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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 has been program director for two CDSS English-American Weeks at Pinewoods and was program director for two BACDS English Dance & Music Weeks at Mendocino. She is the 2011 and 2012 program director for the BACDS English Dance & Music Weeks at Bishop's Ranch, a new venue for the event. 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 New Hampshire
Portland Country Dance Community (PCDC) Fall Dance Weekend at Suttle Lake (near Sisters) Hands Four Spring Weekend (near Troy)
PCDC's Ski/Dance Weekend at Mt. Hood Ralph Page New England Dance Legacy Weekend (Durham)
Portland Country Dance Community's English Ball  
  New Jersey
Alaska Rum & Onions (Princeton)
Camp Damp (Juneau) New Jersey Folk Project
Equinox Weekend (Anchorage)  
Farthest North Dance Camp (near Fairbanks) New York
  English country dance party (Westchester)
Arizona  
Madcap May Day ContraFest (Prescott) North Carolina
Dance in the Desert (Tucson) Winter Dance Week, John C. Campbell Folk School
  Spring Dance Romance, Camp Sertoma (near Winston-Salem)
California  
Camp Sturtevant (outside Los Angeles) Pennsylvania
Foggy Moon (Monterey) Philadelphia English country dance & callers' workshops
Monte Toyon fall and spring weekends (near Santa Cruz)  
BACDS English Dance & Music Week (Mendocino & Bishop's Ranch) Tennessee
Playford to the Present English Ball (Pasadena) The Music City Masquerade (Nashville)
   
Colorado Texas
Stellar Days and Nights Bayou Bedlam (Houston)
  Contra weekend (Dallas)
Connecticut  
Folk Music Society of New York Spring Weekend (Falls Village) Washington
  Slugs at Sunrise (Vashon Island)
Hawaii Folklife (Seattle)
Hawaii Dance Vacation (Big Island) Fiddletunes (Port Townsend)
   
Kentucky Canada

Berea Christmas School

English Country Dance Weekend (Victoria, BC)
  English country and contra dance callers' workshops (Victoria, BC)
Massachusetts  
Pinewoods English-American, American, Family, and English Dance weeks Denmark
NEFFA (New England Folk Festival) Square Dance Weekend (Tommerup)
LCFD Dance Camp, with BAG o'Tricks Silkeborg Konvent Dance Weekend (return engagement)
   
Michigan England
Michigan Dance Heritage Morland Folk Dance Week  -- Newby End Farm
  Whitby Folk Week -- Whitby, Yorkshire
Minnesota Southam Festival
Minnesota Country Dance Weekend (St. Paul)  
  France
Missouri Loire Valley (Ken McFarland ECD trip)
Spring Breakdown Undercover (Columbia)  
  Greece
Montana The Greek Isles (Ken McFarland ECD trip)
Bear Hug (near Kalispell)  

 

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Mary Devlin
Portland, Oregon
Last Updated: February 24, 2012
Phone: 503-236-8062
Email: mary@mdevlin.com

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