The Bay Area Country Dance Society Website

The BACDS English Dance and Music Week offers another wonderful camp at the historic Mendocino Woodlands Camp, near the Northern California coast. Come join us for a week of dancing, music-making, singing, feasting, and merry abandon.

We offer classes in historic and contemporary English country dance, Baroque dance, display dance, music, and song. We promise a program that will challenge and delight both new and experienced campers, complete with the time-honored Morris tour in Mendocino, campers night, singing by the steps, and a daily gathering for campers and staff to share hidden talents.

Come prepared to participate in a camp experience that has been exhilarating campers for more than 20 years!  Spend your days going from class to class beneath the soaring redwoods, learning new skills and polishing old, and spend your nights dancing to glorious music in a hall full of friends.  The 2010 staff includes:

English Country Dance

• Andrew Shaw, internationally recognized English country dance teacher
  
• Bruce Hamilton, internationally recognized English country dance teacher
  
  

Display Dance

• TBA
  
  

Baroque Dance

• Carol Marsh

Musicians

• Jim Oakden, program director (winds, strings, and more)
• Peter Barnes (winds, piano)
• Jacqueline Schwab (piano)
• Earl Gaddis (fiddle)
• Mary Lea (fiddle)
• Shira Kammen (fiddle, voice)
• Jon Berger (fiddle, melodeon)
• Rebecca King (piano)

Music Workshops

• Band class
• Complete Music Track — other workshops TBA
• Singing workshops

Special Workshops and Events

• Callers' workshop and additional enticing workshops
• Picnic in the Meadow
• Morris tour to Mendocino
• Gathering before lunch for staff and camper performances
• Evening after-dance parties including pub night, ceilidh dance, and more
• Singing wherever voices are gathered