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Folk dancers

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  • This photograph, taken by Doris Ulmann in 1933 or 1934, shows Georg Bidstrup, dance instructor at the John C. Campbell Folk School, and a group of students practicing traditional folk dancing or "singing games." Bidstrup came to the school in 1926 and was initially employed as the Danish farm manager and instructor for folk dancing and gymnastics. He married co-founder of the school, Marguerite Butler, in 1936. Bidstrup eventually became director of the Folk School in 1952.