The Dance Gypsy strives to provide the information needed by dancers throughout the United States and Canada. I now field more than 1000 separate requests for information every day!
Because the Dance Gypsy started in Vermont, many people think of it as primarily a contra dance listing or as primarily a Vermont guide. In reality, I attempt to provide a complete directory to dance related information. I have two major listings, plus a few smaller ones:
- The Dance Schedules are a New England-centric listing of all regularly scheduled dances (including contra, Scottish, English, international, Balkan, Israeli, squares, ballroom, swing, tango and other traditional dance forms) within our region (New England, plus those parts of New York and Canada that are adjacent to New England (e.g., Albany or Montreal)). I currently list over 500 events each month in this section.
- The Festival Planner lists as many festivals and “special” events (less frequent than “monthly”) as possible. This section includes dances across the entire 50 states plus Canada. The Festival Planner now includes almost 500 events annually.
- Other information includes:
- guides to performers: dance bands, musicians, callers, and instructors — including gig lists.
- Dance resources: guides to vendors,dance organizations, other dance indices, and even foreign dance sites.
- Services for dance organizations such as: advertising, websites and Email forwarding.
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The Dance Gypsy lists all appropriate events without charge to either reader or dance venue. Some dance-index websites charge dance organizations a fee for inclusion in their listings. However, our belief is that the most valuable resource to the reader is one which lists all dances — not just those with a sponsoring organization rich enough to afford a fee. Any fee-based listing service is necessarily incomplete — and I aim to be complete! I will continue to offer this service without charge as long as possible.
Alas this does mean that I need to seek funding through other means. Presently this means I accept ads, offer services to dance organizations and conduct occasional voluntary fund drives similar to Public Broadcasting.
For information about how you can support the Dance Gypsy, click here. The Dance Gypsy does accept advertising in its web pages, but only for dance-related events and products. For more information on advertising, click here.
For more information, please contact me directly.
To make sure your dance is listed in the Dance Gypsy, send me the relevant information
The annual Dance Gypsy Summer Planner, started in 1994 has evolved into the Dance Gypsy Festival Planner — a comprehensive listing of dance-related festivals, dance weeks and weekends throughout the USA. The Summer Planner, like the Dance Gypsy itself is now available only on line and is maintained on an ongoing basis listing events for one year into the future. As with the regular dance listings, there is no charge for listing an event in the Dance Gypsy Summer Planner , but I do accept ads to high-light your event.
The pages at this site —
www.thedancegypsy.com— are the only web pages provided by the Dance Gypsy organization. Older addresses are no longer supported. If your site links to the older pages (www.dancegypsy.com) I would appreciate your updating those links as soon as possible as such links result in mostly empty pages (and unhappy dancers). If this or any other page belonging to the Dance Gypsy appear as part of any site other than www.thedancegypsy.com, that constitutes a violation of U.S. Copyright law — and I would appreciate it if you would let me know.What about that other “Dance Gypsy” web site? Actually there are at least four other sites claiming the name “Dance Gypsy”:
www.dancegypsy.orgis the name used by a dance group in California. As of this writing, their site is empty and should cause no confusion.Karl Senseman has a large collection of dance pictures at dgweb.homelinux.net/MyDancePage/
Kiran Wagle also uses the name “Dance Gypsy” on some of his pages. He has used the term since at least the year 2000, but his pages are pretty much self contained and should not cause too much confusion.
Mark Gaines runs a site containing dance info for dances in Chicago and Milwaukee at www.geocities.com/dansegypsy/
Chris Booth also has a page called “Dance Gypsy”. Chris’s site was briefly affiliated with the Dance Gypsy in 1999, but has not been affiliated with the Dance Gypsy since early 2001. This page probably causes more confusion than all the others because it is very easy to get there by forgetting to type “the” within the Dance Gypsy’s name. His current page also causes some confusion because it contains an Email pointer to the Dance Gypsy“s editor, with the implication that it is part of the Dance Gypsy. But despite anything implied in those pages, there is no connection between his site and this one.
In general you can always tell web pages affiliated with the Dance Gypsy by their salmon color and by the words “The Dance Gypsy” appearing near the upper left corner.
Except where explicitly indicated to the contrary (e.g., the photographs by Sean Reid), all content on any page within the Dance Gypsy website are the sole property of Greg Scragg and the Dance Gypsy, and are copyrighted, registered with the United States Copyright Office and all right reserved. One exception: use is hereby granted for any fair use, such as copying a single listing for promotion of your group or event, or printing a paper copy for your personal use. Permission is explicitly denied for any extended copies such as a list of all dances of a particular type within a particular geographic area. Permission is also explicitly denied for inclusion of any Dance Gypsy page (or copy thereof) within other websites. If you would like permission for a specific use, please write me and I will probably grant it.
Sean Reid generously provided photographs for the Dance Gypsy for these web pages. He holds the copyrights on all photographs included within the Dance Gypsy. They are published here with his permission — but no permission has been extended for further reproduction. So far I have not been able to do justice to his great service. The current picture on the home page is from the Walpole, NH dance (3rd Saturdays). Sean is currently working on a major photo-documentation project featuring many of the dances in central New England. In the near future I will feature additional photographs on these pages. In the mean time, you can see samples of his work at: http://www.motorcycletours.com/northeastern/dance.htm
Until March 2000, the Dance Gypsy was primarily a paper-based newsletter describing folk and traditional dance events in New England. The Dance Gypsy Summer Planner was an annual publication listing festivals across the country. Those two publications plus more are now combined into these web pages. For a longer history of this evolution, see a short history of the Dance Gypsy.
This page last reformatted on Fri, Jan 21, 2005
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