Texas
International Folk Dancers
TIFD eLetter for March
2010
Contact Newsletter editor Sally
Jenkins and new eLetter editor Anne Schaffer with your news at editor@tifd.org.
By emailing editor@tifd.org, you get both.
Sally will continue doing the 4 big Newsletters a year and Anne will do the 8
eLetters a year. Deadline for sending in information for the next newsletter is
April 25, 2010. This March eLetter is my (Terri’s) last one. It’s been fun.
Thanks Anne for taking over.
TIFD NEWS:
TIFD
Board met
February 27th at home of Jan and John Bloom in Houston. We said goodbye
to outgoing board members Mike Revesz and Anne Alexander. Mike has been
President this past year and will continue on several committees. Anne will
continue as webmaster and on several committees. Speaking of the TIFD website, visit
it for a wrap up of our 2009 Texas Camp, TX camp photos, photos of lost/found
items, upcoming dance events world-wide, etc.
New
Board officers and members
are as follows:
President Terri Chadwick from San
Antonio
Vice
Pres Susie Thennes from
Dallas
Secretary Misi Tsurikov from Austin
Assist
Treas. Shelley Allison from
Dallas
area
Historian Jan Bloom from Houston
Sound
Chair Bruce Bostwick from Austin
area
Publications Sally Jenkins from Tulsa, Oklahoma area
eLetter
Ed. Anne Schaffer from Houston
Camp
Co-Chair Jo Soto from Austin area
Ex-officio
Board members
continuing are Georgia Horn, Treasurer, Chuck Roth, Membership, and Lissa
Bengtson, Camp
Co-Chair.
2009
Camp Co-Chairs Garry Karner and Lisa Horn reported that the Camp surveys
indicated most attendees were pleased with camp. Board attendees addressed the
few problems cited. Lissa and Jo outlined some exciting possibilities for 2010
Texas Camp. Next Board Meeting will be noon, May 8th in Austin at the home of
Chuck Roth.
Texas
Camp
Syllabi Master Index
Update, Do you have a stack of syllabi from previous Texas
Thanksgiving Folk Dance Camps sitting around your home? Have you ever wanted to teach or review a
folk dance that you learned at camp, but you can’t remember which year it was
taught? Your problem is solved. We have posted an updated master index of
Texas Camp syllabi on the TIFD web page at http://tifd.org/TexasCampSyllabiIndex.pdf . This index
lists over 1400 dances published in Texas Camp syllabi from 1954 through
2009. In addition to the camp year and
page number, the index lists the formation and instructor for most dances. Some background material and songs are also
indexed. Sally Jenkins from Tulsa and Chuck Roth
from Austin
compiled the Index. We plan to add the
early years of Texas Camp at a later time.
Grants:
Don’t
forget that TIFD offers grants to groups and individuals furthering TIFD goals.
One group in 2009 successfully received a “stop-gap” grant to cover any losses
for a workshop/dance program. Check the TIFD website for applications. www.tifd.org
AREA
NEWS:
Austin:
AIFD continues its Bulgarian Blowout begun in Febuary by teaching favorite
Bulgarian dances every Saturday night. March 6th is a review of Sedi Donka and
additional variations for Gankino Horo. March 27th they’ll have a “giant dance
party” featuring The Inheritance. Come on all you Giants, let’s go to the
party.
Dallas:
Many Dallas folk dancers attended the
Bulgarian folk dance workshop with Peter Petrov, Artistic Director of
Ludo Mlado Dance Ensemble in Boston, MA, on Feb. 26th at the Plaza Arts
Center in Carrollton. The event was
sponsored by the Bulgarian American Cultural Center (BACC) "Bulgare".
Houston:
On
Feb 20th, HIFD hosted their YOW (Your Own Workshop) again at the Oddfellows
Hall. I was there and I know that I danced the Debka Dor, Megdansko Horo, Esmer,
Floricica Olteneasca, Bouree Pastourelle. And maybe some others. Great party
too.
Tulsa:
Sally Jenkins attended the Feb TIFD Board meeting via
Skype.
