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Fall Free Online Bhangra Classes starts Sept 11

From Gurdeep Pandher:

I have exciting news to share. My online Bhangra dance-fitness classes are coming back soon. So it is time to dance again.

For your health and happiness during the ongoing pandemic, the classes are 100% free for the first month due to the kind sponsorship from British Columbia’s SPARKMOUTH. Born in BC, SPARKMOUTH is a refreshing, non-alcoholic, caffeine-free sparkling water that uses natural flavours from fruits to promote clean and healthy living. More information can be found on SPARKMOUTH’S website http://www.sparkmouth.com.

Please visit Gurdeep.ca/shop to book your free classes!

This time, my beginners’ classes will be “Progressive Beginners’ Classes”, which means that I will teach a new move in every beginner’s class.

Have a happy day!

Best regards,
Gurdeep Pandher
Web: Gurdeep.ca
Twitter: @GurdeepPandher
Facebook: @GurdeepPandher
Instagram: @GurdeepPandher

By dale|2020-09-04T16:13:12-07:00September 4th, 2020|Dance, Live, Workshop|0 Comments

FACONE New Thursday Series starts Sept 10

The Folk Arts Center has a new committee of volunteers, the Group Advising on Strategic Planning (acronymically known as GASP!). The series is designed to highlight other traditional arts forms – Some Other Folk Arts (or SOFA), if you will. Therefore, the Thursday series will spotlight a wide-ranging collection of artists and artisans demonstrating and/or talking about their crafts!

We will kick off the series next Thursday, September 10, with Richard Powers, who will be with us as we re-broadcast his recent talk on the Swing and Jazz age. If you missed it the first time, we hope you can clear your calendar and join us next week. And if you were there and are like me, it will be a great opportunity to watch it again and pick up all the tangy details you missed the first time around!

The next week is Bennett Clifford, live from his kitchen on September 17 as he shares with us recipes he enjoyed and mastered while he lived in the Republic of Georgia! We will appreciate not only the cooking, but stories of his experiences in Georgia to go along with it!

October 1 will feature Susan Lind-Sinanian making Armenian paklava. Many of you […]

By dale|2020-09-04T10:40:44-07:00September 4th, 2020|Culture, Dance, Information, Live, Workshop|0 Comments

Mladost Community Dance Tuesdays 7pm ET

Hey Dancers,

This week we’re beginning our partnership with Mladost to form the Mladost Community Dance! Same great people, same fun dancing, new snazzy name!

We will dance on Zoom tonight, Tuesday September 1^st, from 7 – 9pm EDT. Please remember to submit your dance requests and donate to support our teachers ($5 suggested). Mark yourself going on our Facebook event, and invite your friends to join us (even if they’ve never folk danced before)! Thank you to Mladost Folk Ensemble for supporting this dance series.

New Zoom Meeting link:
https://www.mladostfolk.com/mladost-community-dance

News:

Note the new link and earlier end time for tonight. You’re welcome to come in a few minutes early to make sure you can get into the waiting room. We’re so excited to dance with you!

If you are able, please donate at our PayPal donation link to join our circle and support our teachers! We suggest a donation of $5 per evening, we are grateful for any amount you can contribute. Your generosity helps us weather the pandemic and sustains our dance programming long term!

Submit your favorite dances to our request form and we’ll put them in next week’s program. […]

By dale|2020-09-04T11:45:54-07:00September 1st, 2020|Dance, International, Live, Workshop|0 Comments

Virtual Omaha International Folk Dancers Update

Omaha International Folk Dancers meets on Zoom
Sundays 3:00 to about 5:00 CENTRAL time.
Zoom link has changed to:
https://zoom.us/j/95150803709?pwd=WVE3cWcwNzFpeko5YUx1TlZJSTNkZz09

Contact Catherine Rudin for more info.

By dale|2020-09-01T12:48:50-07:00September 1st, 2020|Dance, International, Live|0 Comments

Dancin’ in the Seats Update

Dancin’ in the Seats has moved entirely to Zoom (no longer on FB LIve) and is now at noon Eastern on Mondays and Wednesdays. If people want the Zoom link they can contact me on Facebook (see below)

Also, I offer the same class on Tuesday and Thursday at 3pm Eastern, also on Zoom. The two different times are to make it easier to fit with people’s schedules and time zones.

Dancin’ in the Seats is a unique program of seated dances to a variety of music. They are simple, fun, and get the whole body moving. Because they are seated, there is no worry about losing one’s balance, or bumping into things or tripping while moving around. All ages and abilities find these dances delightful.

These are all seated dances!

