Henry’s new YouTube channel offers International Folk Music and Dance videos. Everyone can learn and dance these folk dances without attending a formal session or if there are no opportunities in your area. This channel is hosted by Henry Temchin, a long time folk dancer currently living in Greenacres, Florida.
Henry has uploaded over 100 folk dance videos in only one month (since 2 March 2020).
Join us for a dance party with live music by Clara Byom
on Saturday, May 2, at 7pm Mountain Time (6pm PT, 9pm ET).
The ZOOM link will be available at www.swifdi.org
See Flyer here.
We hope to see you there!
Live Music Dance WorkshopOnline via Zoom on your nearest web browser or device!
To benefit the Folk Arts Center of New England
Visit Workshop listing on FACONE for details.
Join Tom Pixton (accordion, vocals), Julia Poirier (guitar, vocals) and the Folk Arts Center as we present our first live music dance workshop of the socially distanced era via Zoom, the popular teleconferencing platform.
Tom and Julia have been playing for International Folk Dance for 30 years. In this workshop, they’ll play some of your favorite dances and provide some commentary on playing for dance. To respect social distancing, they will be in different locations in the same studio, connected to a common audio mix to avoid latency.
Click here to Start the Zoom Dancing
Many more details on how to donate, how to connect, and what to bring on the FACONE website.
This I know: Have candles handy for Mom Bar!
South Coast Folk Society presents nice, easy dances. Well taught and with live music.
Episode 1 features D’r Maia, Mama Maria, Damat Halayi, Lerikos, Stroll-along Cha Cha, Opsa, Ma Na’vu.
Episode 2 features Lesnoto, Cobankat, Mori shej, Waltz Across Texas, Flor Amorosa, Bat Tsurim, Green Earth, Itele.
In honor of Israel Independence Day, I have compiled 5 special Israeli dance NEW collections at: https://rokdim.co.il/#/:
This week, Orly and I are excited to welcome the amazing Michael Barzelai, choreographer of favorites like Normali, Aneni, Salam, Shneinu, and many more. We’ll be celebrating Israel’s 72nd birthday with lots of Yom Ha’atzmaut dances!
Join us Wed., Apr. 29, 6-9pm Pacific, on Zoom (meeting ID: 512-501-420, password: balagan), or just click below.
Click to join! (Password: balagan)
San Antonio Folk Dancers are continuing their Zoom dancing this Tuesday 7-9pm CDT. “Doors” open around 6:45pm.
ZOOM MEETING LINK UPDATE (2020-05-27)
Join Zoom Meeting
https://us02web.zoom.us/j/
Meeting ID: 854 7180 9185
See here for a list of dances. The plan is to do those in bold but Denes will take requests.
[Taking requests is tricky: I may not remember every dance 🙂 Please be forgiving.]
There is a dance in the list that we have not done before. Please look at San Antonio Folk Dancers Facebook page to see (and perhaps learn) it.
Happy Dancing!
Hey Party People!
REMINDER: Join us every Friday at 8pm (PST) for L.I.F.E. Balkan Dancers on Zoom until we return to dancing together at LA Dancefit in West LA! Bring your dancing shoes and your own snacks and we will dance to your requests! If you have not yet contacted Sherry by e-mail for the private link and given her your requests both for dances and for teaching, please do so before noon (PST) on Friday. If you have the link from 4/10 and beyond you are good to go! We will be doing a couple of walkthroughs and lots of dancing to your requests. Teaching videos and lots of other inspiring stuff is on YouTube https://www.youtube.com/user/LifeBalkanDancers/videos
BTW- we have completed one month of Friday Night L.I.F.E. on Zoom! Wow! It is a pleasure to continue to serve our dance community.
Love and Light,
Sherry
lifebalkandancers.com
During normal times, World Dance offers daily classes in Santa Barbara, with all proceeds going to our work in Rwanda, where we are helping 11,500 genocide survivors lift themselves out of poverty.
With the outbreak of COVID-19, we suspended our regular classes, but we were determined to help people sheltering at home by providing a fun, free, uplifting daily dance experience.
Since the start of the shut-down, we’ve been offering daily dance classes on Zoom. It’s been wonderful, bringing together people isolated at home…through dance! Many of us are dancing every day now, increasing our stamina, strength, and flexibility. Beyond that, we’re enjoying a big dose of community, social connection, and joy!
We offer a new array of music and dance styles each day, from belly dance to Bhangra, mambo to Motown, samba to swing. The dances are simple enough for beginners to follow, but varied and challenging enough to keep experienced dancers interested and inspired. The participants come from Santa Barbara (where we’re based), and from Italy, England, France, Costa Rica, Ecuador, and Africa!
