Stone Soup: Save The Date Saturday April 6, 2019

Mark your calendar Saturday April 6, 2019, for the 37th annual Stone Soup Party (it's always the 37th annual, since Joe used to make the flyers years ago and his favorite number was 37).

Argonne International Folk Dance Stone Soup Party
Date: Saturday, April 6, 2019
Time: 1:00pm-6:00pm, potluck meal around 3:00pm
Place: St. Paul's UCC Fellowship Hall
Address: 5739 Dunham Rd.,Downers Grove, IL
Requested Donation: $5 + Potluck dish to share
 In order to spend more time dancing and less time cooking during the party, the soups will be made ahead. Please let us know if you can bring soup. 
Click on image below for flyers.

Stone Soup: Sat Apr 28, 2018

Argonne International Folk Dance Stone Soup Party
Date: Saturday, April 28, 2018
Time: 1:00pm-6:00pm, potluck meal around 3:00pm
Place: St. Paul's UCC Fellowship Hall
Address: 5739 Dunham Rd.,Downers Grove, IL
Requested Donation: $5 + Potluck dish to share
 In order to spend more time dancing and less time cooking during the party, the soups will be made ahead. Please let us know if you can bring soup.
Click on flyer image below if you need more printed flyers.

Stone Soup Folk Dance + Potluck at Apr 22, 2017

This year's Argonne Stone Soup Party will be held Saturday, April 22, 2017, 1pm-6pm,
potluck meal around 3:00pm, at St. Paul's UCC Fellowship Hall, 5739 Dunham Rd., Downers Grove, IL
Requested Donation: $5 + Potluck dish to share

Stone Soup Folk Dance Potluck Sat Apr 30, 2016

Argonne International Folk Dance Stone Soup Party
Date: Saturday, April 30, 2016
Time: 1:00pm-6:00pm, potluck meal around 3:00pm
Place: St. Paul's UCC Fellowship Hall
Address: 5739 Dunham Rd., Downers Grove, IL
Req. Donation: $5 + Potluck dish to share
 In order to spend more time dancing and less time cooking during the party, the soups will be made ahead. Please let us know if you can bring soup.
Click on flyer image below if you need more printed flyers.

Stone Soup Dance + Potluck Sat May 2, 2015

Argonne International Folk Dance Stone Soup Party
Date: Saturday, May 2, 2015
Time: 1:00pm-6:00pm, potluck meal around 3:00pm
Place: St. Paul's UCC Fellowship Hall
Address: 5739 Dunham Rd., Downers Grove, IL
Requested Donation: $3 + Potluck dish to share

In order to spend more time dancing and less time cooking during the party, the soups will be made ahead. If you'd like to bring a pot of soup, let us know (or just show up with soup, the more, the merrier).

click on image below for flyers

2014 Stone Soup Party: Saturday May 3 1pm-6pm

Argonne International Folk Dance

Stone Soup Party  

Date: Saturday, May 3, 2014 

Time: 1:00pm-6:00pm, potluck meal around 3:00pm 

Place: St. Paul's UCC Fellowship Hall 

Address: 5739 Dunham Rd.,Downers Grove, IL 

Requested Donation: $3 + Potluck dish to share 

In order to spend more time dancing and less time cooking during the party, the soups will be made ahead.  If you'd like to volunteer to bring a soup, let us know (or just show up with soup, the more the merrier!)  You can let us know in person at Friday night dancing, or by e-mail, or by posting a comment on this post, or on the meetup.com event: http://www.meetup.com/http-argonneifd-blogspot-com/events/174398662/

I've been trying to figure out how to put the meetup.com RSVP widget here, but I can't quite get it to work.

 
For flyers to print, click on image below.

Save the Date: Sat, May 3, 2014: Stone Soup

We've reserved the Fellowship Hall for our annual Stone Soup Party for Saturday, May 3, 2014.  Further details to come in a later post.

It was great to have such a good turnout for our Fri, March 7 get-together with Ethnic Dance Chicago, including dancers from more than just the two groups.  Seemed like that was almost the first Friday that it didn't snow so far this year, luckily.

In case you've been trying to remember the dances that were taught that night:

Paul taught "A Trip to Town-O" -- here's a link to a video of some 5th graders doing the dance, to remind you of the pattern: https://www.schooltube.com/video/28a47e03704467de8d20/

He also taught Damat Halay -- here's a link for instructions + various videos of that:
http://folkdancemusings.blogspot.com/2013/12/damat-halayi-turkey.html

Here's a video of Moonlight Swing:  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=32Jops3-SQk
 -- almost the same as what we do, except right at the end after the jazz box, where we do grapevines, the guy in the video does something slightly different

And here's Promoroaca: http://youtu.be/5qNWoyRmdqU -- if your memory is better than mine, you may realize that I goofed on the first part, and did 4 measures each direction, but it should be 8 measures all in the same direction, as in the video.

Sorry that I couldn't find any videos for "Cajun Express" that Susan taught.

