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Quicksilver Country Dancers is an English Country Dance community that
holds monthly dances in Decatur, Georgia.
QCD
promotes and supports gender-neutral dancing, also known as global
terminology, in the tradition of the Lavendar Country Folk Dancers, Sun
Assembly, and the Heather & Rose Society. As stated by Heather &
Rose so eloquently:
“Our philosophy is
based upon community and inclusiveness. The emphasis is the whole of the
dance community and the whole of the dance. We promote community and
inclusiveness by teaching with global terminology, by not using gender
to determine who dances on what side or with whom . . . We feel this
inclusiveness builds a stronger community - you get to know and dance
with more people and everyone has an equal chance to dance rather than
members of the majority gender having to trade in; it is also more
welcoming to same gender couples. Added benefits come from dancers
learning the whole dance rather than just one side of it (you become a
better dancer by learning all aspects and knowing the whole pattern of
the dance).
QCD holds monthly English Country dances from September through June -
and primarily on the First Sunday of each month, unless a major holiday
conflicts -- see our Calendar and
Directions pages for our dance dates and
location.
QCD agrees with Jane Austen, who, in Emma, had this to say about
English country dancing, the dance form from which contra dancing
originates:
"It may be possible
to do without dancing entirely. Instances have been known of young
people passing many, many months successively without being at any ball of any
description, and no material injury accrue either to body or mind; but when a beginning is made--when the
felicities of rapid motion have once been, though slightly, felt--it must be a very heavy set that does not ask for more.
(emphasis added.)"
Once a start is made, it's impossible not to ask for more! Come
Dance with Us!!!
QCD is
a 501(c)(3) nonprofit organization. Donations are gratefully
accepted, and can be mailed to QCD at:
QuickSilver Country Dancers, Inc.
PO Box 451373
Atlanta, GA 31145
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