Friday, May 2, 2014
Not meeting Fri May 2, 2014
Because we'll be having our annual Stone Soup Party Saturday May 3, we will not be meeting to dance in Downers Grove on Friday May 2, we'll be home making soup.
Thursday, May 1, 2014
2014 Stone Soup Party: Saturday May 3 1pm-6pm
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
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.
Monday, April 28, 2014
Chicago Tribune Article: Benefits of Social Dancing
Social dancing can be a lift and a turnaround - chicagotribune.com
http://www.chicagotribune.com/health/la-he-swing-dancer-20140427,0,2731692.story
http://www.chicagotribune.com/health/la-he-swing-dancer-20140427,0,2731692.story
Saturday, April 26, 2014
soundcloud.com - tracks to listen to
In the process of getting the links for the previous post, with WBEZ's Worldview on soundcloud.com, I found other interesting stuff to listen to, for example:
https://soundcloud.com/evergreene/sets/balkan-arts-701-bulgarian-folk
https://soundcloud.com/evergreene/sets/balkan-arts-701-bulgarian-folk
WBEZ: Brass Band Music, May 2 CIMM "Brasslands" movie
There's a story on WBEZ (from their Worldview show) about global brass band music:
https://soundcloud.com/wbez-worldview/global-notes-brass-bands
The movie "Brasslands", about brass bands competing at the Guca festival in Serbia (including Zlatne Uste, whose music we often dance to) will be showing Friday May 2nd at 7:00pm at the Logan Theatre
as part of the Chicago International Movie and Music (CIMM) festival.
Since we won't be meeting for dancing Friday May 2 because we'll be having the Stone Soup party Sat May 3
you wouldn't even have to miss dancing to go see the movie.
https://soundcloud.com/wbez-worldview/global-notes-brass-bands
The movie "Brasslands", about brass bands competing at the Guca festival in Serbia (including Zlatne Uste, whose music we often dance to) will be showing Friday May 2nd at 7:00pm at the Logan Theatre
as part of the Chicago International Movie and Music (CIMM) festival.
Since we won't be meeting for dancing Friday May 2 because we'll be having the Stone Soup party Sat May 3
you wouldn't even have to miss dancing to go see the movie.
Sunday, April 6, 2014
Argonne IFD now on Meetup.com
Check it out, and please join the meetup group if you're so inclined:
http://www.meetup.com/http-argonneifd-blogspot-com/
Saturday, March 22, 2014
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/
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/
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