See Steve’s Facebook page: facebook.com/StevenLeeWeintraub/

Times: M/W at Noon and T/Th at 3:00 PM ET

By dale|2020-09-01T12:45:09-07:00September 1st, 2020|Dance, Live, Workshop|0 Comments

Kypseli Virtual Greek dance workshop with Joseph Graziosi Sat Sept 12

Kypseli Greek Dance Center is hosting another virtual Greek dance workshop with Joseph Graziosi via Zoom on Saturday, September 12 from his home on Cape Cod, MA.

He will once again demonstrate leader variations and improvisations for Levendikos/Pusteno and Kritiko Syrto, plus more. Capacity limited to 500!

See www.kypseli.org for details.

1:00 pm PDT
3:00 pm CDT
4:00 pm EDT
23:00 in Greece

Join the workshop:
https://zoom.us/j/99879798930

Donations welcome via

to moc.loa@0301namlibfezoj

Email moc.liamg@esperox
for alternate ways to donate.
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By dale|2020-09-04T11:48:11-07:00August 26th, 2020|Balkan, Dance, Live, Workshop|0 Comments

Mainewoods 2020 E-vent Celebrating 25 Years – Sept 6

Mainewoods Dance Camp

Mainewoods 2020 E-vent!

Celebrating 25 Years of International Understanding Through Dance

Labor Day Sunday, September 6

Zoom link: https://us02web.zoom.us/j/83350120398

2021 Preview Workshop

Don’t miss our Zoom workshop which kicks off our 2020 E-vent. Six Featured Guests for the 2021 camp will each teach one of their dances.

The workshop is free, but with your donation of $20 or more to the 2021 Preview Workshop, you will receive a link to the video, music, and dance notes after the workshop.

Roberto Bagnoli

By dale|2020-08-29T15:17:29-07:00August 25th, 2020|Balkan, Dance, International, Israeli, Live, Party, Workshop|0 Comments

Scandinavian Dancers of Vancouver Virtual Dance Session Aug 26

On Wednesday, August 26 at 7:30 pm PT, Scandinavian Dancer of Vancouver will hold a Zoom session. Anyone interested in peeking in or participating is very welcome. Just click on this link Virtual Scandinavian Dance and we’ll send the Zoom URL and all the information you need.

Given that we are unable to meet in person, we have been gathering via Zoom to get some exercise to beautiful traditional Scandinavian music, and some “different” music we have been throwing in just for fun. In each virtual session, we teach a dance that can be done without a partner. Then during the open dancing part of the evening, we play some couple dance music so people can dance inside their “bubble” or just listen.

The tentative plan (all in PT) for the evening is as follows:

7:30 – 8:00 pm Pacific time Join In and Social Time
– When you get on Zoom, you’ll be put in a “waiting room,” and from there you will be let into the dance.
– Other than during social time (7:30-8:00 and 8:50-9:10) please keep your audio muted to maximize sound quality
8:00 – 8:20 pm Dance Teaching – MALMÖ MAZURKA
– Taught by Janet Gabites – “No […]

By dale|2020-08-20T12:08:04-07:00August 20th, 2020|Dance, Live, Party, Scandinavian, Workshop|0 Comments

SAFDF Master Dance Class with Mihai David Sep 12

Please mark your calendars for Saturday evening Sept. 12 from 7-8 pm Central Standard Time.

Mihai David will teach some of his most popular Romanian dances. He will focus on technique and styling.

This is followed by an Afterparty from 8pm until ???. The party will highlight the Top 5 most popular dances from each folk dance group. Please message Kathy if you would like to join in on the fun!

San Antonio Folk Dance Festival is holding this Technical Institute to raise money from the failed festival in March due to Covid-19, so please donate on our website if you can. If not, join in anyway, because this night is for everyone!

Download flyer here.

By dale|2020-08-20T16:29:04-07:00August 19th, 2020|Balkan, Dance, Live, Workshop|0 Comments

Gergana Panova Bulgarian Dance Workshop August 22

Workshops: 2:00–4:00pm EDT on Saturday, August 22, 2020

Online via Zoom

See all the details here: http://www.facone.org/programs/online-events-gergana-panova.html

To benefit the Folk Arts Center of New England

Join Bulgarian dance teacher Gergana Panova via Zoom, the popular teleconferencing platform.

Dr. Gergana Panova-Tekath was born in Sofia, Bulgaria. From 1988 to 1993, she danced with the Filip Kutev Bulgarian National Folk Ensemble. She studied dance ethnology in Bulgaria and obtained her Ph.D. in dance from Dortmund University (Germany). She regularly commutes between Bulgaria, where she heads the Ethnochoreology Department at the Bulgarian Academy of Sciences, and Germany, where she is Professor of Dance at Folkwang University in Essen.

