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ONLINE Balkan Folk Dance Workshop with Steve Kotansky

This Saturday, May 9: Steve Kotansky
ONLINE Balkan Folk Dance Workshop with Steve Kotansky
First workshop: 2:00pm EDT
Second workshop: 3:00pm EDT

Here is the link to the Zoom page for Saturday’s workshop.

The Workshops
Steve Kotansky, known widely as a versatile dancer and teacher, has made many research trips to Bulgaria, the former Yugoslavia, Romania, Hungary, and Greece. He has taught at major folk dance camps all over North America and Europe and has performed and choreographed for many performing ensembles throughout the U.S. and Europe. Steve is also active as a teacher and researcher of dance in North American Albanian and Macedonian Roma communities. Steve brings a lively, in-depth knowledge to his teaching, and an intense joy to his dancing.

Making a donation
Steve and our other leaders are donating their time and talent to bringing us together in dance every Saturday in May and early June. They are doing this as a fundraiser for the Folk Arts Center of New England, a non-profit, 501(c)(3) organization that was founded in 1975. The FAC mission is to promote the participation in the traditional folk arts of different countries, particularly music and dance. We are honored […]

By |2020-05-08T10:32:09-07:00May 8th, 2020|Balkan, Dance, International, Live, Workshop|0 Comments
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Update to Friday Night L.I.F.E.

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 (moc.liamg@1ecnadlrow) 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 lots of dancing to your requests. Teaching videos and lots of other inspiring stuff is on youTube  https://www.youtube.com/user/LifeBalkanDancers/videos

We began this virtual journey on 3/27/20, two weeks after we had to close our live sessions. Wow! It is a pleasure to continue to serve our dance community.

Love and Light,
Sherry
lifebalkandancers.com

By |2020-07-08T22:27:28-07:00May 8th, 2020|Balkan, Dance, International, Live, Party, Workshop|0 Comments
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Virtual Solo English Country Dance May 10

New Mexico Folk Music and Dance Society
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/folkmads/

Virtual Solo English Country Dance on May 10 from 7-9:30 MT (6-8:30 PT)
Please join the New Mexico Folk Music and Dance Society for a Special Event!!

Solo English Country Dances
May 10th, 2020 | 7pm
Caller: Noralyn Parsons
Musician: Clara Byom (Clara Byom Music)
Suggested donation of $5-10.

Join us via zoom link, which will be available on the FolkMADS Website, the Facebook event, Noralyn’s Second Sunday Reminder Email List, and the FolkMADS Thursday Email. Please share this information with anyone you know who might be interested!

Donations will be accepted to support NM FolkMADS! Donate via the PayPal link at the bottom of our website homepage.

By |2020-05-04T23:49:56-07:00May 4th, 2020|Dance, English, Live, Workshop|0 Comments
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Global Folk Dance Party on May 9, 2020

Hope everybody enjoyed the last party, our next party is this Saturday, May 9, 3pm to 6pm PT.
Information here:

Join Zoom Party: https://zoom.us/j/600066908
Or watch on Facebook Live: https://www.facebook.com/PFDCouncil/

We appreciate your comments, suggestions and requests; keep them coming.

Then, join the afterparty at IFDA St. Louis Virtual Dance Party!

More notes:

  • Based on feedback, there will be less teaching and more dancing.
  • The party after May 9 will be on May 30, then June 20, when we shift to our new normal day of 3rd Saturday of each month.
  • We’re continuing to improve on our music and video sync quality and think you’ll like the continued improvements.
  • In May, we’ll have our normal team, as well […]
By |2020-05-04T23:21:35-07:00May 4th, 2020|Dance, International, Live, Party|0 Comments
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IsraelFEST with Roberto on Zoom

The next event will be a Israeli Dance Online Party on Sunday, May 10th starting at 5pm CEST (11am EST and 8am PDT), using the Zoom platform.

Join the next Zoom Meeting to see others taking part and chat

https://us04web.zoom.us/j/3125941469
Meeting ID: 312 594 1469

The Party is free. Please spread the word. Share it with your folk dance friends.

Looking forward to staying in touch and seeing everybody

Roberto

For more information about online dancing events, request a dance or make a donation see Roberto’s website: www.morenu.it

By |2020-05-04T22:19:01-07:00May 4th, 2020|Dance, Israeli, Live, Party|0 Comments
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International Folk Song Exchange & Bulgarian Folk Singing Technique

Vlada Tomova is excited to invite you to three different folk singing offerings: Vlada will be either leading, or hosting on Zoom in the upcoming months. She is planning on May and June for now, and shall see how life goes after that in these unprecedented times.

Feel free to pass this on – all levels are welcome, and the classes are by donation, or free!

