Transylvanian workshop - Columbus OH Feb. 22-24 2008

Just got a batch of flyers from the Columbus Folk Dancers for their upcoming workshop:

Istvan Kosbor Teaching Dances from Transylvania
February 22-24, 2008 in Columbus Ohio

The paper flyers say Istvan Kosbor, though their website says Aron Szekely. There's a link on their website for a PDF flyer, but it doesn't seem to be available quite yet. We'll bring the paper flyers on Friday, in case anybody is interested.

Riverdance Cartoon

Video clips from Fermilab dancing Jan 24 2008

Video clips below were taken as we were doing the Dances that Lee Otterholt had just taught. Since we only did Koritsa once, and I was dancing, not filming, I don't have that one, but using Google, I found this video of a group in Sacramento doing Koritsa

Besides Ljiljino Kolo, Bordeiasul, Seksmansril, and Koritsa, he also taught a dance called Balutsa, but I'm afraid I skipped that one.

Ljiljino Kolo


Bordeiasul


Seksmansril

Balkanske Igre Spring Festival, March 28-30, 2008, U of Chicago

Received from Balkanske Igre (you can click on the flyer images below to get a larger view of the details):

Subject: Chicago:  Spring Festival, March 28-30, 2008 -
dance and music of the Balkans and Eastern Europe
Date: Fri, 25 Jan 2008 14:49:32 -0800 (PST)
From: balkanske igre 
To: balkanske_igre@yahoo.com

Dear Friends,

FYI.   Please forward to whoever may be interested.
Thanks! Hope to see you in March.

43nd Anniversary
SPRING FESTIVAL
March 28-30, 2008
International House,1414 E 59th St, Chicago, IL 60637
workshops, concert, parties, culture sessions featuring
dance and music of the Balkans, Eastern Europe, and Mediterranean
(registration form at the bottom of this note)

INFORMATION: 773-324-1247 (24-hours) or 847-965-8495-eves & weekends
   balkanske_igre@yahoo.com    
Balkanske Igre, PO Box 1157, Chicago, IL 60690

Friday Jan 25 dancing ***CANCELLED*** due to weather

With the nasty snowy weather tonight, we decided to cancel tonight's dancing in
Downers Grove, so you can all stay home warm & safe (and we can, too :-) ). We've
called the regulars whose numbers we have - I hope anybody who was planning to
come gets the message.

Turns out we were going to be relegated to the smaller room tonight, anyway -
I got e-mail from the church secretary yesterday, saying:
So sorry for the late notice - I completely forgot that there is a dress
rehearsal in Fellowship Hall tomorrow night for the cowboy show that the
church is putting on this weekend.
We're also sorry for the late notice - stay warm, and hopefully we'll see you
next week.

Woody Allen's "Scoop" and folk dancing...

I just watched the movie "Scoop" - at one point, Woody Allen's character is trying to suggest reasons why Hugh Jackman's character might have lied about being out of town:

“Maybe he belongs to one of those clubs where they are cross-dressers?” he says. “Or maybe he does folk dancing.”

Unfortunately, that's the only reference to folk dancing in the movie; and it's not a real great movie...

If you surf to the link above, you probably shouldn't click on the link to the "OFFICIAL SITE" scoopmovie.net - it doesn't look like an official site. I'm guessing after the movie was released maybe they released the domain name and somebody else picked it up; it looks kind of hinky.

Miami Herald article about Sue VW's book, now in stores

Thanks to Joe for sending this - Click here for the article, which includes a link to a slideshow of photos of the gorgeous quilts in the book. Earlier post with another article and link to Borders/Amazon here. Click here for Sue's new website.

Greek Line Dance Workshop, St. Louis, Feb. 8-10,2008

To hear examples of the type of dance music that will be featured at this workshop, tune in to Music from the Hills on Saturdays from 4:00 to 6:00 p.m. on radio station KDHX, 88.1 FM in St. Louis. The program is co-hosted by IFDA members John Uhlemann and Gitry Heydebrand. You can also listen online -- see KDHX's web site at www.kdhx.org.

International Folk Dance Association of University City presents . . .
	To IFDA Home Page Line Dances from Northern Greece a workshop taught by Kyriakos Moisidis February 8-10, 2008 University City (St. Louis), Missouri

June Camp -- May 30 - June 1, 2008

Received from Mady:

Happy 2008!

As you start to plan this New Year, save the weekend of May 30 - June 1 for this year's fabulous June Camp. We're excited to announce that we'll have two main teachers this year: BOTH Jaap Leegwater, teaching his well-researched specialty of Bulgarian dance, AND Lee Otterholt, who will bring us a great mix of Balkan styles and also Norwegian.

The camp will again be at comfortable and convenient Beloit College, and will include such favorite aspects as the Friday afternoon Dance Exchange, request dancing Friday night, a live band Saturday evening, Happy Hour, the Ice Cream Social, a special commemmorative T-shirt, and a camp video.

