Dance-related activities

Here’s a bit more info for those who will, from the bio written for the CDSS website in January 2020:

Nikki wants most of all to bring the joy, art, and human cooperation of dance, music, and song to as many people as possible. She has been active as a dancer, dance leader, dance organizer, and dance editor for most of her life. She started a contra dance series in Ukiah, CA, in the 1980s and helped start a series in Iowa City 25 years ago, both of which she is happy to say are still running. She served as the vice president of Country Dance Society, Boston Centre, for 4 years and helped produce the Boston Playford Ball for 15 years. She was a long-time member of the planning committees for the Bay Area (California) Country Dance Society’s summer dance camps at Mendocino, where she was on staff as an English Week musician and ran the camp bookstores and auctions. She chaired the CDSS Nominating Committee for 6 years, and in 2009 ran the bookstore and auctions at seven CDSS weeks at Pinewoods. She was a member of the CDSS Centennial Steering Committee and chair of the Midwest Camp Task Group, which established Dance, Music & Spice Week at Camp Cavell. She has been on the teaching staff at CDSS’s English Week and Early Music Week at Pinewoods. She edited Andrew Shaw’s latest book of English country dances, Elephants Stairs, and is the editor and distributor for his large body of not-yet-published work. She was the copy editor for Graham Christian’s The Playford Assembly and has had a hand in shaping many other dance books and articles about dance. She currently serves on the CDSS Governance Committee and the Community Culture & Safety Task Group and chairs the Pinewoods Camp, Inc. Relations Committee.

Nikki has found that spending half of each year in the Midwest allows for excellent access to wilderness canoeing, raptor rehabilitation work, and therapy dog outreach visits with her big dog Henry, while the half of the year spent in Florida is a great time to hike, photograph wildlife, and work on a never-ending list of house and yard projects. Fortunately, there are opportunities for dancing, making music, and singing with friends everywhere.