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David

Balkan is the new Black

About Me

Well, I am a chef and a house manager (essentially a Butler) and that is taking up all my time right now. My primary interest outside is dance, and supporting the live music that allows me to practice what I love. My passions include contra and square dancing, English Country, English Rapper and Longsword (see videos), Cotswold Morris, Zydecco and Cajun, a bit of swing, Scandinavian, some Balkan, flat footing (kinda like clogging). Lots of stuff, and lots of stuff yet to learn, too.I remember seeing an Irish step dancer when I was like 4 and being blown away by it. I wanted to dance. My parents didn't do anything about it concretely, but they did end up starting contra dancing in St. Louis and taking me to lots of folk festivals. My first time I was at Pinewoods I was probably 7. Ended up working there years later, which gave me a lifetime of friends, a career, and at the time, a wife. It was a gift. So now a lot of my time is spent promoting that which I love: I am on the board of the Folklore Society of Greater Washington, and expect that I will do more and more as the years roll on.http://fsgw.org/http://www.pinewoods.org/http://www.cdss. org/http://www.contracast.com/ A quiet moment with dogs 2

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My Interests

Dance, friends, art, pyschoanalysis, dogs, food, wine, musicDavid and Farooz

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I'd like to meet:

Interesting people that share my love and interesting people that can turn me on to new things.

Music:

oh man...Steve Jordan, Bob Wills, Rodney Miller, Alexander Mitchell, David Knight, Hanneke Cassell, Ralph Gordon, Jaqueline Schwab, Louis Killen, The Balkanics, Willie Nelson, Brave Combo, Geoff Seitz, Dave Langford, Stuart Kenney, Elke Baker, John Roberts, Tony Barrand, Beverly Smith, Thelonious Monk, Desmond Dekker, Johnny Cash, Junkyard Saints, Yuri Yukanov, Ivo Papasov, Kossoy Sisters, Martin Carthy, Aimee Mann...shit this is rediculous...Mostly traditional and neo traditional and roots music --

Movies:

Cutting Edge Rapper Perfroms at Glen Echo Park


At the FSGW Sunday Night Dance
Cutting Edge first performance of the Dance We Know. Notice our vast improvement in the subsequent performance! Jerry slices the hell out of himself.

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Cutting Edge performs Kirkby Malzeard at Old Reformed Church in Brooklyn, Feb 16, 2007, Half Moon Sword Ale

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Cutting Edge performs "The Dance We Know" in NYC at the 21st Annual Sword AleCutting Edge Performs "The New Dance" at the Folklore Society of Greater Washington Mini FestThese are some Boston kids that absolutely rock. Candy Rapper

New Moon Sword Rapper Dance


New York City based traditional English Sword Dance Team New Moon Sword perform a rapper dance. Performed to live music at The Brooklyn Museum.

Orion dances Mr. Halpern's sword dance


Danced at the Marlboro Morris Ale 2006 h3Orion performs a massive Sandy Boys
South Newfane, VT 2006

Television:


You Are Gonzo the Great
"Is something burning in here? Oh, it's just me."
You're a total nutball who will do anything for attention.
The first to take a dare, you'll pull almost any stunt.
You're one weird looking creature, but your chickens don't mind! The Muppet Personality Test

Books:

Lots -- I'll go and figure out the titles one of these days

Heroes:

All that suffer yet strive towards consciousness.