In the Winter 2011 issue of English Dance & Song magazine (and as a finale to a year of features celebrating the centenary of the English Folk Dance Society), we published an article 'Folk Dancing - Present and Future' which contained comments from a selection of callers, musicians and dancers from right across the folk dance spectrum, from Playford to Ceilidh. As editor, I asked for further comments, and most of these were published in the current issue, Spring 2012.
In order to widen the discussion, and also to get more suggestions for tackling some of the issues raised, the original article is now available as a pdf on both of these two pages given below.
I would welcome further comments, from members and non-members alike.
Thanks
Derek Schofield
Editor

www.efdss.org/eds/edsbyyear/year/2011

www.efdss.org/eds/edsbyyear/year/2012