Gergana has published numerous articles and has written two books on various aspects of Bulgarian traditional dance. Besides organizing annual summer seminars in Bulgaria, Gergana has taught workshops in many countries: Germany, Austria, Switzerland, France, Israel, Norway, Netherlands, Belgium, Brazil, Argentina, and the United States.

Join Gergana’s workshop via Zoom by activating a link that will be posted here on August 21. Visit What you need to join to set up your computer or device to join the workshop online.

Please donate generously to FAC if […]

By dale|2020-08-19T12:14:09-07:00August 19th, 2020|Balkan, Dance, Live, Workshop|0 Comments

San Diego Folk Dance Center’s International and Line-dance Sessions

Please join us for San Diego Folk Dance Center’s international and line-dance sessions! We dance twice a month on irregular Saturdays, 6:30pm to 10 or 11pm, trying to work around other big events in the international dance world. For schedule and information and to get on our mailing list, please contact John Knapp at moc.liamg@retsppankcj.

By dale|2020-08-18T12:22:02-07:00August 18th, 2020|Dance, International, Line dance, Live, Workshop|0 Comments

Global Folk Dance Party Update – August 15, 3pm – 6pm PT

Hi friends,

Our next Global Folk Dance Party is today! Facebook event posting here.

We love having people from around the world come together in a global party. In addition to our regular Dance Leaders, we’ll be joined by three guest Dance Leaders.

Date: Saturday, August 15, 2020
Times: 3:00pm to 6:00pm, Pacific Time Zone, check google to see what time it is where you live
Where: Online using Zoom, https://zoom.us/j/600066908

A few things:

See playlist here with links so you can brush up on the dances before the party.
For the rest of 2020, our Global Folk Dance Party dates are (Pacific Time Zone) September 19, October 17, November 21, and December 19, all from 3:00 pm to 6:00 pm. We expect to continue our parties in 2021 as well.
After the party, continue dancing at the afterparty! Details here. New! The afterparty is being organized by VirtualDanceRoom.
Flyer here, We appreciate you passing it onto your friends

Thank you for the ideas, requests and […]

By dale|2020-08-15T10:53:51-07:00August 15th, 2020|Dance, International, Live, Party|0 Comments

Save the Date! 2-Day Stockton Experience Jan 23-24

By dale|2020-08-14T14:07:11-07:00August 14th, 2020|Dance, Information, International, Live, Party, Workshop|0 Comments

Virtual Dance Room Afterparty August 15

Virtual Dance Room has organized an Afterparty to follow the Global Folk Dance Party which is on Saturday August 15 6-9 pm ET (3-6pm PT).

This Afterparty will start at 9:30pm ET (6:30pm PT). The Global Dance Party usually runs a bit late but the Afterparty will start as scheduled.

To see the many hosts, click here.
And to see the dance lists click here.

Afterparty link is:

The new simpler link for the After-Party is: www.virtualdanceroom.net/afterparty/
NOTE: The above is a simpler link – the longer VDR links (below) will still work:
- Longer Link (URL and Encrypted Password):
  https://zoom.us/j/8478468139?pwd=Mks1YlJGL01RRUVjVDRCcFc1Y2VNQT09
- URL: https://zoom.us/j/8478468139 – Password: DaNcE-1116

Please spread the word throughout your virtual dance networks.

By dale|2020-08-15T10:33:41-07:00August 14th, 2020|Dance, International, Live, Party|2 Comments

Cafe Aman toast to John Filcich August 22

Date and time: August 22, 5-6:30pm

A Zoom toast offered to John Filcich, a long-standing pillar of the Balkan folk dance community as he relocates from SoCal to northern California.

FREE

Click here for Zoom meeting.

For more information contact: moc.loa@fitomklof

By dale|2020-08-19T19:16:10-07:00August 13th, 2020|Dance, Live, Party|0 Comments

Chicago SummerDance in Place on YouTube

An at-home version of this Chicago summertime tradition is on YouTube. Presented by DCASE with the Chicago Park District, the reimagined series was filmed in Millennium Park and at Chicago Park district locations, featuring skyline views and iconic imagery.

Following the traditional SummerDance model, each program starts with a 30-minute dance lesson, followed by 60 minutes of music performed by local artists. Dance and music styles are Line Dance (copyright issues have blocked this video in Canada), Cumbia, Swing, Bollywood & Bhangra, Salsa, and House.

All programs can be viewed on the Chicago DCASE site here.

