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Welcome to the Asheville Area Family Dance!


Family Dance for Rainbow Mountain School


  • February 28, 2009 (Saturday early evening)

  • Family contra dance, 6 – 8 p.m.

  • Join Rainbow Mountain Children’s School community for a dance for anyone who can walk—young, old, and in-between! No dance experience necessary.

  • Diane Silver is calling, Lew Gelfond and Laurie Fisher are providing live music.

  • Adults $5, children $3 or under 2 free. Family maximum $12.

  • Come to the Salvation Army Boys and Girls Club gymnasium near corner of Haywood Road and Brevard Road in West Asheville. Park and enter from Brevard Road.

  • Soft-soled shoes, no alcohol.

  • Call 258-9264 for more information.
The monthly family dance is on hold until new leadership is organized to continue offering the dances. If you'd like to help keep the Family Dance alive, please contact Diane at 828 298 7084.


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Circles, mixers, contras, squares, and other set dances.


All dances taught and called
with high-energy live string band music!

 

This dance is aimed at beginning dancers and families with kids.
If you're looking for a friendly, no-pressure atmosphere to enjoy easy dances with solid teaching, this is it!

 

All ages welcome; no experience necessary.

 

Adults: $5.00.    Ages 2 - 16:  $3.00    Under 2:  Free
Family Maximum:  $15.00
(Friends and neighbors do not count as part of your family,
but DO bring them along).


General Format

young dancers
5:00 p.m.: Brown Bag supper - bring your own supper and enjoy eating together.
6:00 - 7:30: Family Dance, aimed at families with children under 10.   Long sets, scatter dances, singing games, etc.
7:45 - 8:15: Adult Contra Dance Workshop
8:15 - 11:15: Join the regular adult contra dance.

Note: Regular admission for the adult dance is $7.00. Adults wishing to stay will be asked for an additional admission of $2.00, to add to their $5.00 admission for the Family Dance.

Also note: A side room off the dance hall is available for children to play or sleep. Parents who wish to stay for the adult dance will be asked to sign up to take turns supervising the play room. Parents are encouraged to bring games and books, or sleeping bags, to help children enjoy their time while parents are dancing.

For safety reasons, non-dancing children need to stay off the dance floor. Parents' assistance is requested in this matter.



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Schedule:


Date

Time

Band

Caller

Location -- see below for directions
Dances are on hold until new leadership is organized to continue offering the dances. If you'd like to help keep the Family Dance alive, please contact Diane at 828 298 7084.

 
Please bring your own everything for the brown bag supper, and a water bottle for the dance.

  Locations:
Note:  The Family Dance takes place at various locations, depending on scheduling and availability of our venues.  Please check the schdule above to see where this month's dance is being held. Click here for a map with all dance locations marked -- you can zoom in and out and scroll around to follow your best route to any of our venues.

Calvary Episcopal Church:
2840, Hendersonville Road, Fletcher, NC

From Asheville (or north):

From Hendersonville (or south):
  • Take Hwy. 25 (Hendersonville Road) North toward Fletcher, OR
  • Follow I-26 west to exit 44 [old exit 13], and then follow Hwy. 25 North toward Fletcher.
  • Calvary is located approximately 4 miles from Smiley's Flea Market, on the right, (across from Ingle's Supermarket).
Swannanoa 4-H Education Center:
  • I-40, Exit 59 -- Left off ramp if coming from Asheville; Rt. off ramp if coming from Black Mtn. or points East.
  • Right at the light onto U.S. 70.
  • Left at the first light onto Whitson; over the bridge and right onto Old U.S. 70.
  • Go one mile.  Left onto Eastwood (look for the sign for the 4-H Education Center).
  • At the end, bear right onto Woodland.
  • Go past the entrance to Camp Woodson.  Enter 4-H Center at the next yellow gate, on the right.
  • Park in upper or lower parking lot.
  • Dance is held in the main lodge, and occassionally in the dance hall behind the lodge in warm weather.
Asheville Jewish Community Center (JCC):
236 Charlotte Street.
  • I-240, Exit 5B -- go north on Charlotte Street -- away from downtown.
  • Turn left at Hillside.  The JCC is on the corner of Charlotte and Hillside.
For a map click here.

Warren Wilson College - Bryson Gym:
Click here for map and directions.

As you approach the college on Warren Wilson Road, go past the service entrance, past the South entrance, and past the North Entrance. Just after the North Entrance, turn right into the Kittredge Parking lot. Walk up the stairs and through the breezeway, past the Kittredge music center. Bryson gym is the next building in front of you.


Questions? Or if you have a good potential site for future dances, call 828-298-7084 or e-mail.

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Diane Silver
Family Dance caller Diane Silver, dancing and calling.
Photo by Bob Bennett


Thanks to Cinnamon Kennedy for the photos on this page.

If you or your child are in a photo on this page, and you prefer not to have your picture posted, please e-mail me and I will be happy to remove the photo.
-- Diane Silver