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Friday, April 27, 2012

World Dance Day Apr 29,2012 Athenaeum Theatre Chgo

Carlyn mentioned that Sunday is a World Dance program at the Athenaeum Theater. 
Sunday, April 29 at 2:00PM and 7:00PM 
Athenaeum Main Stage 2936 N. Southport Ave Lobby level Chicago, IL 60657
According to the website:
The 2pm performance features kids ages 7 to 14 from the following groups Renacer Boliviano Turkish Folk Dance Group (Turkiye) Mexican Dance Ensemble Albanian Dance Ensemble Chicago Bulta Arts (Korea) M.A.D.D.ers Rhythms Joel Hall Dancers, Junior Co. Southport Performing Arts Conservatory SPA Dance Ensemble Trinity Irish Dancers 7 p.m. performance (Professional Dance Companies) Chicago Academy of the Arts/Randy Duncan Joel Hall Dancers, Senior Co. M.A.D.D. Rhythms Ensemble Espanol Mexican Dance Ensemble Miorita Seniors (Romania) Yelin Korean Traditional Drums Laume (Lithuania) Renacer Boliviano (Bolivia) HORO Seniors (Bulgaria) Brandon and Serena (Ballroom) Trinity Irish Dancers

Thursday, April 12, 2012

Jaap Leegwater teaching at Fermilab Apr 26 + May 3

Received from Mady:
Hi and happy Spring!

I have hot-off-the-press news of a special event coming up at Fermilab International Folk Dancing:

Jaap Leegwater, the well-known Dutch teacher of Bulgarian folk dance, will be making a visit to the Midwest and will do a special workshop at our group on Thursday, April 26, and follow up with a review session the following week, on Thursday, May 3.  We're very pleased and excited to have him for this unexpected appearance!

The workshop will be held at Fermilab's Village Barn, on the Fermilab site, starting at 7:30 p.m., both Thursdays.  We hope you can join us!

You can download a printable flyer about this at www.fnal.gov/orgs/folkdance/

In one other bit of late breaking news, I just heard that we can't use the Barn April 19 because of a lab function. So dancing will move to Ramsey Auditorium that evening.

Other folk dance events coming up include:

Saturday, April 21 - Sarah Falkoff teaching at the Appleton, WI workshop, potluck and party, with music by Orkestar Bez Ime  

Wednesday, April 25 - Oak Park/River Forest Folk Dacne Annual Potluck, 7:30 - 10:30 p.m., Christ Episcopal Church, 515 Franklin, River Forest.

Friday, April 27 to Sunday, April 29 -  Paul Collins teaching at the  Indianapolis Folk Dance workshop.

Friday, May 4 to Sunday, May 6 - The Detroit Folk Dance weekend "Christomania" with Christos Papakostos and Joe Graziosi teaching Greek dance and live music with Christos Govetas' family band "Dromeno" - Registration form at
http://www.detroitfolkdancing.com/May%20Camp%20Reg%20form%202012.pdf

Monday, May 7 -  Workshop with Christos Papakostos at Evanston Monday International Folk Dancing, Lake Street Church in Evanston  www.evanstonfolkdance.org

Saturday, May 12 -  Stone Soup Party at Argonne International Folk Dancers, 1 to 6 p.m. at St. Paul's UCC, Downers Grove argonneifd.blogspot.com/2012/03/stone-soup-party-saturday-may-12-2012.html

Thursday, May 31 through Sunday, June 3 -  June Camp at Beloit College, with Zeljko Jergan (Croatian) and Larry Marcus (Israeli). Registration flyers will be available for download very soon at junecampifd.googlepages.com

Lots to do. Have fun, and enjoy it!

Cheers,

Mady

Friday, April 6, 2012

Open Country Line Dance at Warrenville Community Bldg

The Warrenville Park District has classes in country line dancing, taught by Janet Kruse.  They also have occasional open line dances at the Warrenville Community Building, $5 admission.  The next one is Saturday, April 21.  Here's a link for the upcoming schedule:
http://dancewithjanet.com/upcoming-events

Oak Park/River Forest Folk Dance Potluck Apr 25

Received from Edie:
Oak Park / River Forest Folkdancers
Invite you to a pot luck supper
Wednesday, April 25, 2012
Christ Episcopal Church
515 Franklin, River Forest, IL
7:30 - 10:30
$6.00
Bring a dish to serve 8.
Refrigerator, microwaveand stove available.
It's about 1 mile west of Harlem, just north of Lake Street

Shen Yun Classical Chinese Dance Chicago Apr 19-22

Shen Yun 2012
April 19 - 22, 2012
Civic Opera House
20 North Wacker Drive, Chicago , Illinois

Classical Chinese dance, live orchestra, handcrafted costumes.