English Country Dance Atlanta

has been producing its annual dance weekend, Fandango!, since 1995. 

Below is a list of every year's caller and band. 

In addition, there are links to YouTube videos of select dances,

produced by Jim Crawford, local dancer and videographer.
(additional video clips can be found on Jim's page!)

2019 Fandango! --- Caller Joanna Reiner Wilkinson and Band Alchemy (Karen Axelrod, Rachel Bell, and Eric Martin

Weekend Workshops:

"Around the Corner"

This workshop will explore a variety of dances that feature corner figures. We'll explore longways and set dances, a variety of meters, old favorites, as well as recent compositions.

"Going in Circles"
ECD workshops are an opportunity to work on technique - not only new figures, but how to dance them well. This workshop will focus on circles, and how every dancer plays a part in creating satisfying circles in dances. This workshop will also review the more challenging ball dances.

"What's New?"
As a fun end to the weekend, we'll dance new and recent additions to the ECD canon. Requests welcome!

Saturday Evening Program:

The Ragg
Bellamira
Terry's Triad
Jack's Health
Companions
Siege of Limerick
Fandango
Michedonia

Plum Thursday
Leather Lake House
Whately Barn
Ashford Anniversary
Foxfire
Trip To Provence
Haymakers

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2018 Fandango! --- Caller Brooke Friendly with Band Roguery (Anita Anderson, Dave Bartley, Jim Oakden and Shira Kammen )

Saturday Morning Workshop:  "Unpublished Impropriety"
Saturday Afternoon Workshop:  "Dancing the Whole Dance" (including the following video clips)

 

The Fine Companion  https://youtu.be/RMzWLsAEI44

De Novo  https://youtu.be/HFtNYuLTFBk

 

Saturday Evening Ball (including the following video clips)

 

Marjorie's Sou'wester  https://youtu.be/hjnPOLU3P1U

Flora and Phaon  https://youtu.be/xh13_cMnYuc

A New Leaf  https://youtu.be/KyIGC0d_D7c

The Chocolate Equation  https://youtu.be/IjSSe-XxEcw

The Potter's Wheel  https://youtu.be/1FDVUVv968A

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2017 Fandango! ~~~ Caller Tom Amesse with band Bare Necessities (Kate Barnes, Mara Shea, Earl Gaddis and Jacqueline Schwab)

Saturday Morning ECD Workshop:  The Music Will Tell You What to Do
Saturday Afternoon Workshop:  Making Connections

Saturday Evening Ball  (dances with links to youtube have an asterisk after the name) 

Enfield Wash

Wa' is Me, What Mun I Do?*

Trip to Tunbridge*

Apollo's Hunt*

The Introduction

Mad Robin*

Blue Heron Waltz*

Horseplay*

Noisette*

The Fandango*

Cockleshells

Dunant House Waltz

Smithy Hill

Good Man of Cambridge

Saturday Afternoon Dances on YouTube: 

The Bishop*

Corelli's Maggot*

Mr. Isaac's Maggot*

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2016 Fandango! ~~~ Caller Joseph Pimentel with band Goldcrest (Daron Douglas, Paul Oorts & Dave Wiesler)

Saturday Morning ECD Workshop:  English Dances from the Goldcrest Collection
Saturday Afternoon Workshop:  Advanced English Country Dances

Saturday Evening Ball  (dances with links to YouTube have an asterisk after the name)

Mount Hills*

I Care Not for These Ladies*

Spring, The*

Come with Voices Singing*

Mrs. Hill's Dance*

News from Tripoli*

Mary K

We Meet Again

Fandango, The

Rafe's Waltz

Waltham Abbey

Well Done Jack

Dances from the Afternoon Sessions on YouTube:
Winter in Brasstown*
St. Margaret's Hill*
Mile of Smiles*

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2015 Fandango! ~~~ Caller  Brad Foster with band Foxfire!  ...A program chart is available here:    Dance List

Saturday Afte

rnoon Workshops:

   -- Morning Workshop:  The Art of Reconstruction

   -- Afternoon Workshop:  Modern Treasures

    Select Dance Videos:

Saint Margaret's Hill 
Whiskers
The Fandango
Shandy Hall

Key to the Cellar 

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2014 Fandango! ~~~ Caller Joanna Reiner with Music by Bare Necessities

Saturday morning’s workshop will be on maintaining symmetry and shape of the dance through phrasing and creating non-physical connections. Saturday afternoon will be on circles and squares - a look at set dances new and old. Sunday’s workshop will feature dances by Chris Sackett and Brooke Friendly - their dances are designed to be gender neutral and have great music!

Saturday Night "Ball" Videos:

Wa' is Me, What Mun I Do?

Dick's Maggot

Foxfire

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Fandango! 2013 ~~~ Caller Bruce Hamilton with Bare Necessities

Saturday Night "Ball" Videos:

Jacob Hall's Jig
Easter Morn
Candles in the Dark
Elverton Grove

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FANDANGO! 2012  ~~~ Caller Joanna Reiner with music by Karen Axelrod, Naomi Morse and Anna Patton

SATURDAY MORNING:  Dancing Wife; Heather Towers; From Inverness; Wa is Me; After Dinner Maggot; Hazelfern Place; Hudson Barn; Winter Solstice; Homecoming

SATURDAY AFTERNOON:  Mendocino Redwood; Astonished Archaeologist; Minor Spaniard; Autumn in Amherst; Mr Ganiford's Maggot; Dusty Miller; Impropriety; Sally in our Alley; Jack's Health

Leading Man; Thanks to Mr Playford; The Belle of the Ball; Fickle; A Southern Gentleman; Autumn Tapestry; Candles in the Dark

A survey of some of Fried's best dances, from the early publications in the 1970's through late masterpieces like "In the Sere," with elucidation of Fried's particular preferences in movement, music, and pedagogy. For over 40 years, Fried and Gene had periods of close agreement and collaboration as well as sharp disagreements, all of which helped shape Fried's legacy of teaching, recordings, and dances, and informed Gene's appreciation of her work in context.

"Nat'l. Kynaston and a Person of Quality"

Thousands of English country dances were published in the 17th and 18th centuries by John Playford, his successors, and competitors. With very few exceptions, none of the tunes or figures was attributed to the composer or choreographer. A major exception was Nathaniel Kynaston, to whom John Walsh devoted several editions of his annual collections of country dances from 1711 to 1718. Kynaston, in turn, promoted the dances of an anonymous contemporary, identified only as "a person of quality" in Walsh's collections. Both exhibit a distinctive "voice" in their creations and in the reconstructions by Tom Cook and Andrew Shaw that have made both popular.