The oddest thing I do when I'm not blogging microfinance is English folk dancing. England has a wealth of dance traditions, and I do many of them. Maybe sometime I will write more fully about my past and present in these traditions, but for now I will be brief.I belong to a sword dance group here in Washington, DC, called Cutting Edge. We do longsword dancing and rapper sword. This coming weekendThe weekend after next, President's Day Weekend[!], we and about a dozen other groups will congregate in New York for two days of dance hosted by the local group Half Moon Sword. We will dance for each other and for whoever shows up at the free, indoor, public venues.My group's schedule, in case you are in New York and need an excuse to break some other engagement:SaturdayAll groups9:00 AM Staten Island Ferry Terminal, 1 Whitehall St @ South StUs & two really great groups1:00 PM Museum of the City of NY, 1220 5th Ave (103rd/104th St)3:00 PM Aguilar Branch Library, 174 E 110th St (Lexington/3rd Ave)SundayUs & three other groups I mostly know less well12:30 PM First Unitarian Church of Brooklyn, Pierrepont & Monroe St, BrooklynAll groups2:30 PM Brooklyn Museum (in the Auditorium), 200 Eastern Parkway, BrooklynHere are a couple of videos from our first appearance at this event, five years ago, when we were just a year old. We've improved since. The first is rapper, the second longsword:
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