{"id":1846,"date":"2012-02-07T08:00:59","date_gmt":"2012-02-07T13:00:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/allin\/?p=1846"},"modified":"2012-02-07T12:00:32","modified_gmt":"2012-02-07T17:00:32","slug":"question-of-the-day-may-i-have-this-dance","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/allin\/2012\/02\/07\/question-of-the-day-may-i-have-this-dance\/","title":{"rendered":"Question of the Day: May I have this dance?"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_1848\" style=\"width: 490px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-1848\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-full wp-image-1848\" title=\"danceband\" src=\"http:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/allin\/files\/2012\/02\/danceband.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"480\" height=\"210\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/allin\/files\/2012\/02\/danceband.jpg 480w, https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/allin\/files\/2012\/02\/danceband-300x131.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 480px) 100vw, 480px\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-1848\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Don Woodcock and friends played a variety of foxtrot, waltz and swing tunes.<\/p><\/div>\n<p>I attended a rare event this past Saturday night in Heuvelton:  a ballroom dance to live music.   Dancing to live music isn\u2019t rare, but as an amateur dance instructor, I\u2019m often asked about ballroom dance venues in the North Country.   Not rock or swing, but more traditional ballroom dances.   Where are they?<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_1847\" style=\"width: 250px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><img aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-1847\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-full wp-image-1847\" title=\"dancers\" src=\"http:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/allin\/files\/2012\/02\/dancers.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"240\" height=\"294\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-1847\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Doing the foxtrot at Pickens Hall.<\/p><\/div>\n<p>More than 50 folks filled the second floor of the historic Pickens Hall for the Heuvelton Historical Association\u2019s Winter Ball.<\/p>\n<p>I helped kick off the dancing Saturday night with basic foxtrot and waltz lessons for a very enthusiastic group of dancers.  It was so cool to see people of all ages on the dance floor.  Even better was the live music from the band made up of some \u201ctop shelf\u201d local musicians.    In an email after the dance, champion fiddler Don Woodcock (on keyboard and fiddle that night) told me, \u201cI haven&#8217;t seen people dance like that in years. It has become a lost art to do a foxtrot or a waltz especially here in the North Country. I grew up seeing dancing like that when I used to go as a kid with my father when he played at dances.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The Heuvelton group has another event scheduled for Saturday, February 25 at Pickens Hall and is planning an Irish dance in March.  Anyone know a traditional Irish jig?   The Cosmopolitan Club of Watertown has been going strong for years \u2013 their next evening of dinner and dancing is February 25 at the Black River Valley Club.   Bonnie and Doug (fabulous dancers!) will teach tango and samba at a ballroom dance party at the Clayton Opera House on Friday, February 17.   And, don\u2019t forget the 25th anniversary of Dance Flurry \u2013 three days of music and dancing, February 17, 18 and 19 in Saratoga Springs.<\/p>\n<h3><strong>The question of the day is: &#8220;So, where do you go to dance?&#8221;<\/strong><\/h3>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I attended a rare event this past Saturday night in Heuvelton: a ballroom dance to live music. Dancing to live music isn\u2019t rare, but as an amateur dance instructor, I\u2019m often asked about ballroom dance venues in the North Country. Not rock or swing, but more traditional ballroom dances. Where are they?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[6200],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/allin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1846"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/allin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/allin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/allin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/allin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1846"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/allin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1846\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1849,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/allin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1846\/revisions\/1849"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/allin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1846"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/allin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1846"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/allin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1846"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}