DF In The News!

We've hit the media radar, it seems, in our move to Brookline. We're excited to have such a wonderful influx of new members and energy!

Please enjoy this latest article, by Richard Thompson, of the City Weekly section of The Boston Globe.

Moved to shake up their lives
To relieve stress and meet folks, group gets out on dance floor

By Richard Thompson
Globe Correspondent / January 4, 2009


On any given Friday night, Steve Carter counts on being able to "shake out the tensions" of a long work week with a couple hours of improvisational dancing.


"I'm making up moves and I'm interacting with people intuitively," Carter, a 50-year-old massage therapist from Malden, said recently. "Sometimes it's just me in the middle of the floor, and I'm not dancing with anybody, it's just me and the universe."

Whether it be overcoming the daily grind or connecting with a community of other like-minded people, that same strategy has been catching on in Brookline for the past six months, when a long-established, weekly free-dance gathering relocated to Washington Square after being held mostly in Watertown for three decades.

Please click the link for the rest of the article.
http://www.boston.com/news/local/massachusetts/articles/2009/01/04/moved_to_shake_up_their_lives/