Tineke Van Geel is a renowned dance master and teacher of Armenian dances who has enriched the dance repertories of International Folk Dancers all over the world.
Tineke has been an active folk dance teacher since 1975. Since 1985 she has regularly traveled from her native Holland to Armenia to study folklore and work with several amateur dance groups. She has been enthusiastically received as a teacher throughout the U.S. and in Canada, Taiwan, Hong Kong, and Japan. Tineke's main focus is to present a "step by step" approach that teaches the skills necessary to master her dances, but she also emphasizes the joy of learning.
Tineke toured the U.S. and Canada and gave workshops from Sept. 27 to Oct. 26 at the following locations (and days of the week). These groups will be doing some of her dances:
Fri. Sept. 27 - Sun Sept. 29, DETROIT FOLKDANCE CAMP, Detroit, Michigan
Mon. Sept. 30, Fox Valley Folk Dancers, Appleton, WI
Tues. Oct. 1, Milwaukee, Wisconsin
Wed. Oct. 2, Madison, Wisconsin
Thurs. Oct. 3, Geneva, Illinois (West of Chicago): Fermi Lab Group.
Fri. Oct. 4, Hamilton, Ontario (West of Toronto) and Sat. Oct. 5 (all day) Toronto, Ontario
Fri. Oct. 11 - Sat. Oct. 12, VIRGINIA BEACH, VIRGINIA (http://www.vbifdc.net)
Mon. Oct. 14, Bethesa, Maryland (the Diamonds, http://www.dcfolkdance.com/dcifd.htm ).
Thurs. Oct. 17, Plainview, New York (near New York City)
Fri. Oct. 18, Princeton, New Jersey http://www.geocities.com/matt_zu_smith/index.html )
Sat. Oct. 19, Tenafly, New Jersey (the Palisades Folk Dancers).
Sun. Oct. 20, West Hartford, Connecticut, Always on Sunday, http://pages.cthome.net/ctdance/AOSHome.html
Mon. Oct. 21, Brooklyn, New York, the Brooklyn Heights International Folkdancers, http://www.brooklynheightsfolkdancers.org )
Tues. Oct. 22, Red
Bank, New Jersey, Monmouth Folk Dancers,
http://home.earthlink.net/~illuminage/MonmouthFolkDancers.htm
)
Wed. Oct. 23, Framingham, Mass. (West of Boston), (http://www.duxburysystems.com/ffd)
Fri. Oct. 25, Arlington Heights, Mass. (http://www.facone.org/fdrb/internat.html, listing of the Folk Arts Center of New England)
Sat. Oct. 26, Boston, Mass. (http://www.facone.org/fdrb/internat.html,
listing of the Folk Arts Center of New England)
This special Web page is presented as a service to the International Folk Dance communities and is part of a website of folk dances in the Washington, D.C. area, maintained by Elliot and Karen Bogart ( http://www.dcfolkdance.com , <ebogart@erols.com>. )