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Theresa Connelly's avatar

Thank you for these videos. The last one of the musicians playing their music onstage jarred me when the camera panned to the audience: such vital, dynamic, contagious music is obviously meant to be danced to, not watched. I adore theatres and especially beautiful ones like this, but isn't it interesting how we "evolved" from the anarchy and joyous abandon of public festivals in town squares to staid rows and assigned seating where we became well-behaved spectators?

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Dick Atlee's avatar

I was in the Washington Christmas Revels in its first years, as a Morris and sword dancer. I had the pleasure of being one of the duo of Morris dancers who did the Lord of the Dance in those years (once with Jack Langstaff), and later as an accordionist, using that tune as the lead-off tune in a powerful medley we used for contra dances.

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