Jonathan Marion, whom I can pretend to know because he is a frequent flyer on Dance Forums, published this interesting article about “the translocal culture of competitive ballroom dance” in Journal for the Anthropological Study of Human Movement. The article does a nice job explaining that competitive dancers not only take the extensive travel associated …
Category Archive: MSDC
May
19
Mar
11
Instrument Petting Zoo!
Daniel and I had to stay busy between meeting our Dancing Stars partners and finding out the dances we’d been assigned, so last Sunday we spent the afternoon at the Macon Museum of Arts and Sciences’ “Instrument Petting Zoo” event. The event is an annual collaboration between the Museum and the Mercer/Macon Youth Orchestra and …
Feb
12
Spring Formal at Macon State College
It used to be the case (18th-19th centuries, after the invention of partner dancing as we know it) that “older” and/or married people didn’t dance at parties or balls. Dancing was for the young people and those who were courting. I’m glad that’s not true anymore or Daniel and I would not have had as …
Jan
27
For the Macon State Dance Club: Dancing makes you smarter!
A tip of the hat to Sadie for sending this video clip my way. It fits right in with this past Wednesday’s first meeting of the Macon State College Dance Club, for which I have the honor to serve as faculty advisor. We had an incredible turnout of around 20 students, all full of good …
Nov
29
Introducing the Macon State Dance Club
After a lot of “We should” and “Why isn’t there” and “How do we,” I am excited to announce that Macon State College is finally starting a dance club! This project fell into my lap a few weeks ago already half done; the students who wanted to start the club came to me with the …