GREAT BARRINGTON — On Saturday afternoon, about 30 people, working in pairs, were gathered at the First Congregational Church on Main Street practicing a “welcoming dance.”
With choreographer and facilitator Gesel Mason calling out the steps on an eight count, the dancers, facing each other, progressed through a series of shared movements: bumping elbows, playing peekaboo through a heart shaped with both hands, touching foreheads together and placing their hands on their hearts.