Please save the dates, and look for registration flyers at Madison's Folk Ball. By the end of January, they should be available to download, along with further information on the new June Camp website at: http://junecamp2008.googlepages.com/

If you have questions, or if you'd like a paper flyer mailed to you, don't hesitate to contact us at this new email address for June Camp junecamp2008@gmail.com

Chicagoland Scandinavian Dance Classes Resume January 20th

Update received Jan. 21: class dates:
January 20, 27, February 3, 10, 17?, 24, March 9, 16, 23?

Received from Roo:

Happy New Year
Our classes will resume at St. Luke's Presbyterian Church
weather permitting
next Sunday, January 20th at 6pm.

We will meet as usual, weather permitting.

If you know anyone who would like to join us, now is a good time.

Basics (as needed) 6pm

Intermediate follows

As always, snacks, social time and dance requests are part of our evening.

We welcome Mary Allsopp playing for dancing.

Looking forward to seeing you all next Sunday.

Roo

EMNFD: 2/11 Pre-Valentines Day Party

Received from Harry:

Evanston Monday Night Folk Dancers Present

A Pre-Valentine’s Day Party

Monday, February 11^th

bring a sweetie - person and/or treat… and definitely your dancing shoes !!

We’ll provide drinks and some healthy food

Lake Street Church of Evanston – Lake St and Chicago Ave
enter from courtyard – 7:30-10:30 pm always $5

New Years Playlist, Potluck Recipes, Lost+Found

One nice thing about playing the music from the computer is that it's easy to save the program as a playlist, and Jay wrote a little script to extract the names in plain text format -- attached below is the program of dances from the New Years Day party.

The spicy lentil-potato-filled tortilla roll-ups were based on the filling from this samosa recipe, except that instead of fussing with making the dough and baking or frying, I just spread the cooked filling on store-bought flour tortillas, rolled them up, chilled and sliced them. And I used mixed vegetables instead of peas, because I don't like peas. If anybody else was asked about their recipes and would like to share, you can add it to this post as a comment, if you'd like. Remember, you're welcome to comment on this or any other post in the blog. Or e-mail us if you have something interesting to share, and I can add it to the blog, if you don't want to mess with it yourself. I can't post PDF or MSword files, but plain text or HTML or URL links or .JPG images are all fine.

In the lost+found department, somebody left behind something that I'm surprised they haven't asked about yet - if you were there and check your belongings and find something missing, we'll have it there to be claimed on Friday. If you're not a Friday regular, please contact us to make arrangements to identify & retrieve the item.

Happy New Year!

------- Dance list from January 1, 2008 ---------

Lesnoto - Makedonsko Devojce
Pinosavka
Tzadik Katamar
Ais Giorgis
Bufcankso 1
Kendime
Karamfil
Oconomowoc 2006\Lalica
Dospatsko Horo 1
Seta
Lemonia
Ma Navu
Mori Shej, Sabina
Hora Fetelor
Makedonio
Dos Amantes
Moj Maro, Moj Marine
Sestorka
Vodeno Horo
Kjustendilska Racenica - Snosti Si Rada Pristana
June Camp 2006\Hasovska Lesa
Gori More
Macarena
Keshenavo
Jensen's Hambo
Moja Diridika
Zemer Atik
Svekrvino
Triti Puti 1
Oconomowoc 2007\Rododachtilos
Sapri Tama
Popovicanka
Pata Pata
Jeftanovicevo Kolo
Dalakopa + Alix Cordray\Linerender - Skepparshottis
Skip - Down at the Twist and Shout
Orijent 1
Lesnoto - NAMA Medley
Carnavalito
Sadi Moma
Raca
Yuliyan Yordanov - Spring Festival - Chicago 2006\_ 09_Pirinsko Shirto
New York New York
Nevesto Carvan Trendafil
Oconomowoc 2007\Above the Rainbow
Syrtos - Tin Agape - RPO
June Camp 2006\Ramno Velesko
Rustemul
Get Back to the Country
Paraliakos
Dobrudzanska Reka 1
Louisiana Saturday Night
Godecki Cacak
Hora Miresi
Capkan Dimco
June Camp 2006\Ciganko
Cobankat
Saint John River
Russian Round Dance
Cocek - Lasmagi Djasmagi
Lepa Moja Milena
Krici Krici Ticek
Moonlight Swing - Whose Bed Have Your Boots...
Haroa Haktena
Ashrei Hayish
Deninka - Ordan Seti Na Kulata
Fatise Kolo
Sonia Dion + Cristian Florescu\Hora de la Soroca
Ivanice
Hora Or
Passu Torrau
Hole in the Wall
Hora de la Cimpie
Kasapsko
Joc de Leagane
Never on Sunday
Osman Aga
Trgnala Rumjana 2

New Years Day Photos

If you right-click on the slideshow below, you get some options about how to play it (at least, in Firefox you do). Enjoy!