We are having Israeli Partner Dancing (IPD) this this Monday December 27. Everyone welcome. It is my birthday week, so help me celebrate a few days early. Tasty treats and your presence are the only gifts accepted.
Downtown Gainesville has a free, nice New Years Eve event, with a live band.
Randy and Annette have been tearing it up with English on Thursday nights. Treat yourself and join them this week. They are dancing December 30.
Standing ovation for Full Circle Band's outstanding performance at last weekend's Contra Dance.
Winter Solstice Luna Eclipse from Gainesville, the whole thing in time lapse video
Worth watching to the end, the Porcelain Unicorn
Happy Dancing,
Andy
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Schedule: confirm all programs before going
1. Monday 12/27 - Israeli Partner Dancing
2. Tuesday 12/28? - Line Dancing
3. Wednesday 12/29 - Israeli Dancing at Kol Simcha
4. Thursday 12/30 - English Country Dance
5. Friday 12/31? - International Folk Dancing
Article: English and Contra Dancing a Fortunately Acquired Taste
Ongoing:
Clogging in Gainesville - on Sunday afternoons. www.FirstKlassKloggers.com
Contra Dancing in Melrose - first and third Wednesdays of the month at Shake Rag Art and Culture Center. Susie Rudder calling. Live music. $5. Corky Culver, sisorbit@windstream.net
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Quotes:
- When the end of the world approaches, I want to be in Kentucky. They are 25 years behind. ~ Mark Twain
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1. Monday 12/27 - New Introduction to Israeli Partner Dancing
Congregation B'nai Israel, 3830 NW 16 Blvd, Gainesville, FL
7:00 - 8:00 : For Beginners
8:00 - 9:00 : For More Experienced Dancers
Starts exactly on time. Do not be late.
$5 per evening, or $20 in advance for the entire series. Ages 22 and under free. Other students $2. If you have financial difficulties, you can come for free.
Contact Andrew, publish@israelipartnerdancing.com, 352-327-3672
On Monday nights, beginning November 22 to December 27, for, a minimum of 4 and up to 6 nights.
Everyone welcome. No experience and no partner needed.
Treat yourself to some fun doing Israeli Partner Dances. You deserve it.
The first hour is for beginner's. You do not need to know how to dance. You will learn. Everyone can learn Israeli Partner Dancing.
Easy, exuberant, great music, great friends, come out for a great time.
On Monday nights, beginning November 22 to December 27, for, a minimum of 4 and up to 6 nights.
We rotate partners and do dances more than once, so everyone gets to do every dance, everyone gets to dance the same amount and everyone gets to dance with everyone else. If you come with your spouse and you do not want to rotate, you do not have to. Rotating is your option.
Teaching is based on my book partner social dance skills for ballroom, latin, salsa, tango, swing in Partnership Dancing (tm).
Rather than memorizing choreography, the women will learn the skill of how to follow every Israeli Partner Dance without learning the steps. This is a good skill to have and is applicable to all social dances, particularly choreographed dances. You will be able to follow other folk dances, including things like Contra Dancing, without having to worry about the patterns.
The men will learn how to make every dance a pleasure by communicating via their body language. You will learn how to get the woman to do what you want by manipulating space, without wrestling the woman around.
There is no gender bias. You can dance which ever part you want.
We will be videoing some of the teaching.
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2. Tuesday 12/28? - Line Dancing with Sandi Larkins
Eagles Club, 4562 NW 13th Street
6:00 - 8:15 - Line dancing
$5
Sandi Larkins, ridesthewind@gmail.com
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3. Wednesday 12/29 - Israeli Dancing at Kol Simcha
Kol Simcha, 14007 NW 44 Ave Gainesville, FL
6:30-8:30 : Teaching and Israeli dancing
With Joseph Simpkins
352-331-3191
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4. Thursday 12/30 - English Country Dance
601 S Main Street
7:00 - 9:30
$5
Annette Merritt, flamerritt@hotmail.com
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5. Friday 12/31? - International Folk Dancing
Unitarian Universalist Fellowship, 4225 NW 34 Street
8:00 - 11:00
$3, $1 students
Jack Seltzer, 352-359-2903 gainesvilleifd@gmail.com, www.gifd.org
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One night a few years ago, I went out looking for a Swing dance
and accidentally ended up in the wrong place, at Tara Bolker's
They needed six people and I was the sixth, so maybe there are
no accidents and I was where the universe needed me to be.
The people were pleasant and Tara is a pro, I enjoyed the evening,
but English Country Dancing was not interesting enough for me. I
felt the same way about Contra Dancing.
That was no reflection on English or Contra, only on my own poor palate.
I was used to wildly, careening out-of-control in Swing and Israeli dancing,
and English seemed too sedate. While there is plenty of wild, out-of-control
careening in Contra, the dancing seemed too easy.
Times have changed.
Somewhere along the line, and I do not know how it happened, I started
to appreciate the English and Contra music and dancing.
Sure, English and Contra dancing are easy and anyone can dance their
very first time, which is one of the best featurse of this type of dancing,
but for those that want, like any dancing, you can constantly challenge
yourself to add your own style and keep improving.
Last Saturday night's Contra dance was the best I have been to.
Full Circle Band was great beyond words. You have to hear them.
Randy and Annette have turned English Country Dancing into a treasure
on Thursday nights.
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