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AIFD Newsletter
April 14, 2017
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 This Friday at dancing:
April Birthdays and Anniversaries.
Holly DJs, David assists. |
  Do you or a fellow dancer have a birthday or anniversary in April? Come to folk dancing to celebrate with song, dance, and cake! Our DJ for this lively evening will be Holly Plotner. Holly will be assisted by David Liang. |
 Teaching: This week, Michel Breger will present the final teaching session of his three dances from Israel and Germany/Austria. The featured teaching will be our old favorite Zillertaler Landler, slightly changed to the elegant and authentic way it is done in the Zillertal and all over Austria. Come at 7 to enjoy these dances. |
Friday, April 14, 7-9:45 pm.
The admission fee is $5 for those 18 and older.
There is no fee for those under 18,
but they must be supervised by a designated person 18 or older.
Hancock Rec Center (HRC)
AIFD is organized exclusively for educational purposes, including the promotion and teaching of traditional folk dance, music and crafts native to a variety of countries.
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Friday, April 21: Women Singing.
Join us for a lively evening of folk dancing as we welcome Women Singing (Anne Alexander, Dee McCandless, Kathleen McDonagh, Holly Plotner, and Joane Rylander) to AIFD to perform a set of fantastic folk songs!
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Friday, May 12: Elections and May Birthdays.
Come to folk dancing to vote for the 2017-18 AIFD Board! We’ll also celebrate our fellow dancers who have a birthday or anniversary in May.
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Friday, May 19: No Dancing - HRC closed.
Hancock Rec Center will be closed for maintenance.
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 Dancing Makes You Smarter, Longer.
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Most recently we've heard of another benefit: Frequent dancing apparently makes us smarter..."
If you haven't read it yet, check out this fun essay by Richard Powers. |
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Link of the week:
Accent: music and dance of the Georgia Sea Islands (1962)
- What was on TV 55 years ago.
Other dance links
AIFD:(Contact & Board page)
Wednesdays, 7:30 - 9:45 pm, Free:
1st Wed: Singing at Stephanie’s house;
2nd Wed: Music Jam, HRC;
4th Wed: Music jam or dance review, HRC;
Last/5th Wed: Dance - often with live music, HRC;
No partners necessary for dance. |
Mondays, 7-9:45, HRC, backroom, free.
No partner necessary, we rotate often. |
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Upcoming "Other Dance" features
A list of non-AIFD events you may be interested in:
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Sunday, April 30: Women Singing.
 Women Singing (Anne Alexander, Dee McCandless, Kathleen McDonagh, Holly Plotner, and Joane Rylander) will be performing at 1:15 and 2:30 PM at Central Market as part of the Texas Community Music Festival. Come say hi, enjoy the music, and perhaps even dance a little!
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 Have something you'd like to see in the AIFD newsletter? Do you have an upcoming event you'd like to announce, a poem you'd like to share, a dance experience you think other dancers would enjoy? Feel free to submit it to the AIFD newsletter and we'll see if we can fit it in.
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