TEACHER RESOURCES
January 31 - February 2, 2025
TEACHER RESOURCES
January 31 - February 2, 2025
This page will be updated throughout Winter Weekend. Thanks for checking it out.
CLASS AND EVENT RESOURCES
Teachers Music (See below bio for Lee's) (Chris will be providing us links to where you can get the music)
Dance Notes (Syllabus will be released post Winter Weekend)
Richard Powers' Presentations
Stories about the Foxtrot that may surprise you
The Stress Response, and De-stressing with Dance
Dancing in the 70's - LA - Bibliography
Cooking with Aaron and Ahmet - Shopping and Recipies
INDIVIDUAL ARTIST INFORMATION
Some of the below links will redirect you to a different page; that's ok 😀.
Maurice Perez
You can email Maurice at maurice.perez22gmail.com for and additional info on Dances
You can download all of the Music Maurice uses at this link
To Dance with Maurice in Montréal
-Every Wednesday, Israeli Dance at the YM_YWHA, from 6:00 to 10:00 pm
-Every Thursday, International Dance at CELO-Côte-des-Neiges, from 6:00 to 9:15pm
Maurice on Facebook
Personal page: Maurice Peretz
1 st Group: YES.OUI.KEN.DANCE כף לרקוד-
2nd Group: DANCE WITH/DANSEZ AVEC MAURICE PERETZ
My Youtube channel
Youtube.com/@MauricePeretz, over 300 Videos
Workshops and Classes
THE HOUSTON INTERNATIONAL FOLK DANCERS, DANCE WORKSHOP with Maurice
February 15, 2025, an International Dance Workshop (Balkan, Rom, Sephardic, Israel)
INFO/LINK; https://www.folkdancers.org/
*On ZOOM, with Maurice, every Sunday evening with LAGUNA INTERNATIONAL DANCERS
Hosted by Greg SOLLOWAY, at 6:00 pm (PT) to join the Zoom meeting:
Lee Otterholt
For music of the dances Lee teachers at Winter Weeken, and for general questions, you can email him at leeotterholt@yahoo.com
Lee’s website is: www.Leeotterholt.com
Laguna Folk Dance Festival, Friday Feb. 28 to Sunday March 2 2025 (and Beach Dancing on Monday March 3) with Master Teachers Tineke and Maurits van Geel. Check it out at Laguna International Dancers
You can find information about folk dance tours Lee is leading in 2025 on www.Leeotterholt.com or on www.jimgold.com, or you can find information about each tour here, or email leeotterholt@yahoo.com or jimgold@jimgold.com.
Albania 2025 - May 21 - June 2, 2024 - Click for info
Norway, Denmark and Sweden 2025 - June 10- 23, 2025 - Click for info
Greece 2025 - October 4-17, 2025 - Click for info
Turkey 2025 - October 17-31, 2025 - Click for info
Lee will also be doing a 4-week-long teaching tour of Australia and New Zealand in September 2025. His schedule is:
NEW ZEALAND
Christchurch, NZ Sept. 5-7
Auckland/Hamilton, NZ Sept 8
AUSTRALIA
Cairns, AUS Sept. 10
Townsville, AUS Sept. 12-13
Syndney, AUS Sept. 15-18
Canberra, AUS Sept. 20-23
Adelaide, AUS Sept. 25-28
Chris Dart
You can email Chris at Obon.OregonBuddhistTemple@gmail.com
The Oregon Buddhist Temple Website is https://www.oregonbuddhisttemple.com/obon-festival
Check out the August 2, 2025 Obon Festival - terrific food and bon odori at 7pm.
General information about Obon, practice, years dancing, with. videos
https://www.oregonbuddhisttemple.com/bon-odori
https://www.oregonbuddhisttemple.com/obon-dance
Sunday Bon Odori (usually last Sunday) and practices - in person or zoom. Email Chris to Join the "Japanese Stuff" email list (private-not shared) for dates/times.
Chris will be a Guest Artist at the NFO Conference
https://nfo-usa.com/annual-nfo-conference-2025/
Portland Japanese Garden - Bon Odori Festival
August 23, 2025 at 10:30 AM
https://japanesegarden.org/events/bon-odori-summer-festival-2024/
Ahmet Lüleci
You can email Ahmet at ahmet.luleci@gmail.com
Ahmet's shopping list for his cooking class can be found here
Information about Ahmet's Tours
Information about WorldCamp Folk Dance Camp
-- Our Wonderful Band --
Thank you for supporting Folk Dancing and Stockton Folk Dance Camp