There is a contra dance weekend.
Finally an answer to your question of what exactly does syncopation mean?
Other events:
- 3/4 Thursday - Alachua County Emerging Leaders, UF Hilton, 6 pm
- 3/4 Thursday - Work Your Net, RBC Bank, 12 pm
- 3/5 Friday - Gainesville Chamber, Pancakes and Policy, Gator's Dockside, 7:30 am, $10-20
Happy Dancing,
Andy
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Schedule:
1. Thursday 3/04 - Israeli Dancing with Ariela
2. Friday 3/05 - International Folk Dancing
3. Sunday 3/07 - Contra Dance
Article: What is Syncopation
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- If you are going to do something tonight that you will be sorry for tomorrow, sleep late. ~ Henny Youngman
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1. Thursday 3/04 - Israeli Dancing with Ariela
B'nai Israel, 3830 NW 16 Blvd
7:00 - 9:30 : Israeli Dancing
Ariela, anotzer@yahoo.com
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2. Friday 3/05 - International Folk Dancing
4225 NW 34th St, Gainesville, Florida
8:00 - 9:00 : Beginners instruction
9:00 - 9:30 : Advanced instruction
9:30 - 11:00 : Dancing
$3 per person (to pay the rent of the dance room), $1 students
Dance to a different beat. No partners needed and all ages welcome. Member of the Florida Folk Dance Council. www.folkdance.org
Jack Seltzer, gainesvilleifd@gmail.com, 352-359-2903
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3. Saturday 3/07 - Contra Dance
Thelma Bolton Center
516 NE 2 Ave
4:00 - 7:00 : Lesson and dancing
$7, $5 under 21
Beginners lesson a half hour before the contra dance starts.
No partner needed. Please wear clean, soft-soled shoes to protect the floor.
Susie, 352-466-9150, Gainesville Oldtime Dance Society
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Article: What is Syncopation
Many have asked and finally an answer to the question exactly what is syncopation?
According to reference.com http://dictionary.reference.com/browse/syncopation
syn.co.pa.tion? [sing-kuh-pey-shuhn, sin-] - 1. Music. a shifting of the normal accent, usually by stressing the normally unaccented
beats.
There was no dance definition.
So syncopation in dancing is a change to the normal rhythm. One example is a yemenite step. Normally the way we do a yemenite step
is
Step 1, step 2, step 3, pause 4
As we saw with Shmulik when he was hopping around like a goat, he said a male syncopation was
Step 1, pause 2, step 3, step 4
Well in Shmulik's case it was more like jump 1, pause 2, ...
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