Terpsichore's Holiday Folk Dance Camp

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Terpsichore's Holiday Folk Dance Camp

Terpsichore's Holiday, December 27-January 1 each year. A week of music, art, and dance for kids, teens, and adults. Art projects, nature walks, and more.

Contra, square, and English dancing, singing, dance band, instruments. Intergenerational dance and music camp for the holidays

04/08/2026

We have more people who want to attend Terp than we can accommodate! Share your ideas on how to manage registration. Attend a one-hour Zoom meeting on Sunday April 19 at 4pm ET / 3pm CT or Thursday April 23 at 8pm ET/ 7pm CT, and fill out a survey afterwards. Watch your email and the Terpsichore’s Holiday Community Group on Facebook for the meeting link. If you aren’t on our email list already, sign up at the link in bio.

01/03/2026

Happy new year! This was another incredible year at Terpsichore’s Holiday. Thanks to everyone (all 230 of you) for bringing your songs, dancing feet, smiles, and stories to join together in community and welcome in 2026. There’s nowhere else we’d rather be than with you!

Please fill out our post-camp evaluation and add your photos to our shared album. Help us make camp better for next year. Thanks to Leigh Partington for this beautiful New Year’s Day sunrise photo.

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12/19/2025

We can hardly believe that we’ll be together in just over a week (right?? what is time). Check your emails for the hot-off-the-presses Camper Letter, which hopefully answers all of your questions. And the questions you didn’t even know you had! Do please forward the email to everyone you registered, as they likely haven’t received it.

Happy holidays to all, be safe, stay warm, and see you so soon!

11/30/2025

We’re thrilled to have Noah VanNorstrand returning to camp this year! If Noah’s playing, you know the music and energy will be fabulous.

Noah VanNorstrand’s driving fiddle, feet and mandolin have been a rhythmic powerhouse behind some of the most popular dance bands of the last decade including Great Bear, Buddy System, Wake Up Robin and The Faux Paws. He has performed all over North America at nearly two hundred different dance weekends, folk festivals and music camps. His musicianship is deeply compelling and virtuosic but difficult to define; freely blending traditional folk genres such as Celtic and Old-time Appalachian fiddling with elements of rock, newgrass and pure unfiltered improvisation. His unique approach to foot percussion and innate understanding of dynamics and groove have made him a defining figure of modern contra dance music.

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11/28/2025

Are you registered for Terpsichore? Did you get this email? If not — check your spam folder, we have updates and information for you! And it’ll help you later when we send the full camper letter with all your questions answered (hopefully 😉).

Can you believe that camp starts in less than 1 month?!??

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11/17/2025

Terpsichore wouldn’t be Terpsichore without Kappy Laning! Though she’s retired from the organizing committee, Kappy will be joining us at camp to teach Rapper dancing to the 9-12s and Garland dancing to the 6-8s.

Kappy Laning has been teaching children, teens and adults English ritual dances for many years at CDSS and LSF intergenerational camps and local schools. She enjoys adapting traditional ritual dances (rapper, longsword, garland and border morris) to create a fun and dynamic experience while meeting the needs of the students. Kappy was the CDSS Camp Director for CDSS Cascade week (formerly known as Adult and Family week (Buffalo Gap/Timber Ridge/Camp Louise) for 25 years and organized Terpsichore for for 10 years. Kappy is also a Contra, English dance, and family dance caller and musician. She is an Integrative Breathwork Practitioner and recently retired as a Pediatric Nurse Practitioner. She danced with Charm City Rapper, Frayed Knot Rapper and Court Square Garland Dancers for many years.

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11/12/2025

We’re incredibly lucky to be welcoming the Orner Family back to Terpsichore this year! Claire and Rusty will be teaching a morning class for the 2-5s and leading their beloved nature walk. Walker and Blue will be teaching mosaic & stained glass making to the 6-8 year olds.

