Instructors

Fabien Goulay

Fabien is a native of Brittany (France) and has been dancing and teaching Breton and French dancing for over 20 years. In France he was an active member of Spered ar Vro, a community based group promoting music and dance from Brittany and central France. He then joined the Cercle Celtic of Bordeaux and later the Cercle d’Outre Illes with which he has performed at numerous festivals such as the Inter-Celtic Festival of Lorient and the World Folk Festival in Saint Malo. As part of these dance groups he has taken multiple dance master classes with scholars in French folk dance traditions.

Fabien moved to the US in 2004 where he has been part of Jubilee American Dance Theater and Clogging Express. He has performed clogging, Cajun two step, squares, and other American folk dances at several festivals in the San Francisco bay area, including the San Francisco Ethnic Dance Festival in 2009 and 2011 and the Alameda dance Festival.

Fabien has also been playing the accordion for over 22 years, and since moving to West Virginia in 2011, has been playing with Pardon My French. His repertoire focuses on music from Britany and central France.

Lisa Tamres -

Lisa has been dancing and teaching traditional dances of America for over 30 years, and Balfolk for 14 years. She performed with the Coal Country Cloggers for 30 years. Lisa has directed and performed with the Steel Town Stompers Lindy Hop Troupe from 2009 through 2015. She has been teaching various forms of traditional dances including Lindy Hop, Balboa, Blues, Balfolk, Contra Dance, and Appalachian Clogging since 1989 at both local classes and some national events.

Leslie Barr -

Leslie Barr discovered French traditional music in the 1980s and has been traveling to France to learn and play ever since. Her focus has been the fiddle styles of the Massif Central, which includes three and two time bourreés, schottishes, mazurkas, valses, and polkas. Lately she has been exploring the music of other regions as well, particularly Gascogne, Poitou, Bretagne and the Alps. She has studied with several French master musicians, and has played for bals here and in France. At home in Washington D.C., Leslie is an elementary school music teacher. She also runs the Friday Night Contra Dancers' Dance Musicians Workshop.

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