Next Dance - Friday, October 23
Elks Lodge (2nd floor Ballroom)
112 N. Pattee St - 7 to 8:30 PM
Free Will Donation
Hello Dancers! Thank you to those dancers that joined us at the Caras Park Pavilion for dancing this summer. Your energy brought comfortable evenings and clear skies. There will be future discussions about doing it again next summer.
What is ahead?
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We have a good collection of fun and relatively easy dances, and we will continue to offer those.
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There are also a good number of other dances that take a little more time to teach.
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There are also a good number of dances with arms and feet that just take practice.
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Many of you have expressed an interest in moving to a night other than Fridays. I'm game for that.
Thoughts: We can discuss this more at the October dance, but here is my thinking:
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At our October dance we will just dance and I will review some dances we haven't done in a while.
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I'm thinking of moving dances to a Tuesday evening and trying to avoid conflicts with holidays.
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For November and December, and probably off and on from January through April/May, we will get together to dance but I will run it more like a class and spend time working on dances that take longer to teach.
Come join us! Questions? Send a message through the contact page.
Bal Folk derives its name from traditional “folk balls” held around western Europe. Over the last decade western European folk music and dance has experienced a revival that is sweeping across Europe and gaining momentum in the North America.
Bal Folk dances are participatory events, based on traditional dances gathered from all over Europe that have easy basic steps, everyone can get involved, and dancers are free from gender-defined roles. The music is based mostly on western European traditional tunes, but "amped up" with new arrangements or new compositions written for Bal Folk dancing. It’s not just the dancing, the music, or the traditions – it’s the magic that happens when we put it all together.