Date: Sun, 6 Mar 2005 
Subject: Dances of March 5, 2005
From: Cris 
Hello everyone,

Dances from March 5, 2005
Salvation Army Gymnasium, 7-10pm

Bearing little if any resemblance to the order danced.  I'm sure I 
missed a few too. I arrived without a notepad.

Almost every dance in this first group was taught, at least briefly.
1.  Vranjanka (Serbia)
2.  Robin Ddiog (Wales)
3.  An dro Retourne (Brittany)
4.  Jiana (Romania)
5.  Rumelaj (Gypsy) -- special thanks to Missy for providing great
        belly-dance styling tips
6.  Tamzara (Armenia)
7.  Ali Pasa (Turkey)
8.  Mayim (Israel) -- please, please, PLEASE let it rain in Montana
9.  Bojarka / Biserka (Serbia)
10. Srbijanka (Serbia)
11. Juice of Barley (English Country)
12. Ma Navu (Israel)
13. Well Hall (English Country)
14. Erev Ba (Israel) -- both versions
15. Ada's Kujawiak #1 (Poland)

We pulled out the following dances that were featured last weekend at 
Steam & Stomp:
16. Podrimsko Oro (Albania) -- taught at S&S by Susan and Richard, this 
        dance has separate men's and women's lines.
	We remembered it remarkably well!  Danced twice.
17. Cobankat (Albania?) -- from the same workshop as Podrimsko Oro, 
        this was taught just before lunch on Sunday at S&S.
        Beautiful music, but nobody in the group remembered any of it.
        So, to the syllabus for next week!
18. At Adama (Israel) -- taught at S&S by Eva.  We had a lot of holes 
        in our collective memory.
	Furrowed brows. "Something goes here... but what?"
        Once we finally remembered the "pigeon, duck, pigeon" stamps,
        we went back and tried again, though holes remain.
19. Duke of Kent's Waltz (England) -- taught by Mitchell at S&S, this 
        is an old favorite that we were inspired to revive.

Marvin brought us a rather sophisticated dance from his Whitehall trip.
20. Bees of Maggieknockater (Scotland)
        Marvin took the time to run an intensive, well-executed intro
        to this very impressive Scottish Country dance.
        Unfortunately, we didn't have the music!  But in silence, four
        couples executed a good first-time run through.
	This will be fun to work on when we get the music together.
	Think Fife Ness meets Mairi's Wedding, turned inside out and with 
        nobody sitting out.

21. Heya Heya (Modern Israeli, couples version) - We've had several
        requests for a refresher on this one, but ran out of time this
        week.  We'll plan a refresher on March 12.
22. Birchot Havdalah (Modern Israeli)

16 dancers:              
Connie             
Cris              
Deanna             
Don                
Ed                 
Jackie Z           
Joe                
Lauren             
Lita               
Marvin             
Missy              
Rose
Russ               
Sam                
Ted
Welcome Ronda (Ronda doesn't have an h in her name) to her first
International Folk Dance.  Ronda works with Joe at Marion school.
((Plus a guest appearance on Duke of Kent by Jazzmine (Jazzmin is spelled
with 2 z's, and no s), a student at Marion whose aunt was cleaning the
building.))

Next dance: Saturday March 12, at the Salvation Army Gym.