This episode, Mary interviews Maine caller and organizer Chrissy Fowler. In 2005, Chrissy co-founded a local dance series which has evolved into a thriving participatory arts nonprofit—Belfast Flying Shoes. She likes to cultivate community by organizing fun stuff, including BFS programs and has also been involved with Puttin’ On the Dance, a conference for Northeast dance organizers. Chrissy also leads dances at BFS, other dance series, schools, weddings, camps, conferences, reunions, and more. Chrissy once wrote a sermon on dance as spiritual practice, and her favorite dance to call is whatever is working well for the folks she's leading in the moment, but if she had to choose just one, the circle mixer version of Heel & Toe Polka would be at the top of the list.
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