternoon flourish workshop followed by BIDA's contra dance.
3:30-6:30 Ogres, Onions, and Flourishes
7:00 Lesson
7:30-10:30 Evening Dance
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Bret Casey will lead a flourish workshop beforehand:
Join us as we explore a versatile technique for flourishes from foundational elements to a wide array of variations. Instructor Bret Casey brings 16 years of contra dance experience and 15 years of partner dance experience together to offer a unique perspective on the ways that we can layer improvisational moments on top of the contra choreography.
The workshop will be split into three blocks of roughly 50 minutes each, with two short breaks. Each section of the workshop will build on the techniques learned previously, so we encourage you to arrive on time. Familiarity with typical contra dance figures will be helpful. Admission will be on a sliding scale from $5 - $20.
We will have musical accompaniment by Helen Kuhar on guitar and Rohan Weeden on fiddle.
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The dance is $5-20 sliding scale, as you're able. Bring someone new to Contra to the intro session and you both get passes for free admission to a future dance! Share the love.
BIDA needs new volunteers! If you are interested in being more involved with making BIDA the dance we all love, please reach out to us.
This dance is high filtration mask required, vaccination not required. We are alternating between mask required and optional dances. For more, read our blog post: https://blog.bidadance.org/2023/06/some-mask-optional-dances.html
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See you there!
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