{"id":2747,"date":"2012-06-17T09:59:35","date_gmt":"2012-06-17T13:59:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/jennydeupree.com\/?p=2747"},"modified":"2020-12-22T10:58:52","modified_gmt":"2020-12-22T15:58:52","slug":"dance-camp","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jennydeupree.com\/?p=2747","title":{"rendered":"Dance Camp"},"content":{"rendered":"

Some friends asked about dance camp, so I thought I\u2019d write a description for those who\u2019ve never been to one. Sacred Circle Dance Cape Cod was held at Camp Wingate*Kirkland.\u00a0 It has beautiful grounds and is located on a pond in the middle of the thickest part of Cape Cod. Some people chose to spend one afternoon going to the sea, either Boston Bay, or the outer shore.\u00a0 I had done that last year, and although it was good to get into the ocean, and to sit on the beach, it was too crowded for me to be really comfortable.\u00a0 The one day I thought I would swim in the pond turned out to be too chilly for me to go into the water.\u00a0 I was in a large dorm cabin with 2 other people \u2014 we were at 3 corners, so interacted rarely.
\nBobbi taught one session in the morning, and one in the evening.\u00a0 She taught some of her own choreographies, and some dances she\u2019d learned on trips to South America and England.\u00a0 She taught one traditional dance, Somogyi Karikazo, which I learned in Brunswick Maine over thirty years ago.\u00a0 It remains one of my favorites, so I loved doing it.\u00a0 She also did some very simple dances \u2014 to give our brains a rest \u2014 she called it \u201ccleansing the palate.\u201d\u00a0 Essentially they were the Pravo Oro, the most basic dance form in eastern Europe, but done to many different musics.\u00a0 Bobbi seems to find the greatest music, and doing a dance you already know to a new piece of music is almost like instantly learning a new dance.\u00a0 It\u2019s very enjoyable and restful at the same time.
\nIn the afternoons there were different activities.\u00a0 There was usually dancing for those who wanted to, several of us taught requests, or ones we especially liked.\u00a0 One day there was a walk with the man who founded the camp, he told us about the geology, and the different plants we saw on our walk.\u00a0 (By the way, I knew the cape was mostly sand and thought it was that way because it was the terminal moraine of a glacier – where the glacier drops all the rocks, pebbles, and sand it\u2019s been carrying.\u00a0 But no.\u00a0 The Cape was originally wooded, but the trees were all cut to feed the kilns on a glassworks, and then all the soil eroded away.)
\nOne afternoon we learned a very interesting way of walking through a labyrinth (the simpler and more universal 7 cycle one<\/a>) with a partner, we were on different paths, holding hands, one was walking in while the other was walking out.\u00a0 Very strange experience.\u00a0 Two women taught a session of traditional dances.\u00a0 I gave my audio-visual presentation of \u201cSacred Sites in Ancient Keltia.\u201d
\nI made some new friends and found some old ones, especially one woman I had last seen about 15 years ago.\u00a0 I really enjoyed doing so much dancing, having someone else cook meals (the food was really good!), and opportunities to visit with a lot of interesting people.\u00a0 That\u2019s pretty much typical of the all the dance camps I\u2019ve been to \u2014 though some didn\u2019t have great food.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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