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'''Molly Hawkins '08''' learned to dance back home in Florida, learned to call from Jonathan in a [[Free University]] class during her freshman [[Winter Study]]. Came up to Jonathan in the first dance of her freshman year and asked if he could teach her to call. Thrust semi-unwillingly into a leadership position next year due to the great need and her undeniable fitness. Breaks her heart not to be able to dance all the time.
==Traditions==
Sometimes from the vision of one person and sometimes from the organic history of the whole community, the Folk have had the pleasure to see a number of traditions develop to decorate their year of dances.
===Halloween contradance===
Usually the biggest dance of the year, and the one most adorned with traditions, the Halloween Contradance has been a special dance since at least 2000. Attendees wear and dance in costume. The hall is decked out for the season, recently with colored streamers and balloons, jack-o'-lanterns, gourds, and corn stalks.
====Intermission====
Every contradance has an intermission at the midpoint, but the Halloween Dance's has always been special.
*'''2001,''' Bill Sacks 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 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.
Starting in 2002, the traditional last dance of Halloween has been The Wizard's Walk, and by a tradition begun spontaneously by the dancers, the whole hall calls a part of it.
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.''
