Plans for Thursday, May 28

We will start out with some easy dances, then teach Koritsa (video) from Albania. Have a demostration of Hula E Huli Makou (video) followed by open requests from the taught dance list. Think about what dances you want to do.

Plans for Thursday, May 21

Thursday May 21, 2009.

For the remaining classes until our summer break, we will sample dances from countries we have not explored yet: Russia, Albania, Armenia, and Turkey.

This week, after a few warm-up dances, we will be teaching Ya da kalinushku lomala ("I have picked the snowball-tree"). This is a lovely women's line dance from Russia. Its video can be seen at http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=faALhSrcoZY&feature=channel_page . The dance notes can be found here Stockton Folk Dance Camp Syllabus 08 .

This will be followed by request dancing from the taught dance list above.

This coming Thursday, May 14, we will start with a few warm-up dances. Then Toba will share a slow Israeli line dance Kvar Acharey Chatsot, which she uses for her cool down dance for our Sunday Israeli dance class. then we will review Ba La.

After the review we will take requests from the current dance list.

The mid-term party last week was a lot of fun! We danced the following requests:
Waves
Kortanc
Syrto
Carnavalito
Tsamiko
Dana
An Dro Retourne
Hora Mare
Zemer Atik
Circle Reinlender
Raka
Hora de Munte
Cicerenella Tarantella
Setnja
Chilili
Ba La
Robin Ddiog
Syrto (again)

Hope to see everyone, this Thursday, May 7. It will be an all request party from the taught dance list. Come and dance some fun dances. We will discuss the future focus of the class during the 8:15 break.

Thursday April 30 Class

Last night, we tried something new. Instead of a set program for the entire evening we started with a few warm-up dances, taught two dances, and then, did dances requested by the class members.

Last night's program:

Waves (line from Hong Kong)
Kortanc (line from Hungary)
Carnavalito (line from Bolivia)
Taught Tsamiko (line from Greece)
Taught Ba La (couple mixer Cha Cha from Israel)
Hora Mare (line Romania)

The following dances were played at the request of class members:
Zemer Atik (line from Israel)
Syrto (line from Greece)
Dana (solo Gypsy from Romania)
An dro retourne (line from France)
Robin Ddiog (line from Wales)

Good news. The Sacramento International Folk Dance and Arts Council has agreed to continue the class through the last Thursday in June. We will take a summer break for July and August. We hope to resume in September.

This coming Thursday will be the midterm party. We will not be teaching any new dances and it will be an all-request party from the current taught dance list (see below).

Please contact us if you want to see changes in the class. Roy Butler click name for email.

Now that we have 27 dances in our list we will slow down a bit: only teaching one dance a meeting and reviewing only when the class needs a review.

The format for the rest of the class will be three simple warm-up dances, teach one new dance, review the prior week's dance, and then, dance requests from the class.

Please tell us about what you want to get out of the class. The class is for you!

Everybody: come to next week's midterm party. Make a request and dance your favorite dances!

Long time dancers: please join us! As you can see from the dance list, we do a number of fun dances, and your presence makes it easier for the beginning dancers.

Taught Dance list

1. An dro retourne (line from France)
2. Ba La (couple mixer Cha Cha from Israel)
3. Carnavalito (line from Bolivia)
4. Chapelloise (couple mixer from France)
5. Cicerenella Tarantella (couple from Italy)
6. Cha Cha (couple from USA and Cuba)
7. Chilili (couple from Bolivia)
8. Circle Reinlender (couple mixer from Norway)
9. Dana (solo Gypsy from Romania)
10. Fast Hassapiko (line from Greece)
11. Hora Mare (line from Romania)
12. Hora de Munte (line from Romania)
13. Kortanc (line from Hungary)
14. La Bastringue (couple from France)
15. Lesnoto (line from Macedonia)
16. Pravo (line from Bulgaria)
17. Raka (line from Bulgaria)
18. Reinlender/Schottische (couple from Norway, Sweden)
19. Robin Ddiog (line from Wales)
20. Setnja (line from Serbia)
21. Shibolet Bassadeh (line from Israel)
22. Syrto (line from Greece)
23. Tsamiko (line from Greece)
24. U'sest (line from Serbia)
25. Ve David (couple mixer from Israel)
26. Waves (line from Hong Kong)
27. Zemer Atik (line from Israel)
    
    Dance to Live, Live to Dance.
    Roy