Show i GIRL t tI URGES FOLK I MADISON VIs May ray 1 k t By NEA EA rEA America will have her national national national na na- na- na folk tolk dances and they will be known the world over If f the efforts efforts I of Miss Elizabeth Burchenal are 1 successful Miss bliss is known as the leading American authority on folk dancing was organizer and first chaIrman of the folk folle dance committee committee com com- of the Playground Association Association tion ion of ot America and Is a member of ot the staff of the National Community Community Community Com Com- service in which capacity she he trains recreation leaders She ca carne ne to Madison to institute community community com com- folk folIc dance classes Recreation through folk dancing for or grownups as well as children is Miss Burchenal's life work She has studied the national dances of all European countries has traveled through regions unexplored by tourIsts tourists tour- tour and taken part In peasants' peasants I recreations in order to learn all there here is to know lenow of this subject In 1913 she conducted a folk tolle dance Institute in Ireland for which she was waR presented with a gold Tara brooch held sacred by the tho Irish The greatest potential value of or folk dancing says sas she lies in its possibilities as a much needed wholesome form of popular recreation tion Folk dancing as a means of or self- self expression and wholesome recreation recreation recreation tion for children is established It Itis I is here to stay The children have decided that But as a a. part of adult recreation and as a means of ot developing developing developing devel devel- citizenship it has just begun Self consciousness dignity dignity- and timidity are broken down and all give themselves up to relaxation enjoyment and exhilaration as happily happily happily hap hap- as children It is only a matter of time when folk dancing will be an American community It is bound to tobe tobe tobe be for it is one of ot the happy things people people can do so freely and so easily |