Past Folk Balls: 2017

Post-Festival Follow Up

Israeli Workshop

Links to videos of the dances we learned are as follow:

Debka Dor - chor. Moshiko Halevy, 1986

teach: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XIfMyFt11J8

dance: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7grpRVP-130

Rakdu/Rokdim Yechefim - chor. Shmulik Gov-Ari, 1993

teach & dance: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FFYzTYB0hTo

Debka Medabeket - chor. Shmulik Gov-Ari, 1989

teach & dance: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g0oZe92Cv2I

Feature Teachers:

Sonia Dion & Cristian Florescu

Schedule

Friday, January 19th

Folk

7:30 PM to Midnight

Memorial Union Great Hall

• Yid Vicious
• Veseliyka
• Reptile Palace Orchestra

Táncház

7:30 PM to 10 PM

Class of '24 Reception Room (next to Great Hall)

• Szaszka, Hungarian Táncház Band

Contra

7:30 PM to 11 PM

Red Gym - On Wisconsin Room

• Music by “A Rare Privilege” (Amy McFarland, piano & Maria Terres, fiddle)
• Calling by Roger Diggle

Saturday, January 20, 2018

Memorial Union

10am – Noon Great Hall — Romanian Folkdance — Sonia & Cristian

10am – Noon Tripp Commons — Clogging — Sara Zajicek

Noon – 1pm Old Madison Room — Brown Bag Lunch with Colleen Bertsch

1 – 3pm Great Hall — Celtic Sampler — Heidi Hakseth, Todd McCall, Nancy McClements, Chuck Snowdon, Joanna Thompson

1 – 3pm Tripp Commons — Intermediate/Advanced Balkan — Dan Talmo

1 – 3pm Old Madison Room — Eastern European Singing — Natalie Nowytski

3 – 5pm Great Hall — Romanian Folkdance — Sonia & Cristian

3 – 5pm Tripp Commons — Israeli Folkdance — Melissa Marver

Folk Ball

Memorial Union Great Hall

7:00 PM to 'round Midnight

• Intemperance Collective
• Black Bear Combo (half set)
• Orchestar Bez Ime
• Sloboda
• Black Bear Combo (half set)

Sunday, Jan. 21

10am – 12:30pm Old Madison Room — Review

Folk Ball Buffet Dinner

Serving at 5:00 Saturday in the State Room (4th Floor East)

$20 per person

Reserve with Michael 608-469-2543 / mk@mailbag.com or at festival Info Table in Great Hall

MENU:

Spinach, strawberry, shaved red onion, sesame poppy seed dressing

Vegetables, dips, spreads, pita bread

Chicken tikka masala, Sake salmon, Jerk tofu

Basmati rice, Stir-fried vegetables

Includes dinner rolls and coffee station

The Money

Folk Ball is funded solely by your GENEROUS DONATIONS. Come and go as you please, but do bring CASH, bring your CHECKBOOK, bring your FRIENDS! Make a single full-weekend contribution at Info Table in Varsity Hall (checks to "Madison Folk Dance Club") or donate at each event you attend, but DO YOUR PART to keep Folk Ball an open, free-flowing celebration. THANKS!

SUGGESTED DONATIONS: Workshop $15, Party $30, Weekend $100

Questions

Michael 608-241-3655 / mk@mailbag.com