Pikes Peak from Colorado College Campus

32^nd Annual Celebration - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - Cancelled for 2009

Worner Campus Center Colorado College Campus

It is with regret that we announce that the Rocky Mountain Dance Roundup will NOT take place this year. The dwindling attendance over the last half dozen years has necessitated the cancellation. While a devoted group of friends has attended faithfully for many years, the dance week has not succeeded in attracting the necessary new blood to keep the event viable. The first RMDR took place in 1978 to give the general public a chance to attend an LSF dance week, the Lloyd Shaw Dance Fellowship being of necessity limited to a small group of leaders. The first RMDRs took place at Scandinavian Lodge in Steamboat springs, moving after a couple of years to the YMCA camp at Granby, Colorado. Some years later the event found a home at La Foret, a church camp in the Black Forest east of Colorado Springs. Those events were followed by several years of “wandering in the wilderness” at Fountain Valley School, the University of Wyoming, and new Mexico State at Las Vegas, NM. The event returned to La Foret, and finally for the last few years it “came home” to Colorado College where Lloyd and Dorothy Shaw had graduated in 1913. Diane Ortner and Bill Litchman directed some of the first dance weeks and Don & Marie Armstrong led many of the weeks at Granby, eventually passing the directorship on to Diane. Bob & Allynn Riggs assumed the directorship with the dance week that was held at the University of Wyoming. The Foundation and the hundreds of dancers who attended RMDR owe all of these leaders a great debt of gratitude for their devoted service in leading this camp. The supporters of RMDR hope that some teacher training workshops can be organized in Colorado in conjunction with a college or university, thus carrying on the mission of the LSF to “recall, restore, and teach the folk rhythms of the American people.”

The Lloyd Shaw Foundation Mission “The Lloyd Shaw Foundation will ¯ Share a diverse range of dance and music with a broad intergenerational audience; ¯ Develop leadership in dance and music to ensure its continuity. ¯ Retain records which document the past, present, and future of our American dance; and ¯ Promote fellowship and enjoyment through the production of dance events, music, and dance materials; ¯ All of which emphasize the spirit and dances of Lloyd Shaw. ” Membership in the Foundation is open to all who are interested in these goals.

Square dances, contra dances, round dances, mixers, and quadrilles are chief among the kinds of dance the Foundation seeks to preserve and foster. The Foundation engages in a wide variety of activities including: ¯ Training teachers and dance leaders ¯ Producing records, kits of dance materials and other materials for dancers and dance leaders ¯ Sponsoring recreational dance weeks ¯ Publishing books and other printed materials pertaining to dance ¯ Preserving dance material of historical interest through its archives. Seminar Information about a future education seminar will be posted as soon as we can establish the details