In addition to google-ing for the name of a folk dance to find instructions or videos, there are a number sites that have a lot of them already compiled and indexed, here are a few:
http://folkdancemusings.blogspot.com/p/alphabetical-list-of-dance-notes-on.html
http://wiki.volksmusik.cc/wiki/index.php/Full_dance_list
http://archives.mvfolkdancers.com/0_Other%20Items%20of%20Interest/0_Dance%20Instructions/
http://www.folkdance.com/html/LDDescriptions.htm
http://www.daytonfolkdance.com/l_links.html#descriptions

Besides the aforementioned Stone Soup, here are a few other upcoming events of potential interest around the area:
Fri-Sun Mar 28-30: Balkanske Igri Spring Festival, International House, UofC http://www.balkanskiigri.com/
Wed Apr 23 7:30pm: Oak Park Folkdancers Annual Potluck, 515 Franklin, River Forest, IL
Thu-Sun May 29-Jun 1: June Camp w/Steve Kotansky, Beloit College:  https://sites.google.com/site/junecampifd/

Argonne IFD Stone Soup Party, May 11, 2013 Downers Grove

Argonne International Folk Dance

Stone Soup Party

Date: Saturday, May 11, 2013

Time: 1:00pm-6:00pm, potluck meal around 3:00pm

Place: St. Paul's UCC Fellowship Hall

Address: 5739 Dunham Rd., Downers Grove, IL

Req. Donation: $3 + Potluck dish to share

In order to spend more time dancing and less time cooking during the party, the soups will be made ahead.  Please let us know if you'd like to volunteer to provide one of the soups.

Click on below image, then right-click on enlarged image and select "View Image", to print if you need more flyers:

Save The Date: Saturday May 11, 2013 - Stone Soup

We've reserved St. Paul's UCC Fellowship Hall for our Stone Soup Party for Saturday, May 11, 2013.  More details will be posted later.

Photos from Stone Soup

I only took a few photos - if anybody else took photos they'd like to share, please e-mail them.  Thanks!

Stone Soup Party Saturday May 12, 2012 Downers Grove

Argonne International Folk Dance
Stone Soup Party
Date: Saturday, May 12, 2012
Time: 1:00pm-6:00pm, potluck meal around 3:00pm
Place: St. Paul's UCC Fellowship Hall
Address: 5739 Dunham Rd., Downers Grove, IL
Req. Donation: $3 + Potluck dish to share
More Info: lindaandjay@comcast.net
In order to spend more time dancing and less time cooking during the party, the soups will be made ahead.  Please let us know if you'd like to volunteer to provide one of the soups.

Stone Soup Potluck + Dance Saturday April 16 Downers Grove, IL

Argonne International Folk Dance
Stone Soup Party
Date: Saturday, April 16, 2011
Time: 1:00pm-6:00pm, potluck meal around 3:00pm
Place: St. Paul's UCC Fellowship Hall
Address: 5739 Dunham Rd., Downers Grove, IL
Req. Donation: $3 + Potluck dish to share
More Info: lindaandjay@comcast.net
In order to spend more time dancing and less time cooking during the party, the soups will be made ahead.  Please let us know if you'd like to volunteer to provide one of the soups.


Click on flyer image and print if you need more flyers:

Stone Soup Folk Dance Party - May 1, 1-6pm, Downers Grove

Argonne International Folk Dance
Stone Soup Party
Date: Saturday, May 1, 2010
Time: 1:00pm-6:00pm, potluck meal around 3:00pm
Place: St. Paul's UCC Fellowship Hall
Address: 5739 Dunham Rd., Downers Grove, IL
Req. Donation: $3 + Potluck dish to share
More Info: lindaandjay@comcast.net
In order to spend more time dancing and less time cooking during the party, the soups will be made ahead.

Stone Soup Party 2009 - April 25, 1pm-6pm, Downers Grove

Argonne International Folk Dance Stone Soup Party

Date: Saturday, April 25, 2009
Time: 1:00pm-6:00pm, potluck meal around 3:00pm
Place: St. Paul's UCC Fellowship Hall
Address: 5739 Dunham Rd.,  Downers Grove, IL
Req. Donation: $3 + Potluck dish to share
More Info: lindaandjay@comcast.net

 In order to spend more time dancing and less time cooking during the  party,
the soups will be made ahead

Stone Soup 2008 Photos

Hope you enjoyed Stone Soup - we did! Thanks to all who helped make it a success.

Stone Soup Party - Sept 27 1pm-6pm Downers Grove

Argonne International Folk Dance Stone Soup Party

Date: Saturday, September 27, 2008

Time: 1:00pm-6:00pm, potluck meal around 3:00pm

Place: St. Paul's UCC Fellowship Hall

Address: 5739 Dunham Rd., Downers Grove, IL

Req. Donation: Potluck dish to share

More Info: post a comment with your questions


This year, we decided to spend more time dancing and less time cooking during the party, so the soups will be made ahead. If you would like to provide one of the soups, please let us know; otherwise, your potluck dish can be anything that goes with soup: bread, salad, appetizer, side, dessert, beverages, etc. Thanks to the commenter who asked for clarification on that point.