By dale|2020-08-08T10:43:30-07:00August 8th, 2020|Anytime, Dance, International, Workshop|0 Comments

Scandinavian Dancers of Vancouver “Virtual” Dance – August 12

On Wednesday, August 12 at 7:30 pm PT, Scandinavian Dancer of Vancouver will hold a Zoom session. Anyone interested in peeking in or participating is very welcome. Just click on this link Virtual Scandinavian Dance and we’ll send the Zoom URL and all the information you need.

Given that we are unable to meet in person, we have been gathering via Zoom to get some exercise to beautiful traditional Scandinavian music, and some “different” music we have been throwing in just for fun. In each virtual session, we teach a dance that can be done without a partner. Then during the open dancing part of the evening, we play some couple dance music so people can dance inside their “bubble” or just listen.

The tentative plan for the evening is as follows:

7:30 – 8:00 pm Pacific Time – Join In and Social Time
8:00 – 8:20 pm – Dance Teaching – BOOT SCOOTIN’ BOOGIE
8:20 – 8:50 pm – Recorded Music – dance along in your living room or just listen
8:50 – 9:10 pm – “Coffee Break” and Announcements
9:10 – 9:40 pm – Recorded Music and Last Waltz

More info: Scandinavian Dancers of Vancouver […]

By dale|2020-08-07T12:09:00-07:00August 7th, 2020|Dance, Live, Party, Workshop|0 Comments

“East Coast” Virtual Camp August 14 – 16, 2020

Happy Saturday, everyone!

After a really fun “West Coast” weekend, we’ve decided to do it again–with an East Coast twist. Join us for our second Virtual Camp on August 14-16, 2020. Our website will update with faculty and performers as they’re added, and you can register here. Read on for additional details!

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In 1977, the EEFC offered the first of many wonderful getaway Balkan Music & Dance Workshops. In 2020, we’re excited to roll with the punches and debut our online edition, which you can enjoy from the comfort of home.

Thanks to high-speed internet, we continue to welcome new friends and old to our community of musicians, singers, dancers, and those who love them. Beginners and advanced practitioners will continue to “rub shoulders” while benefiting from the expertise of our extraordinary teaching staff and enjoying bliss-inducing live-music performances. We can’t provide the traditional rustic redwoods setting nor a superb glamping experience in the Catskills, but this Virtual Camp weekend retains our signature style—an immersive learning experience that opens hearts and minds to the beauty of Balkan music, dance, and culture.

The Platform
We’re using

By dale|2020-08-06T14:08:01-07:00August 6th, 2020|Balkan, Dance, Information, Live, Party, Singing, Workshop|0 Comments

Online Israeli dance workshop this Saturday, August 8!

If we’ve learned anything at all during this pandemic

It’s that our finding fun should be anything but academic!

We have options galore to dance around the world

Such opportunities help our flags come unfurled.

Are you stuck in a rut? Now try other things!

Social distancing allows us to stretch our dance wings!

Try this and try that – there’s nothing to lose

We can go anywhere virtually, do anything we choose!

I strongly suggest that you join us on Saturday

When an Israeli dance workshop will be underway.

Aaron Alpert’s the leader and he’s ready to rock

Don’t hesitate, everyone to this workshop should flock!

Links of importance for August 8

The log-in link can be found here on the Folk Arts Center’s website.
Donations to support this workshop and the Folk Arts Center of New England can be made by clicking here.

Looking ahead – August 15 and 22

August 15: Richard Powers, regaling us with a history of the evolution of swing dance, highlighting in particular the Big Apple dance club in Columbia, South Carolina.
August 22: Gergana Panova, joining us for the first time online as she presents Bulgarian dances with charm and enthusiasm!

Take my […]

By dale|2020-08-06T13:59:52-07:00August 6th, 2020|Dance, Israeli, Live, Workshop|0 Comments

Kypseli Virtual Greek dance workshop with Joseph Graziosi Sat August 8

Kypseli Greek Dance Center is hosting a virtual Greek dance workshop with Joseph Graziosi via Zoom on Saturday, August 8 from his home on Cape Cod, MA.

He plans on demonstrating leader variations and improvisations for Kritikos Syrtos and Levendikos/Pusteno and more.

See www.kypseli.org for details.

1:00 pm PDT
3:00 pm CDT
4:00 pm EDT
23:00 in Greece

Join the workshop:
https://zoom.us/j/99879798930

Donations welcome via

to moc.loa@0301namlibfezoj

Email moc.liamg@esperox
for alternate ways to donate.
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By dale|2020-08-06T13:36:25-07:00August 4th, 2020|Balkan, Dance, Live, Workshop|0 Comments

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