In the Point Reyes class, we'll be finishing up the last two classes of this session by reviewing and dancing Esmer (from Turkey), plus two lovely one-pattern dances from Greece: Mavramatia and Zagarisios. Mavramatia means "dark eyes", and is from Grecian Thrace - an interesting contrast to Targovskata.
Carol Friedman has been teaching international folk dance, ballroom dance, and line dancing to people of all ages since 2000, with ongoing classes in Petaluma and College of Marin as well as workshops for Greenwood School in Mill Valley, Marin Children's Chorus, Dance Palace Camp, the San Francisco Free Folk Festival, Berkeley Festival of the Oaks, and at parties and events.
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Saturday, March 14, 2009
In Petaluma, we'll continue to learn Gjusevska Rucenica in preparation for dancing it at the March 28 Balkan Party in San Rafael. The name means "little handerkerchief dance from Gjusevo." Yves Moreau learned the dance in Bulgaria, and introduced it to the U.S. in the late 1960's. The village of Gjusevo is in a high mountain region near the Yugoslav border, within the Sop ethnographic region. The rhythm is 7/16 (quick-quick-slow), and the styling is firm, sharp, and upright.
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