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 | | From: | David Millstone | | Subject: | Ted Sannella | | Date: | Wed, 19 Jan 2005 10:45:57 -0500 |
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 | I'm posting here a note I recently received from Mary Devlin and
Philippe Callens. Their e-mail addresses are near the end of the note,
so please write them directly with your thoughts. I agree with them
that Ted was an important and much-loved figure in recent American
dance history, and his many contributions deserve recognition.
David Millstone
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We are all looking forward to wonderful dance and music events in 2005.
Amongst other things 2005 will mark the tenth anniversary of Ted
Sannella's death. Ted passed away on 18 November 1995. Ted was our
common mentor and inspiration. His dance legacy is alive and we want to
help keep it alive for future generations.
We were just together at a Christmas dance camp where we starting
talking about Ted. We would like to do something special to remember
Ted this year, and hope you can join us in that.
We would like you to join us in declaring the ³week² of 11-20 November
2005 the Ted Sannella memorial dance week. What might we do to
commemorate Ted? One or more of Ted's dances could be programmed during
one of your community's contra dances. Perhaps you'd like to do an
evening of Ted's dances. Maybe fellow callers and musicians could tell
an anecdote or share photos to bring back memories. You might want to
put on a workshop and devote it to Ted's dances and philosophy. There
are many possibilities.
Whatever you would like to do that would work well for your local dance
community would be great. The important thing is that the commemoration
happen during November 11-20. We'd like to have dancers, callers,
musicians and organizers from all over thinking of Ted and his
contributions to the dancing we love and to our common dance heritage.
If you're interested in participating in this memorial dance event,
please contact Mary Devlin (mary@mdevlin.com) and/or Philippe Callens
(upcal01@yahoo.com). Let us know what you're thinking of doing. If itıs
OK with you, we can share plans among the participants.
Mary Devlin (Portland, Oregon)
Philippe Callens (Antwerp, Belgium)
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