My first front page article! Moving up in the world! This has never occurred before in the long history of Traunstein sword dance: The appearance…
U.S. Researcher as a Guest Dancer Sword Dance: A Yank Swings his Sword The sword dance is a unique spectacle in Traunstein, whose origins date…
For the first time in the history of the dance we have a guest dancer in our midst. Jeremy Carter-Gordon studied Ethnochoreology at Bard Collage, Annandale-on-Hudson,…
On the boat from Split to Lastovo I encountered the least D.A.R.E-friendly emergency instructions card that I have ever come across. In other news, the boat…
I had a few days of relative calm after the carnival in Eibar in which I got to go to a few more practices with…
I awoke in a panic to hear music playing in the street outside, “Damn, the sword dancing must have started already!” I grabbed my gear…
The story really continues in the small town of Villanueva de los Cruces on the 2oth of January, during the festival of San Sebastian where…
There was one last sword dance in Basque Country that took place in the fall, and it felt like something of a homecoming for me….
I managed to navigate talking on the phone in Spanish sufficiently to call a taxi to take me to the bus station and after some…
So I got the Watson Fellowship and I get to go study sword dancing! [slideshow] As you can tell, this has been a dream since…