February 2020 Dance Theme was that all dances in Sets 100 and 500 for 2/18 and for Set 100 on 2/25 used the common musical instrument known as the Human Voice - i.e. all songs played for theme dances were vocals!
March 11, 2022 - Tribute and Life Celebration for Atanas Kolarovski(in process)
March 11 & March 18 2022 - Atanas Kolarovski Theme + Mystery Dance Program Theme
In honor of International Women's Month (March), most March Mystery Theme dances were introduced to the IFD community by women. The remaining songs/dances were performed by women musicians.
It appears that we had a winner on March 18th
Dierdre Rees (Belmont, MA) says that she said a "WILD GUESS" of WOMEN on 3/18, but did not put her guess in CHAT.
So Dierdre won the marvelous prize this time around and will tell you about it when she receives it.
April 8 & 15, 2022 - Dance Program Themes
For Set 400 of the VDR dance program for April 8th Barbara Merson's Theme was a Tribute to and Celebration for Moshe Eskayo who choreographed many dances that became popular in International Folk Dance Circles.
Moshe moved back to Israel in 2020 and passed away on April 5th at the age of 90.
The Mystery Dance Program Theme for Set 100 from the April 8th dance program continued for Set 100 for April 15th.
The Mystery Theme was the percussive elements of Snaps, Claps and Slaps!
Martha Awdziewicz (San Diego, CA) proposed that most of the dances in Set 100 had claps and/or snaps.
Martha's missing component was slaps, but that's close enough for folk.
Martha guessed 2/3 of the Dance Program Theme from April 8th and 15th so she and her dancing cat Alfred will get a 2/3 prize.
So Martha and Alfred won the marvelous prize this time around and will tell you about it when they receive it.
June 10, 2022 - Dance Program Theme
For Set 100 of some VDR dance programs in May Earlier in May Set 100 there was a theme where there were several sets of dances shared the same first letter. There was no rhyme or reason to this pattern - it was just a theme.
So what are we honoring in the June 10th Set 100 theme?
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Upcoming VDR & Other Dance Events - Notice - Save These Dates
Upcoming VDR & Other Dance Events - Notice - Save These Dates
June 10 (Fri) - Weekly Dance Party in the VDR - 7:30pm - to 11:00pm-ish CDT + Post-Dance Discussion
Hybrid Dance - Online and In Person
Guest Hosts: Nairy Digris, Tom Ott, Barbara Merson
43rd Annual Door County Folk Festival (Online/Virtual)
We've had to postpone the In-Person aspect of the 2022 DCFF as in-person registration was not sufficient for the economics of an on-site, in-person event
We believe that DCFF was the first weekend dance workshop to go online at the beginning of the pandemic (2020) and we've continued the tradition by rapidly re-engineering this year's virtual event for Zoom
The Door County Folk Festival will again be a Free Event, however we really encourage you to make very generous donations to the Festival in order to help us offset the significant costs we encounter in production.
We thank those folks who have already made donations to DCFF in advance.
DCFF in-person at the Color Club will be open to anyone able to come to the Chicago Area
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