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Allison Thompson is a musician, folk-dancer and historian of the dance. She started English country-dancing in the mid-seventies and has been dancing, teaching and playing for dances ever since. She was foreman/squire for the Iron Rose Garland Dance Team and the Iron City Morris. Allison plays concertina, recorders and accordions with the multi-faceted trio, Amarillis, which plays for contra, English and Vintage dances.Allison has been researching and writing on various aspects of historical dance and the dance revival for the last decade. She is currently at work on a murder mystery.
BooksDancing Through Time; Western Social Dance In Literature, 1400-1918, McFarland & Company, Inc., 1998. ISBN 0-7864-0480-9
Lighting The Fire; Elsie J. Oxenham, the Abbey Girls and the English Folk Dance Revival, The Squirrel Hill Press, 1998. ISBN 0-9666563-0-1
Legacy; Twenty-five Years of Country Dance & Song, Country Dance & Song Society, to appear fall 2000.
Discography
Amarillis: Waltzing In The Trees. With Maro Avakian (piano), Donna Isaac (fiddle) and Allison Thompson (concertina, accordions). September, 1999.
Pat Travis, With Open Hands, guest musician. 1997.
Articles on DancePersuasions, "The Felicity of Rapid Motion; Jane Austen in the Ballroom," Vol. 21, No. 1, Winter 2000.
Country Dance & Song Society News, "Elsie J. Oxenham" No. 148, May/June, 1999.
Country Dance & Song, "Ten Cents A Dance: Taxi-Dancing, Jazz Dancing and the Folk Revival," vol. 26, 1996.
Country Dance & Song, "The Amherst Dance Camp: Reminiscences of Ted Viehman," vol. 23, April 1993.
Country Dance & Song, "Twenty-Five Years Of Country Dance & Song; A Subject And Author Index," vol. 23, April 1993.
Country Dance & Song, "Dancing on the Eve of Battle; Some Views About Dance During the American Civil War," vol. 21, March 1991.
Allison has also published numerous articles on historical and general interest topics in periodicals such as USAir Magazine, British Heritage, Victorian Sampler and American History Illustrated.
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