WASHINGTON, D.C.
AREA INTERNATIONAL FOLK DANCES
A list of international folk dances in the Washington,
D.C. area and in Baltimore (click here)
********************** SPECIAL EVENTS
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ROM/GYPSY - Sat. May 17, 2008 -ANNUAL Herdeljezi
Rom Music & Dance Festival, Washington,
DC. Held at Hearst Hall on the beautiful grounds of
the National Cathedral School, 3609 Woodley Rd., NW, Washington, DC 20016. Teachers/Performers include: Reyhan Tuzsuz, Amy Luna Manderino, Steve & Susan Kotansky,
N. Scott Robinson, Brad Sidwell, Eva Salina Primack, Ismail Lumanovski, Kujtim Ismailov, Seido Salifoski and Romski Boji, Grup Nazar
and special guest, Sani Rafati
of Voice Of Roma. Dance Classes
Include: Rajasthani Kalbeliya
dance, Spanish Flamenco with Manton, Turkish, Macedonian, Greek, Bulgarian,
Hungarian, Romanian & Translyvanian Romani,
Manton, Turkish dances! Evening Party!
Registration and detailed class information (including music
classes): www.wmfolklifecenter.org/register
. Full Day Passes available before
May 15!
ONE-DAY
WORKSHOP, POT-LUCK DINNER AND DANCE PARTY (the Diamonds) – SUN. May 25 (Memorial
Day Weekend) from 1:00 PM (Tentative) – 1:00 AM or later. At Chez
Diamonds in Silver Spring, MD.
Call or write for schedule and location. (301-871-8788, diamonddancecircle
[at] comcast.net)
************** WEEKLY/MONTHLY GROUPS **************
Alternate Sun. 4:00-6:30 New
Carrollton, MD - Alpine Dancers. Free open practice of
couples and trio dances from Austria
and Germany,
taped and live music. New dancers welcome. New
Carrollton Municipal
Center, 6016 Princess Garden Parkway, near Washington Beltway exit
20A. (301-577-3503)
Mon.
7:30-10:30 pm Bethesda, MD (the Diamonds) - Teaching for beginners (7:30-8:15) followed
by teaching/requests for everyone (8:15-10:00). Leland Community Center,
4301 Willow Lane, Bethesda. Sponsored
by the Montgomery
County Recreation Dept. -
registration is required for a number of sessions. You may register at the
door. (301-871-8788, diamonddancecircle [at]
comcast.net, www.diamonddancecircle.com
). SUN. May 25 – One-day event in Silver Spring, MD.
(see top of page).
Mon. 7:30-9:30 pm, Arlington, VA. - Bulgarian and Balkan folk dances for intermediate
and advanced dancers (Ivan Dimitrov),
Arlington, VA at Barcroft
Community House, 8th
St. South and South Buchanan St, Arlington. First time free. http://www.ivandance.com
Tues. 8:00-10:00 pm Arlington,
VA (the Stulbergs)
– Key School, Veitch St. and Wilson Blvd., Arlington,
VA. From 495, Route 66 East to Spout
Run Exit, right on Lee Highway, go 5-6 blocks and right on Veitch
St., then 1.5 blocks and right into parking lot. Also near Courthouse Road Metro station.
(703-527-8998, sstulberg
[at] earthlink.net).
Wed. 8:00 pm Columbia, MD - Kahler Hall, Beaverkill Rd. and
Harper's Farm Road: Route 29 North to Broken Land
Parkway towards Columbia Town Center, then left on Little Patuxent
Pkwy., where sign points to Harper's Choice; go right on Harper's Farm Road
(after General Warfield Pkwy), then right on Beaverkill
Road (after Elliots Oak Road) into the Community
Center complex. Kahler Hall is the building on the
left on the other side of the parking lot. (MAP:
www.columbiafolkdancers.org, 410-740-2309, 410-730-0039).
Wed. (Last Wednesday of Month), 9:00 PM (start of music),
DC. Balkan dance party with The Balkanics (wedding-
band style music: Bulgarian, Romani (Gypsy),
Macedonian, Serbian, Turkish). Wonderland Ballroom, 11th and Kenyon Sts. (202-232-5263). DC Metro Green Line at Columbia Heights. Must be
21 or over to enter but no cover charge. (http://balkanics.com).
Second and Fourth Wednesday, 7:30 to 10:00 pm: Swiss folk dancing to recorded music
on the wooden floor at the Swiss Embassy, 2900 Cathedral Ave. NW, DC. Sponsored
by the Swiss Folklore Group, admission free. (301-530-5643).