OTHER
NEWS:
San
Antonio:
IFFC
has folk, Scottish, contra, salsa, folklorico, line, samba, middle eastern,
square, Azteca, hula dancing. www.ollusa.edu/s/1190/ollu-3-column-noads.aspx?sid=1190&gid=1&pgid=2988.
SAFD Tues group is having 12-15 dancers every Tuesday at Incarnate Word University. www.SanAntonioFolkDancers.org
EVENTS:
March
10-14, Dallas,
National
Accordion Association Convention. http://accordions.com/naa/
March
12-14, San Antonio Folk Dance
Festival
at Our Lady of the Lake (OLLU) International Folk Culture
Center (IFCC). Teachers
Christian Florescu and Sonia Dion for Romanian, Sandy Starkman for
International, George Fogg for English, Nick Bratkovich on Accordion, Vonnie
Brown for Culture Corner. www.safdf.org
March 13, Houston, Contra Double Dance
with potluck dinner between dances. Music by Andrew and Noah VanNorstrand of the
Great Bear Trio, calling by Grant Goodyear and Keith Holmes. www.hatds.org
March
14, Burton, TX,
Contra dance in La Bahia Hall featuring Austin callers and Great Bear Trio as described
above.
March
14, Austin,
Zydeco Dance with Curley Taylor and Zydeco Trouble, 2:00-6:30 pm. Mercury Hall.
http://aifd.cc/zydeco.html.
March 19-21, Dallas, Set for Spring English Country Dance
Weekend, Foxfire playing, Joseph Pimentel calling, Dallas Arts Center Ballroom.
www.nttds.org/setspring10/flier.html
March
20, Libuse,
LA,
Czech Heritage Festival. Info
from David Holcombe, daniho402@gmail.com
April
2010, Portland,
OR,
National Folk Organization Annual
Conference.
http://www.nfo-usa.org/Conference2010.htm
April
23-25, Dallas,
When In Doubt, Swing, contra weekend.
Bob Dalsemer calling with Steve Hickman and Evening Star. www.nttds.org
May 21-23, San Antonio Contra Dance
Weekend at IFCC on the
OLLU campus, featuring Sue Rosen calling to the music of Rodney Miller &
Bruce Rosen. www.sacontradancers.org
June 3-6, Beloit, WI, June Camp,
dance teachers: Kete Ilievski,
Macedonia, Marilyn (Wathen)
Smith, France, Beloit College with air-conditioned dorms.
Evenings of request parties, Dance Exchange workshop, live music dance party
Saturday evening, following our classic Happy Hour. Music jamming sessions,
traditional Saturday ice cream social, and late-night dancing. Scholarships. http://sites.google.com/site/junecampifd/
June
11-13, Oklahoma
City,
Flamingo Fling, Contra dance weekend. www.scissortail.org
WANDERLUST
Several
folk dance teachers lead tours and cruises with emphasis on folk dancing.
Tineke
Van Geel leads tours of Armenia, May and September
2010.
Information
at www.tinekevangeel.nl
Mel
Mann leads dance tours every year; in June 2010 he is taking a group to
China and the Yangtze River. Information at http://folkdanceonthewater.org
2010
Jim Gold tours, www.jimgold.com
March
7-19, Israel, Jerusalem, Tel Aviv, Galilee, etc. led by Jim Gold, Joe
Freedman
March
26-April 5, Budapest, Spring Festival Tour, led by Adam
Molnar
June
12-22, Norway, Oslo, Bergen, Hoving, Fjord Cruise, Voss, etc led by
Lee Otterholt
July
30-Aug 9, Hungary, Budapest, Eger, Hortobagy Plain, etc., led by Adam
Molnar
Aug
2-15, Bulgaria, Koprivshtitsa
Festival Tour, Sofia, Bansko, etc., led by Jim
Gold
Sept
3-17, Poland, Warsaw, Krakow, Zakopane, Wroclaw, Torun, Malbork,
Gdansk
Oct
9-24, Greece, Crete,
Greek Islands, Mycenae, etc. led by Jim Gold, Lee
Otterholt.
Quote:
Movement is a medicine for creating change in a person’s physical, emotional and
mental states. Carol Welch