Workshop

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 dale|2020-05-04T22:07:55-07:00May 4th, 2020|Balkan, Live, Singing, Workshop|0 Comments

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 dale|2020-06-10T18:25:54-07:00April 28th, 2020|Dance, International, Live, Workshop|0 Comments

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 dale|2020-04-28T22:30:16-07:00April 28th, 2020|Anytime, Dance, Live, Workshop|1 Comment

Dance with Us – from Oregon

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.

Visit their YouTube Channel!

By dale|2020-04-28T10:41:59-07:00April 28th, 2020|Anytime, Dance, International, Workshop|0 Comments

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 dale|2020-04-27T12:37:50-07:00April 26th, 2020|Dance, Israeli, Live, Workshop|0 Comments

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 dale|2020-05-27T11:35:02-07:00April 26th, 2020|Dance, International, Live, Workshop|0 Comments

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 dale|2020-04-25T22:40:21-07:00April 25th, 2020|Anytime, Dance, Exercise, Live, Workshop|0 Comments

Dancing Well At Home Especially for Kids

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 dale|2020-04-24T10:10:28-07:00April 24th, 2020|Anytime, Dance, Live, Workshop|0 Comments

Roberto Bagnoli Together while Apart Classes

ROBERTO BAGNOLI
FOLK DANCE TEACHER
Together while Apart

Visit Roberto’s website for all the details and to make a donation – Thanks! Virtual Party Balkan Dancing

By dale|2020-04-27T12:38:26-07:00April 23rd, 2020|Balkan, Dance, International, Israeli, Live, Party, Workshop|0 Comments

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

By dale|2020-04-20T16:46:59-07:00April 20th, 2020|Dance, Israeli, Live, Workshop|0 Comments

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

Dancing with Laguna Folk Dancers Wed and Sun

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 […]

By dale|2020-04-24T10:50:42-07:00April 15th, 2020|Dance, International, Live, Workshop|0 Comments

Croatian Dance workshop with Zeljko Jergan April 18

Željko Jergan Croatian Dance Workshops

Saturday, April 18, 2020
First Workshop: 2:00-2:40pm EDT
Second Workshop: 3:00-3:40pm EDT

Online via Zoom on your nearest web browser or device!

To benefit the Folk Arts Center of New England

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!

By dale|2020-04-24T10:52:40-07:00April 13th, 2020|Balkan, Dance, Live, Workshop|0 Comments

Online: Roma culture discussion, Q&A, and dancing (April 19)

Sunday, April 19
4 – 6 PM

Zoom! (info to be posted here: https://www.facebook.com/events/145058390274059/)

From the Romas mouth to the Dancers Ears.
A discussion, Q & A, and DANCING with Melina Salifoski and Sonya Jasaroska and Jessaiah Zure.
An incredible opportunity to ask questions about the Roma culture, history, experience, dance movements, “costuming” and more, to these AMAZING women and sisters of mine who are of ROMA descent.

Start posting your questions so we can be ready for ya!
TIME&DAY SUBJECT TO CHANGE

By dale|2020-04-24T10:53:51-07:00April 12th, 2020|Balkan, Culture, Dance, Live, Workshop|0 Comments

Folkdance workshop with Dimitar Petrov (Mitko)

Click here for Online workshop on YouTube

If you like the video, please share it with your friends who like dancing.

I want everyone to be able to watch the video and dance with me. Don’t worry if you can’t make a donation, I know some people have very hard times now, many lost their job, just like me. A smaller or greater donation for those who can afford it is ok. Be healthy and enjoy dancing! – Mitko

Mitko’s website

By dale|2020-04-24T10:56:56-07:00April 12th, 2020|Anytime, Balkan, Dance, International, Workshop|0 Comments

Laguna International Folk Dancers Zoom Dancing April 12

COME DANCE WITH LAGUNA DANCERS ON ZOOM

Lee Otterholt is inviting you to a ZOOM LID DANCE MEETING.

SUNDAY APRIL 12, 6:00 – 8:00 pm

Lee Otterholt will do some dance teaching and some reviews

If you have dance requests for review, teaching or just dancing, send them to: moc.oohay@tlohrettoeeL
Click here to join the meeting

MEETING ID: 973 571 5210
PASSWORD: 323823

Feel free to make donations to LAGUNA INTERNATIONAL DANCERS $ 7.00
Click here to donate with PayPal, debit, or credit card.

