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Of the Folk's approximate ten monthly dances, two are usually professional bands and callers and the remaining are played by Rude Cider and called by students. Two dances, one near Halloween and one near Valentine's, are themed dances with traditions. The Folk also coordinate trips to dances occuring in the area, most commonly in [[Greenfield]] with [http://www.wildasparagus.com Wild Asparagus] and other bands, [[North Adams]] with the [http://mysite.verizon.net/daleott/garbanzos/ Flying Garbanzos], or regional dance festivals like the [http://www.danceflurry.org Dance Flurry] and [http://www.neffa.org/ New England Folk Festival].
The current contact person for the Folk is Molly Hawkins[[Maia McCormick]], <email>Amelia.A.E.Hawkinsmm11@williams.edu</email>. [[Ariel Heyman]] and [[Daniel Rosensweig]] are the co-chairs for Contact her with any questions, or to be added to the fall 2006 seasondancing folk listserve, while Molly where dances will be away from campuspublicized.
==History in people==
The intermission of the Halloween Dance has always been special.
*'''2001,''' Bill Sacks '03 dropped fake paper money from the ceiling for dancers to scramble for, one of which was marked as a "winner", and traded in for a prize. Heather Brutz '02 performed a dance on stilts for the crowd.
*'''2003,''' Bill Sacks's old purple plastic sandbox was cleaned out after its long repose near the [[Forest Garden]] compost pile and filled with water for the first intermission bobbing for apples. This was followed by the first intermission mop the floor after bobbing so we don't break our necks.
*'''2004''''s intermission featured [[Halloween Contradance intermission 2004|an elaborate contest]], in which ten [[Odd Quad]]ders competed against ten non-Odds (including some Odds who joined them to even things up) competed in three apple events.
After the Halloween Dance, all dancers and friends are invited to sleep over at the [[Outing Club cabin]], where the spend the night singing largely from the folky songbook ''Rise Up Singing.''
===Valentine's Day contradance===
Scheduling made the February contradance arrive every year near Williams' [[Winter Carnival]] and Valentine's Day. The former was used in billing the February dance until 2003, when Jonathan decided to try his hand at adding a theme to a previously themeless dance. He chose [[Currier ballroom]] and enhanced that space's romantic ambiance with decorations. As a crowning touch, three dozen roses were saved as a surprise for the final waltz, and then placed in the teeth of the girl in each couple as they danced. This tradition continued for years after, though crappy funding from the [[Cosponsorship Fund]] required the substition of carnations in 2005.
===Dance Flurry===
Very close to the Valentine's Day dance, sometimes even the morning after, the Folk travel together to big folk dance festival in Saratoga Springs, the [http://www.danceflurry.org Dance Flurry]. About a dozen Folk attend, and the club provides trasportation through college vans and private cars. Many years, the club has been able to stay the night(s) with friends at Skidmore, once in exchange for holding a (rather poorly attended) dance for their dance club.
==Links==
* The [http://wso.williams.edu/PhotoShare/album?id=112 online photo album] of [[Dancing Folk]], with captioned pictures of [[contradance]]s at Williams from 2001 - 2005.
* [[Anna Tsykolova]] '08's [http://www.wurble.net/gallery/contradance Phrontistery of Pixels, contradance album], with dances from 2004 - 2007. Anna is the amazing photographer who began taking contradance pictures as soon as she started coming her freshman year.