Laura Robertson is a retired physician who has been an avid step dancer and clogger for more than 40 years. She specializes in Appalachian and English clogging as well as rapper and Morris. As a former member of Footworks, she danced internationally, including a stint in the original London production of Riverdance. With Compass Roses Morris and Cutting Edge Sword she has danced Morris, sword and clog at Sidmouth Folk Festival in England, and taught clog at many camps and workshops in England and the US.
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Carrie Rose, a flutist and composer in the Washington, DC area, freelances with regional orchestras, grooves for folk dances, unfurls a luscious array of chamber music, and wails out avant-garde chamber music. At folk dances (English Country, Scottish Country, Contra, Waltz) Rose can be spotted as a dancer and as a musician who fuses long melodic lines, edgy crunchy effects, and innovative countermelodies, exploring grace and boisterous energy. On YouTube she posts flute and video concerts in nature with performances in streams,
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Jan Elliott has been dancing and playing music for most of her life, starting with recorder lessons at age 3. Her love of English country dance, morris and sword flourished when she first attended Pinewoods as a teen, and since then she has taught morris, longsword and rapper many times at Camp. She currently dances longsword with the Vineyard Swordfish and morris with Thames Valley International, coaches the children’s rapper team Nobska Lights, and plays concertina for the Pinewoods Morris Men and Orion Longsword.
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Anna delights in the nexus of melody, movement, and community. As a dance leader, she channels the discipline of her day job as a certified Iyengar Yoga instructor, striving to teach efficiently and effectively, while calling every body to move with confidence and ease. She is increasingly interested in how the skills one develops on the dance floor can translate into life wisdom. Anna also plays the recorder with ECD bands Hot Toddy,
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Bruce Hamilton is a well-respected teacher of English and Scottish dancing with 50 years’ experience across 5 countries. He has launched classes, trained teachers, programmed camps, coached performing groups and adjudicated festivals.
A retired research scientist, Bruce is always looking for new ways to understand and present ideas. He tries to weave many threads besides technique and choreography into his lessons. Music, sociability and physiology are his current favorites. People often say they come away with things to think about and ways to grow.
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Joanna Reiner Wilkinson has taught English dance for over two decades. In addition to being one of the leaders of the Philadelphia-based Germantown Country Dancers, her calling has taken her from Amherst to Ann Arbor, from NEFFA to Hey Days, from St. Croix to Vancouver, and other points abroad, including many sessions at Pinewoods Camp. While known for her clear calling and instruction, Joanna loves teaching workshops for ECD callers, and workshops that explore ECD technique,
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Kathy Talvitie is a musician, tune writer, and dancer. Based in the Philadelphia area, she plays piano for English country, Contra, and Scottish dancing, and guitar with the Contra Dance band Raise the Roof. Her sensitive and creative interpretation of tunes combines moments that range from spacious lyricism to powerful rhythmic drive. Being a dance musician brings her endless surprises and joy.
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Equally at home on fiddle and viola, Eric Martin is a dance musician who brings joy and soulful expression to many folk dance idioms. Through the freedom and improvisation inherent in traditional music, Eric enjoys the opportunity to break away from his Classical background while playing for English country dances, contra dances, festivals, balls, camps, and concerts throughout the United States, Canada, and Europe with Alchemy, Axelrod-Martin duo, and Coincidance. Eric holds performance degrees from Ithaca College and University of Limerick,
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Margaret Bary leads English Country and community dancing in New York City and beyond. She has been on staff at Pinewoods Family Week, Campers’ Week and other dance camps, teaching ECD, sword dance and classes for children and teens. As a member of Half Moon Sword, she hosts an annual sword dance festival, and performs locally, as well as at DART, NEFFA and the Marlboro Ale. Recently, Margaret along with her husband Jeff, have delved into dance choreography,
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Owen Morrison is an accomplished rhythm and lead guitarist, at home in many styles of traditional music. His playing, laced with rhythmic power and skillful finesse, has made him popular among dancers and fiddlers alike. Owen has toured the U.S. and abroad with bands such as Elixir, Airdance, Night Watch and The Morrison Brothers Band. A frequent staff member and Program Director at Pinewoods, Ashokan, Augusta, and many other camps.
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