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<\/a>This is the beautiful dance hall at Ogontz, New Hampshire. In this photo we are doing an American contra dance.<\/p><\/div>\n
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<\/a>Our American teachers Linda Brooks and Ross Schipper are to the left, with Bitten and Sven Olsson, who came from Sweden to teach at this camp, on the right in costume.<\/p><\/div>\n
<\/a>Eating on the deck with a view of the lake and the dance hall.<\/p><\/div>\n
<\/a>Jamming and clog dancing on the deck before dinner.<\/p><\/div>\n
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For the Scandinavian dance camps we invite really good teachers every year from Norway and Sweden, as well as fiddlers for the dance traditions to be taught, and a nyckelharpa teacher. Camps have been conducted in the Mendocino Woodlands north of San Francisco, California since\u00a01981 or so, and in the East Coast (Nordic Fiddles and Feet, first at Buffalo Gap, West Virginia, now \u00a0moved to Ogontz, New Hampshire) since 1985. Each year about 100-120 people come together during specific weeks in the summer and spend the week learning new dances and\/or tunes, or reviewing dances or tunes learned before, and eating wonderful food and having concerts and dance parties.<\/p>\n