Welcome back Longhorns! Be sure to come dancing on Saturday, August 28th to get acquainted with some beginner dances from Greece, Bulgaria, Turkey and Macedonia. The intermediate dance that will be taught by Bob Gompf is Cetvorno Shopsko Horo. Since this is a chain dance, please bring belts.
The Austin International Folk Dancers meet almost every Saturday Night (7-11PM) at the Hancock Recreation Center, 811 E 41st St, in Austin Texas.
No partner is needed, and dancers of every skill level are welcome.
Our repertoire includes line dances, couples dances, and mixers. Folk dancing is a great social event and wonderful exercise.
We are often having intermediate teaching sessions and other special events! Please check our Teaching/Programming page or the Calendar for more information on upcoming events. Or feel free to Subscribe to our weekly newsletter for up to date information on what is happening at AIFD as well as information on fun dance events all over Austin and beyond!
| 7:00-7:30 pm | Equipment Setup – please come help out. |
| 7:30-8:00 pm | Teaching and walk throughs. |
| 8:00-9:30 pm | Request dancing. |
| 9:30-9:45 pm | Contra / announcements. |
| 9:45-10:30 pm | Request dancing. |
| 10:30-10:45 pm | Clean up. |
Title: Duquesne University Tamburitzans perform at Our Lady of the Lake in San Antonio
Location: Our Lady of the Lake (OLLU), 411 S.W. 24th St., San Antonio
Link out: Click here
Description: The Duquesne University Tamburitzans (”Tammies”) is America’s longest-running multicultural song and dance company. It is a unique ensemble of talented young folk artists dedicated to the performance and preservation of the music, songs, and dances of Eastern Europe and neighboring folk cultures.
Start Time: 19:00
Date: 2010-06-01
End Time: 21:00
Join us Friday, May 28th at Ruta Maya for an evening of international music and dancing!
The AIFD Annual Board Elections will be held on May 15th at Saturday Night Dancing during announcements (about 9:30).
The nominees for the next board are as follows:
President: Misi Tsurikov
Vice President: Jay Elbaor
Teaching Director: Vlad Codrea
Programming Director: John Scales
Secretary: Jasmine Guha-Castle
Treasurer: Bill Ogilvie
Hancock Recreation Center, Austin Texas
Cost: $10
Bizourka is today’s easygoing low-impact mazurka as done in northern France into Belgium (Flanders). The dancers there also go out dancing other forms, because they love all dancing, beyond folk dancing, and have blended subtle elements of salsa and tango into their mazurka. It’s low impact and very much fun to do. The music is also great, either traditional French mazurkas or bluesy/jazzy versions that sound like mazurka as done by Ry Cooder.
We’ll take a quick look at the 1958 Madison, then the fascinating evolution of the first four-wall line dance, the Hully-Gully (1962). The evolution includes how the French modified it, becoming what they now call Le Madison, the Italian version as still done today, the 1978 disco version, and the very minor change that became the Electric Slide.
For more information, see our special event page here
April 3, 2010 will be AIFD’s Annual April Fool’s Day party at Hancock Recreation Center!
The first hour will be teachings and walkthoughs for beginners night by Genevieve followed by very special program by Holly.
We will be featuring old tunes, new tunes, alternate versions and maybe even some foolish dances!
Hope to see you there!
Join us during February and March for our Bulgarian Blowout!
Each week we will be teaching some of our favorite Bulgarian dances followed by a giant dance party on March 27th featuring The Inheritance