We have also put our classes on YouTube so people can follow along at home anytime—beginner to more advanced dances. Our latest offering is a “gentle” class: […]
This Saturday, April 25:
ONLINE Dance Party with Ahmet Lüleci, Roberto Bagnoli, Joe Graziosi, and Zeljko Jergan
2:00-4:00pm EDT
with a short break before 3pm
Join Ahmet, Roberto, Joe, Zeljko, and the Folk Arts Center as we present a dance party via Zoom. All four teachers will review a few of the dances they taught over the past month in their individual Saturday afternoon workshops.
Click here for Zoom Dancing Link
Go to the workshop page for more details and to donate to FACONE: http://www.facone.org/programs/online-dance-party.html
Come Join Us and have fun with “Dancing Well at Home”
Here are dance sessions Especially For Kids of veteran and military families, but ALL ARE WELCOME! These recorded videos are available free of charge 24 hours each day. To join the live fun, tune in to Facebook/DancingWell Wednesdays at 4pm EST. facebook.com/DancingWell.
For further information see the dancing well at home website.
ROBERTO BAGNOLI
FOLK DANCE TEACHER
Together while Apart
Visit Roberto’s website for all the details and to make a donation – Thanks! 
Due to the fact that YOM HASHOAH & YOM HAZIKARON fall on Monday night, April 20th and Monday night, April 27th, I have moved the virtual class (below) to Wednesday, April 22nd and Wednesday, April 29th at 2:30pm EDT.
I am sending this out to all of you on my mailing list and am posting this here on my facebook page where the class takes place: https://www.facebook.com/dancewithira
Let us all take this time to remember the victims of the Holocaust and the Fallen Soldiers of Israel and Victims of Terrorism. We will celebrate YOM HA-ATZMAUT on Wednesday, April 29th !! The Playlist for Wednesday is attached below !!
Stay safe, stay well, stay home & stay strong
Ira 
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Helen Winkler and her daughter Rita (who has Down syndrome) are regularly posting a series of Youtube and Facebook dances that they call Living Room Dances because they occur in their living room. These dances all come from an adapted dance program that Helen teaches in Toronto for people who have intellectual disabilities. Some are modified folk dances and others are dances that they have created within their dance community to suit their participants. They intend to continue with their weekly postings until they have recorded all the dances that their group has done over the past 14 years:
https://sites.google.com/view/adapteddances/living-room-dances is the site where they archive everything.
Monday, April 27, 6pm PT
Zoom Party ID: 996-5911-3596
Password: dance
COME DANCE WITH LAGUNA DANCERS ON ZOOM
Lee Otterholt is inviting you to ZOOM LID DANCE MEETINGS.
APRIL: WEDNESDAY 15th and SUNDAY 19th
TIME: 6:00 – 8:00 pm
At 5:45 pm you will be able to join your friends in the ZOOM waiting room to socialize and chat.
The dance teacher and leader is Lee Otterholt, The first half hour will be teaching and dancing of some easier dances, to be followed by teaching and dancing of some more challenging dances.
If you do have requests to be taught, reviewed, or danced, please email your request to :
moc.oohay@tlohrettoeel
TO JOIN THE ZOOM MEETINGS:(Wed.and Sun )
Click on the link below.
LID ZOOM MEETINGS.
MEETING ID: 973 571 5210
PASSWORD : 323823
Feel free to make donations to LAGUNA INTERNATIONAL DANCERS $ 7.00
To donate with PayPal, debit or […]
Yves Moreau is posting videos regularly on his Facebook page. What a treat!
Today’s dance (#5) is KRIVO PLOVDIVSKO HORO (11/8), from the region of Plovdiv in West Trakiya, Bulgaria. Presented in February 2015 at the Rivieradance! workshop organized by Cathy Meunier in Torquay (England). Videotaping of the review session by Ron Wilks. See video here.
Today's dance (#5) is KRIVO PLOVDIVSKO HORO (11/8), from the region of Plovdiv in West Trakiya, Bulgaria. Presented in February 2015 at the Rivieradance! workshop organized by Cathy Meunier in Torquay (England). Videotaping of the review session by Ron Wilks.
Posted by Yves Moreau on Monday, April 13, 2020
Online via Zoom on your nearest web browser or device!
Join Croatian dance expert Željko Jergan and the Folk Arts Center as we present our fourth dance workshop of the socially distanced era via Zoom, the popular teleconferencing platform.
All the details on the FACONE website. It shows you what you need to do to join the fun!
See all the details in the newsletter here.
Website: Movin’ Around the World: Virtual
During these times of uncertainty, Northwest Folklife and Seattle Center remain committed to uplifting our community and celebrating the arts and culture of our region while we navigate a world that requires us to remain physically apart at this time. That’s why we’re taking Movin’ Around the World online! Movin’ Around the World: Virtual, Apr. 13-17, 2020, invites youth and families to experience the cultures of our Pacific Northwest neighbors from your own home.
Starting on Monday, kids and families can participate in dance, music, and culture from local artists and culture bearers, as they showcase performances and workshops through recorded videos that will be uploaded daily onto the Movin’ Around the World: Virtual website.
