Chgo Trib: Couple Who Found Love Later In Life... on the Dance Floor

 

Article begins:  "Sanna Longden and Clint Seely were in their 70s when they met in 2016 at a dance at the annual Door County Folk Festival..."

Here's the link if you have a subscription:

https://www.chicagotribune.com/2025/02/14/seniors-find-love-later-in-life/ 

Here's a shareable link that hopefully lets you read the article without being stopped by the paywall, at least for a while:  https://www.chicagotribune.com/2025/02/14/seniors-find-love-later-in-life/?share=cie0pteioma2wecipioi

 

NY Times article: "Why Don't We Dance More?"

 Henry shared this NYT article in his weekly folk dance newsletter:

https://www.nytimes.com/2023/12/02/briefing/why-dont-we-dance-more.html?unlocked_article_code=1.FE0.7kH9.kl2D541iYBcU&hpgrp=c-abar&smid=em-share

The above link is a free sharing link that should work for about 30 days before it expires.

Here's the trailer of the CBC documentary referenced in the article:

AP story: Dance After Lockdown

 https://news.yahoo.com/months-lockdown-weary-world-ready-113352720.html

 "Even in the depths of the pandemic -- even when the world locked down, leaving billions isolated and desolated -- there were those who danced...."

 

CSM article about folk dancing

 The most recent Report to Members from the Society of Folk Dance Historians referenced this article from a recent Christian Science Monitor:

Folk dance discovery: How one unlikely dancer found grace - CSMonitor.com

 

Bardcore Macarena Medieval Cover, and others

 I stumbled across this on youtube this morning:

 

 

And quite a few others, for example:

Popcorn (Medieval Cover)
Y.M.C.A. (Medieval Cover)
Ievan Polkka (Medieval Cover) 
Dragostea Din Tei (Numa Numa) (Medieval Cover) 

According to https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bardcore "Bardcore (from the Celtic word “bard” meaning ‘poet’ or ‘storyteller’)^[1] or tavernwave is a 2020 internet phenomenon consisting of medievalised remakes of hit pop songs.^[2]" 

Here's an article about it: https://www.theguardian.com/music/2020/jun/24/never-mind-the-ballads-how-bardcore-took-over-pop-music 

Articles about exercise and COVID, masks

There was an article in yesterday's Chicago Tribune (sourced from the New York Times) with the headline "Eyeing the Future of Group Exercise".  Here's a clipping:



Both the Trib and the NYT have paywalls, but here are links to a couple of other articles about the same thing, if you don't have the necessary subscriptions:

https://www.today.com/health/coronavirus-group-exercise-are-classes-safe-coronavirus-risk-gyms-t183428

https://people.com/health/group-workouts-linked-coronavirus-infection/

I suppose the recommendation of "proper air circulation" means that we couldn't complain when a certain person-who-shall-remain-nameless opens the window in the dead of winter 😀  Assuming we are meeting in person again by then...

There are also lots of articles about wearing masks during exercise, here are a few:

https://www.usatoday.com/story/life/2020/06/10/face-mask-gym-debate-coronavirus-safety-precaution/3161272001/

https://www.cnet.com/health/how-to-exercise-with-a-face-mask/

https://www.chicagotribune.com/coronavirus/sns-nyt-exercising-wearing-mask-coronavirus-20200623-pwnpzgz5rve4nlm4s4g4p3zwku-story.html

TIME: Why Dancing Is the Best Thing You Can Do For Your Body

http://time.com/4828793/dancing-dance-aerobic-exercise/

Dance floors tend to be sweaty places for a reason. All of those shimmies and shakes burn energy like you wouldn’t believe—and come with many other surprising health benefits, too. When you cut a rug, you can expend more than 300 calories every half-hour, according to a report from the University of Brighton in the UK. That meets or exceeds the amount of energy you burn during an easy run or swim, the report shows. Even relatively tame forms of dance burn about the same number of calories as...  Read the full story

NYT Article: Dancing May Be Best for the Brain

Roo alerted us to this interesting article:

https://www.nytimes.com/2017/03/29/well/walk-stretch-or-dance-dancing-may-be-best-for-the-brain.html

BBC: Dancing robots reveal cultural cues

Seems like this study is related to what we call "the folk process" and "we do it differently in our village" :-)

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-18352293

"Prior to being let loose, some of the robots had been programmed to perform different dances - essentially an intricate series of movements.
The researchers planned to find out how culture and shared behavioural traditions got passed on by studying how the robots told each other about these dances."