Mazowsze Polish State Folk Song and Dance Ensemble Nov 17-18

Symphony Center Presents Mazowsze

Polish State Folk Song and Dance Ensemble

Saturday November 17, 2007, 3:00 p.m.
Sunday November 18, 2007, 3:00 p.m.
Sunday November 18, 2007, 7:00 p.m.

EMNFD: Party Saturday Night after Thanksgiving (11/24/07)

Dear Folk dance leader:

Well, we’re doing it – hosting a Saturday night dance party! (Perhaps not the best weekend, and it’s a late notice, but it’s happening.) We would very much appreciate it if you would forward the party information to your members / email list. And send us a list of dance requests if you are coming – we’ll try to program as many as possible!

- Judy & Harry

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POST TURKEY FOLK DANCE PARTY

AND

POTLUCK DINNER

SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 24^TH 6:30 TO 10:30 P.M.

Sorry for the late notice – Bring the relatives

LAKE STREET CHURCH OF EVANSTON

Corner of Lake Street and Chicago Ave

enter through the courtyard

$2 admission plus a dish to share

and a dance request!

Muriel Anderson Saturday-After-Thanksgiving 16th Annual concert

Folk Fair, free concerts, upcoming events

• Mady says: " Fermilab International Folk Dancing will be meeting not on Thursday 11/22 which is Thanksgiving, but on FRIDAY, 11/23. Come dance off those extra calories!" -- so, even though we won't be dancing in Downers Grove that Friday, you can travel a bit further west and still do some dancing, if you want. She also sent information about a free concert this weekend, and the Milwaukee Folk Fair next weekend, see next items:

• Kálmán Balogh & The Gypsy Cimbalom Band Perform at CCC Saturday, November 10, 2 pm
  Claudia Cassidy Theater, Chicago Cultural Center - Free

• Norwegian Accordion Quartet Turns Folk Music into Chamber Music Sunday, November 11, 5 pm
  Claudia Cassidy Theater, Chicago Cultural Center - Free

• Holiday Folk Fair International 2007 November 16 - 18, 2007 Milwaukee, Wisconsin
  

Nov/Dec schedule and New Years Day Party

We will not be dancing in Downers Grove on Friday, Nov. 23, the day after Thanksgiving.
We will be dancing Nov. 9, 16, 30 and all Fridays in December.
And, we will be holding our traditional New Years Day party, see below for details.
Since attendance has been above the break-even point this year, we've got enough to cover the rent for the New Years party, so we're not asking for any admission other than a potluck dish to share.

Argonne International Folk Dance
New Years Day Party

Date: Tuesday, January 1, 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

Moiseyev, centenarians and folk dance

Here's a link to an Associated Press story in the International Herald Tribune:

http://www.iht.com/articles/ap/2007/11/02/europe/EU-GEN-Russia-Obit-Moiseyev.php

Which says, in part:

The Associated Press Published: November 2, 2007

MOSCOW: Igor Moiseyev, who transformed folk dance into a legitimate genre of choreographic art that won worldwide acclaim, died Friday in Moscow. He was 101...

Moiseyev, called the king of folk dance, attracted the West to Russian culture at a time of deep political hostility and won standing ovations around the world.

And, on the subject of dance and centenarians, here's a story about the oldest alumnus of Jay's alma mater, RPI, which says, again in part:

Oldest RPI alumnus is dead at age 105
Albany native Isadore "Izzy" Warshaw danced with college president...

If it wasn't for that pastime, he may have reached 106.

Warshaw was dancing to a klezmer band that played Tuesday nights at his senior living community when he fell and broke his hip. That was Aug. 7.

The doctor offered him a choice.

He could risk surgery or leave it alone. He chose surgery. He made it through the operation, but his heart gave out afterward.

"It's like a book," Jeff Schanz, RPI's director of alumni relations, said of the dance-floor ending. "It's a remarkable end to a great life."

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