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Mary Devlin leads contras, English Country dance, triplets, and squares. She's known for calling dances that emphasize great connections.

She teaches workshops in dance calling, neurolinguistic programming (NLP) insights applied to dance leadership, contra, English Country dance, and couple dancing.

Besides calling and dancing, Mary was President of the Country Dance and Song Society from 2003 to 2006. She also served on the CDSS Board of Directors and the Executive Board from 1996 to 2001. Mary was recently program director for two CDSS English-American Weeks at Pinewoods, and was program director for two BACDS English Dance & Music Weeks at Mendocino. Mary ended her term on the board of the Portland Country Dance Community in 2004. She was Dance Instructor for Portland's 2004 Christmas Revels.

In the past, touring has taken Mary to the mid-Atlantic states and the Southeast (with KGB, with Larry Unger and Elke Baker, and with Rex Blazer and Anita Anderson), to the Northeast (with Rex Blazer and Anita Anderson), and to several East Coast states (with Footloose).

Mary has called dances, taught workshops, and appeared
at festivals throughout the U.S., and in Canada and Europe
Oregon Montana
Portland Country Dance Community (PCDC) Fall Dance Weekend at Suttle Lake (near Sisters) Bear Hug (near Kalispell)
PCDC's Ski/Dance Weekend at Mt. Hood  
Portland Country Dance Community's English Ball New Hampshire
  Hands Four Spring Weekend (near Troy)
Alaska Ralph Page New England Dance Legacy Weekend (Durham)
Camp Damp (Juneau)  
Equinox Weekend (Anchorage) New Jersey
Farthest North Dance Camp (near Fairbanks) Rum & Onions (Princeton)
  New Jersey Folk Project
Arizona  
Madcap May Day ContraFest (Prescott) New York
Dance in the Desert (Tucson) English country dance party (Westchester)
   
California North Carolina
Camp Sturtevant (outside Los Angeles) Winter Dance Week, John C. Campbell Folk School
Foggy Moon (Monterey) Spring Dance Romance, Camp Sertoma (near Winston-Salem)
Monte Toyon fall and spring weekends (near Santa Cruz)  
BACDS English Dance & Music Week (Mendocino) Pennsylvania
Playford to the Present English Ball (Pasadena) Philadelphia English country dance & callers' workshops
   
Connecticut Tennessee
Folk Music Society of New York Spring Weekend (Falls Village) The Music City Masquerade (Nashville)
   
Hawaii Texas
Hawaii Dance Vacation (Big Island) Bayou Bedlam (Houston)
  Contra weekend (Dallas)
Kentucky  

Berea Christmas School

Washington
  Slugs at Sunrise (Vashon Island)
Massachusetts Folklife (Seattle)
Pinewoods English-American, American, Family, and English Dance weeks Fiddletunes (Port Townsend)
NEFFA (New England Folk Festival)  
LCFD Dance Camp, with BAG o'Tricks Canada
  English Country Dance Weekend (Victoria, BC)
Michigan English country and contra dance callers' workshops (Victoria, BC)
Michigan Dance Heritage  
  Denmark
Minnesota Square Dance Weekend (Tommerup)
Minnesota Country Dance Weekend (St. Paul) Silkeborg Dance Weekend
   
Missouri France
Spring Breakdown Undercover (Columbia) Loire Valley (Ken McFarland ECD trip)
   
  Greece
  The Greek Isles (Ken McFarland ECD trip)

 

Mary Devlin
Portland, Oregon
Last Updated: April 25, 2008
Phone: 503-236-8062
Email: mary@mdevlin.com

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