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Sing Bulgarian ornaments with ease! – Vlada will lead with this one to start

  • Mondays, 8-9 PM EDT (45 min singing, 15 Q&A, send in your recording for feedback)
  • 15$ suggested donation (pay what you can)
  • starting May 4

Learn your favorite Bulgarian folk songs with a native singer! – Vlada will lead with this one to start, with special guest teachers

  • Saturday, 4:30-5:30 pm EDT (if you have a song you’ve been aching to learn, or find out more about its meaning, send it her way)
  • 10$ suggested donation (pay what you can)
  • starting May 9

International folk song exchange! – led by native singers from around the world

  • Sunday, 4:30-5:30 pm EDT (Q&A follows)
  • FREE!
  • May 10 – Mavrothi Kontanis (Greece), a great singer, oud player, and teacher, well known and loved in the […]
By |2020-05-04T22:07:55-07:00May 4th, 2020|Balkan, Live, Singing, Workshop|0 Comments
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St Louis Virtual Dance Party May 9

Saturday, May 9, 6:30-8:30 pm Pacific Time, International Folk Dancers Association of University City (St. Louis, MO) hosts a virtual dance party on Zoom. Everyone is welcome! Follow this FB page for details https://www.facebook.com/events/241255463924801/

The Zoom Link is https://zoom.us/my/ifdauc

No Teaching, just dancing!!! We will all be dancing together since we know we are all missing a sense of community right now.
We hope that you will join us!!!

Dance requests can be submitted here.

By |2020-05-04T21:33:12-07:00May 4th, 2020|Dance, International, Live, Party|1 Comment
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Surrey Folk Dance Wednesdays

Wednesdays at 7pm PDT, Surrey International Folk Dancing Society presents their dance class online using Zoom. Almost every dance is reviewed before dancing. Everyone welcome.

What is our repertoire, you ask? Check out the dances we’ve done lately  and dances done in the last couple of years on the Surrey Folk Dance website.

SIFD Zoom Dancing Session
Time: Wednesday 07:00 PM Pacific Time (US and Canada)
Until further notice

See it on the Events Calendar

Join Zoom Dancing
Meeting ID: 830 645 734
Password: Sifd

By |2020-06-10T18:25:54-07:00April 28th, 2020|Dance, International, Live, Workshop|0 Comments
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Dancin’ in the Seats

Steve Weintraub is offering Facebook Live sessions –

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 abilites find these dances delightful.

These are all seated dances!

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

Times: M/W at 11:00 AM and T/Th at 3:00 PM ET

By |2020-04-28T22:30:16-07:00April 28th, 2020|Anytime, Dance, Live, Workshop|1 Comment
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Tom Pixton and Julia Poirier Live Music Dance Workshop

Live Music Dance Workshop

Popular dances with live music and commentary
Tom Pixton and Julia Poirier

Saturday, May 2, 2020
Workshop: 2:00-4:00pm EDT

Online 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!

By |2020-04-30T18:25:09-07:00April 28th, 2020|Dance, International, Live, Party|0 Comments
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Zoom-Cali Israeli Dance Virtually on Zoom

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)

By |2020-04-27T12:37:50-07:00April 26th, 2020|Dance, Israeli, Live, Workshop|0 Comments
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Zoom dancing in San Antonio Tuesdays 7-9pm CDT

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/85471809185

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!

By |2020-05-27T11:35:02-07:00April 26th, 2020|Dance, International, Live, Workshop|0 Comments
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LA and Beyond Friday Night LIFE Virtual Dance Parties Reminder

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

By |2020-04-25T22:39:43-07:00April 25th, 2020|Balkan, Dance, International, Live, Party|0 Comments
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World Dance For Humanity Building Community During The Covid Crisis

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: […]

By |2020-04-25T22:40:21-07:00April 25th, 2020|Anytime, Dance, Exercise, Live, Workshop|0 Comments
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FACONE Online Dance Party Sat April 25

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

By |2020-04-24T10:43:26-07:00April 24th, 2020|Dance, International, Live, Party|0 Comments
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Dancing Well At Home Especially for Kids

Dancing Well at Home

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.

By |2020-04-24T10:10:28-07:00April 24th, 2020|Anytime, Dance, Live, Workshop|0 Comments
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Dance with Ira Weisburd Date Change Update

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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By |2020-04-20T16:46:59-07:00April 20th, 2020|Dance, Israeli, Live, Workshop|0 Comments
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Hungarian Folk Singing Class every Monday on Zoom

From Zina Bozzay via the eefc list:

It’s lovely to see the various classes and other events being offered online during this pandemic. In mid-March I also took my weekly singing class in Budapest online, and we’ve been greatly enjoying it. People have been joining in from various countries, and I wanted to extend the invitation to the broader community.

The class covers a variety of traditional folk songs, using village source recordings, and includes pronunciation, translation of the song lyrics, stylistic details, background information, and more. This coming Monday I’ll be starting new songs, and new participants are welcome to join any week. Fortunately with the time difference it works well for many both in North America and Europe (6pm Budapest time is 9am in California and 12 noon in New York). We’ll be holding it every Monday this way for at least the next 6 weeks, through the end of May.

Open to all – no previous experience in the style required.

All info can be found here:
Main website: www.zinabozzay.com/nepdalkor
Class registration and FAQs: www.zinabozzay.com/register-for-virtual-nepdalkor
Facebook event page: www.facebook.com/events/915466158867586/
And on this flyer.

Hope to see some of […]

By |2020-04-24T10:45:49-07:00April 18th, 2020|Live, Singing, Workshop|0 Comments
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