The Orner Family comes to you from Quiet Creek Herb Farm & School of Country Living in NW Pennsylvania. Since 1996 Quiet Creek, this nonprofit farm school, has implemented a vision of sharing natural resource conservation, ecological thinking, and healthy sustainable living. Claire and Rusty with their kids, Walker and Blue, and hundreds of volunteers have carried out Quiet Creek’s mission on a 30 acre farm featuring herb and vegetable gardens, orchards, renewable energy, earthen buildings, and natural waterways. These Quiet Creek stewards educate thousands of PreK to Grey students by engaging them in hands-on experiences such as bread making, soap making, worm composting and more. Claire is the eco-curriculum designer and grant writer; Rusty is the lead teacher and artistic engineer; Walker is an illustrator who hosts a creative youtube channel where he draws animals and shares interesting facts; and Blue has experience as an avid youth nature educator.

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11/02/2025

We can’t wait to hear what songs Julie Gregorio is planning to teach us this year! She will be teaching Harmony Singing and leading songs all week long.

Julie has led singing classes at Terpsichore’s Holiday and Timber Ridge. A professional classical singer, she has appeared in operas, oratorios, and choirs around the Northeast. As a teacher, she is interested in the blurry boundary between folk and classical music, and in teaching singers to think about harmony in a way that is both fun and empowering. She thinks that nothing is more magical than singing in community with friends.

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10/27/2025

Another newcomer to Terpsichore, we’re so excited to dance to the calling of Scott Higgs at camp this year!

For over 25 years, Scott Higgs has traveled the world (25 states and 6 foreign countries) calling
contras and English country dances. Scott leads dancing in ways that make everyone welcome:
offering nuances to engage experts, with a light-hearted approach that helps novices feel
comfortable and successful. His English dance programs span the spectrum from exuberant to
Elegant. Scott has been a featured caller at Pinewoods Camp (20+ times), Buffalo Gap, Mendocino, and
Ashokan, among others. His inventive dance choreographies have become part of the standard
repertoire for many callers. For the succinct version of Scott’s dance outlook, he generally just quotes his business card: “Playful, spirited, elegant, zesty, joyful Contra, English, Morris, and Couple Dancing.”

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10/19/2025

Katie Zukof is a longtime Terpsichore attendee and teacher, and we’re so glad to have her on staff again this year! She’ll be teaching 2-5s in the morning and sharing Irish social dances with 9-12s in the afternoon.

Katie is a professional recess supervisor, elementary school Spanish teacher, caller and mother of two girls. A lifelong dancer, she resides in Bloomington, Indiana where she has been contra dancing and clogging since 2007, calling since 2009 and dancing salsa rueda de casino since 2023. In the summer of 2025, she received an Eli Lilly Teacher Creativity Grant to study Irish Set Dancing and its accompanying percussive steps in Counties Clare, Cork, Kerry and Leitrim. She has previously led children’s art classes, dance classes, outdoor games and mummers’ plays at Terpsichore’s Dance Holiday, Pinewoods Camp and Cumberland Dance Week.

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10/11/2025

We’re thrilled to welcome Carrie Rose to Terpsichore this year! Carrie will be playing for English country dancing as part of Snapdragon (with .weinberg and Dave Wiesler).

As a flutist, composer, and educator, Carrie Rose’s diverse musical pursuits include wailing out avant-garde music, unfurling luscious classics with orchestras, grooving for folk dances, and playing while hanging from tree branches. Breathing In Nature concerts on YouTube feature Rose playing in streams, meadows, flower gardens and up in a tree. She also performs radical operas with the IN Series company, and was a featured soloist on the Telemann Suite in A minor with the Paragon Philharmonia. Rose produces the Origins Concert Series (a hub for adventurous music-seekers) in Silver Spring, Maryland, and in DC’s City Paper, she was named a “favorite local composer”. Throughout the country, Rose plays for English Country and Contra Dances, and even inspired feet to move on St Croix, U.S. Virgin Islands. Rose is an enthusiastic private flute teacher in Takoma Park, Maryland and co-directs Flute-a-rama Summer Camps.

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3035 Buckeystown Pike
Adamstown, MD
21710

Website

http://www.danceholiday.net/

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