Thurs. 7:30 pm Glen Echo,
MD, the Glen Echo International Folk Dancers (Jamie Platt) - Teaching 7:30-9:00 pm, request dancing 9:00-10:45 pm. Church of the Redeemer, located at the intersection of Dunrobbin Dr. and MacArthur
Blvd., Glen Echo, MD, across the road from Glen Echo Park, one block from the
shopping center. Dancing is in the parish hall. (301-717-4641, dancingplanet [at]
erols.com, www.dancingplanetproductions.com/folkdance.htm) Co-sponsored by
Folklore Society of Greater Washington.
Thurs. 8:00-10:00 pm, Alexandria, VA
(Mount Vernon International Folk Dance Group). Beginners to advanced dancers. 8:00-8:30 – easy dances, followed
by requests and advanced instruction.
No partner necessary, good dance floor. Mt. Vernon Unitarian Church,
1909 Windmill Lane, Alexandria, VA.
(703-535-3333,
pdw [at]
patriciadaywilliams.com).
Thurs. 7:30 pm Laurel, MD, Italian Village
Dancing (Celest DiPietropaolo
and Marie DiCocco)-2nd and 4th
Thursdays, 7:30-9:30 pm, no
partners required. Dancing is in the parish
hall of St. Mary of the Mills Church Hall, Laurel, MD (8th St. becomes St. Mary's Place north of
Main St.).
Click here for directions. (Information: www.italianvillagedance.com/flyer.htm,
dance [at] italianvillagedance.com, 703-924-4942; markey_mary
[at] yahoo.com, 301-953-1984).
Thurs. 7:30 pm Chevy Chase, MD (Chevy
Chase International Folk Dancers, led by Roland Forbes), at the newly renovated
Chevy Chase Community Center, 5601 Connecticut Ave., NW, DC (corner of Connecticut
Ave. and McKinley St., two blocks south of Chevy Chase Circle). (301-424-8827,
301-438-0063)
Fri.
8:30 pm (teaching 8:30-9:15) Greenbelt,
MD - The Friday Night International Dance Group, http://home.comcast.net/~weiner.larry/FridayDance.htm .
At the Greenbelt Community Center, 15 Crescent Road, Greenbelt, MD
(click here for directions). (301-565-0539 or 410-715-9210; e-mail: weiner
[at] comcast.net) May 9 – Michael Gelman. May 16 – Ben Hole. May 23 –
No dance, Memorial Day Weekend. May 30 – John Robinson
Fri. 7:30 pm International Folk Dancers of Greenbelt (MD)
- dance classes led by Roland Forbes at the Greenbelt Youth Center, 99 Centerway, Greenbelt, MD (301-572-4215 or the Youth Center
at 301-397-2200).
Fri. 7:30 pm
Virginia Beach, VA - (beginner instruction 7:30-9:00, advanced
dances 9:00-10:30), theVirginia Beach
International Folkdance Club. Mt. Trashmore
YMCA, 4441 South Blvd,
Virginia Beach. (http://groups.hamptonroads.com/internationaldance/,
757-486-6098, 757- 851-8748; e-mail:
clebell [at] cox.net ).
First and Third Fridays, 8:00
pm Baltimore, MD - Dances from Bavaria
and Austria
with the Gebirgstrachten
Verein Immergrun. (P.O. Box
10972, Baltimore, MD 21234) at the Dorsey United Methodist Church, Odenton, MD
at the crossroads of Dorsey Rd & Coca Cola Dr, off of Rt.#100, near BWI.
(301-604-8557, 410-519-5712)
Last Sat. in Month,
5:30-9:00 pm,, Washington, D.C.
– Monthly Hungarian tanchaz (dance party) with
teaching by the Tisza
Ensemble and live music by Ardeleana and others. (Children’s tanchaz
from 5:00-5:30) Sponsored by the Hungarian Reformed Federation of America (HRFA)
at the HRFA Kossuth House, 2001
Massachusetts Ave, N.W., Washington,
D.C. (noemitoka [at] yahoo.com).
Sat. 7:30 pm
Baltimore, MD (Johns
Hopkins University
International Folk Dancing) - 7:30-8:30
teaching, 8:30-10:30 request dancing. First time free. Homewood
Friends Meeting building, 3107 N.
Charles St. (near the South end of Johns Hopkins
University). Go down the
outside stairs to the basement and knock.
(410-484-9392, ebogart [at] erols.com). May 17 – Elli
Sanders and Elliot Bogart. May 24 (Memorial Day Weekend) – Paul Kreiss. May 31 – Paul Kreiss
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