"Take Hands" is a documentary film about two things I think about often: dance and community.
It started in 2013. A renowned contra dance photographer, Doug Plummer, announced a Kickstarter campaign to fund his 2014 contra dance calendar. His 2013 contra dance calendar featured the blissful joy of contra dancing with scenes of people contra dancing in a variety of settings. Doug is a talented and mindful photographer! One of the benefits of sponsoring his 2014 calendar was set at the $250 level: "I'll come to your regularly scheduled community dance and photograph it, and you can use the photos for publicity. Anywhere in the country, travel included. You might make the 2015 calendar."
What an incredible deal! I couldn't pass this up. I sponsored Doug's Kickstarter campaign, and he came to Coos Bay to photograph South Coast Folk Society's dance in 2014. Here are some of the pictures Doug took of our community.
It started in 2013. A renowned contra dance photographer, Doug Plummer, announced a Kickstarter campaign to fund his 2014 contra dance calendar. His 2013 contra dance calendar featured the blissful joy of contra dancing with scenes of people contra dancing in a variety of settings. Doug is a talented and mindful photographer! One of the benefits of sponsoring his 2014 calendar was set at the $250 level: "I'll come to your regularly scheduled community dance and photograph it, and you can use the photos for publicity. Anywhere in the country, travel included. You might make the 2015 calendar."
What an incredible deal! I couldn't pass this up. I sponsored Doug's Kickstarter campaign, and he came to Coos Bay to photograph South Coast Folk Society's dance in 2014. Here are some of the pictures Doug took of our community.
Also in 2013, the Country Dance & Song Society (CDSS is the umbrella organization for South Coast Folk Society) announced exciting plans for their 2015 centennial celebration. They invited their 300 affiliate organizations to apply to be a stop on their Centennial Tour. In addition to having their usual weeklong camps, CDSS would send musicians, dance and song leaders on the road. On behalf of South Coast Folk Society, I applied. Remarkably, we were one of six organizations across North America chosen to host the CDSS Centennial Tour. Our community was the only west coast tour stop. That's us - on the far left of the map!
So when Doug came to Coos Bay to shoot publicity pictures in 2014, we were in the throes of planning our weeklong extravaganza of music, dance and song that would be held in October, 2015. The converging of two interesting events had begun.
Doug liked our community. He liked our plans for reaching out to our community to spread the joy of music, dance and song. He decided to make a documentary about the South Coast Folk Society and what we were doing to create a larger dance community.
The culmination of Doug's work over the past 8 years is coming into sight. At the "Take Hands" website, you can see the trailer, meet the characters and crew, and learn where/when you can watch the film.
Doug liked our community. He liked our plans for reaching out to our community to spread the joy of music, dance and song. He decided to make a documentary about the South Coast Folk Society and what we were doing to create a larger dance community.
The culmination of Doug's work over the past 8 years is coming into sight. At the "Take Hands" website, you can see the trailer, meet the characters and crew, and learn where/when you can watch the film.
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