For additional guidance for attending Zoom meeting
(credit to Sonia Connelly) and (Sherry Cochran )

What do I need to attend a group online
It’s free to download the Zoom app and attend meetings. You’ll need a computer, tablet, or phone, preferably with a camera (built-in is fine), a good internet connection, some open space to dance, and some dances you can do fairly well on your own. Optional: good speakers to make the music sound better.
How do I get started
Click on the meeting link before the meeting and install the Zoom app when prompted. Check that your sound and video work by

By dale|2020-04-24T10:57:11-07:00April 11th, 2020|Dance, International, Live, Workshop|0 Comments

SIFD Online Zoom Session #2 Wed April 15

Next Wednesday, April 15, 7pm PDT, will be Surrey International Folk Dancing Society’s second online dance class using Zoom. Every dance is reviewed before dancing.

What is our repertoire, you ask? Check out the dances we’ve done lately on the Surrey Folk Dance website.

SIFD Zoom Dancing Session
Time: Apr 15, 2020 07:00 PM Pacific Time (US and Canada)
Every week on Wed, until further notice

See it on the Events Calendar

Join Zoom Dancing
This is a protected link with password: sifd
Meeting ID: 830 645 734
Password: sifd

By dale|2020-06-02T13:15:00-07:00April 10th, 2020|Dance, International, Live, Workshop|0 Comments

Zoom Dance Workshop with Joe Graziosi

This Saturday, April 11:
ONLINE
Greek Dance Workshops
featuring Joe Kaloyanides Graziosi

First workshop: 2-2:40pm EDT
Second workshop: 3-3:40pm EDT

Announcing the Joe Kaloyanides Graziosi online dance workshops this Saturday, April 11! Here is the link to the Zoom page for Saturday’s workshop.

The Workshops

There are two workshops, one beginning at 2:00pm and the second beginning at 3:00pm. This is, of course, Boston, Massachusetts time, so you’ll have to calculate what time it is where you are! We have had tremendous turnouts for the workshops by Ahmet Lüleci and Roberto Bagnoli over the last two weeks, and the benefits were both financial (to FAC), and emotional (our round-the-world-community joined in dance on our computer screens). How exciting it will be to be together again on Saturday!

The two workshops will feature different material, so if you can, you should plan on devoting the whole time to being together.

Making a donation

Joe, along with Ahmet, Roberto, and (on April 18) Zeljko Jergan, are all donating their time and talent to bringing us together in dance every Saturday in April. They are doing this as a fundraiser for the Folk Arts Center of New England, a […]

By dale|2020-04-24T10:58:16-07:00April 9th, 2020|Dance, International, Live, Workshop|0 Comments

Dance workshop with Roberto Bagnoli

Folk Dance Workshops: Roberto’s Favorites

Saturday, April 4, 2020
First Workshop: 2:00-2:40pm EDT [11am PDT]
Second Workshop: 3:00-3:40pm EDT [Noon PDT]

Online via Zoom on your nearest web browser or device!

To benefit the Folk Arts Center of New England

Join folk dance leader Roberto Bagnoli and the Folk Arts Center as we present our second dance workshop of the socially distanced era via Zoom, the popular teleconferencing platform.

There is no charge to join this online workshop but we suggest a minimum donation of $10.

See all the details on the Folk Arts Center of New England website

Click this link to join the meeting.

By dale|2020-04-12T20:43:50-07:00April 3rd, 2020|Balkan, Dance, International, Live, Workshop|0 Comments

Bulgarian Dance Class with Cathie Springer

Event listed on Facebook here.
Thursday, 2 April 2020 from 19:00-20:00 EDT [4pm PDT]

Join us having fun with Bulgarian dances and their rhythms, for the next few weeks on Thursday evenings @07:00 PM Eastern Time (US and Canada)
This week’s theme: “Danced to the Nines”

JOIN OUR ZOOM MEETING (put the Zoom app on your phone or computer – it’s free)
https://us04web.zoom.us/j/3446109511
Meeting ID: 344 610 9511
Password: 426121

Yes, I will be ever so grateful if you are able to contribute $10 via Venmo (@CatherineES-Springer) or paypal (msg me for my email address or search on Catherine Springer) –or less if you, too, are like so many of my friends, now without your usual means of earning your keep…
See you at the dance!

PLEASE BE MINDFUL: the meeting has a limit of 100 people, so think about where and how you share this information. Thanks!!!
(((((♥)))))

By dale|2020-05-06T22:02:49-07:00April 2nd, 2020|Balkan, Dance, Live, Workshop|0 Comments

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