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AIFD Newsletter
August 8th, 2015
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Saturday, September 26th: Farewell to Saturday!!
AIFD's last Saturday at Hancock Recreation Center. We'll have live music and turn it into a great celebration.
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Friday, October 2nd: Welcome to Friday!!
Our first Friday at Hancock Recreation Center. We will make it an Open House, so invite all of your friends! |
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This week at dancing
Polar Exposure
and Birthday / Anniversary
Celebration!
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 | Chill out at the height of summer as we take to high and mighty latitudes, exploring the dances from our planet’s polar regions! We’ll also be celebrating August birthdays and anniversaries. Do you or a fellow folk dancer have a birthday or anniversary in August? Come out and enjoy some cake! Madeline Brock will be our DJ for this lively evening of dancing, assisted by Kathleen McDonagh.
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 Teaching: We continue Summer School - By Popular Demand! Beginning at 7:30, Madeline Brock will continue leading us through our top 100 favorite dances. Later, Iola Hallock will review The Palindrome and The Battle Of Waterloo, taught at AIFD last week and introduced to us by John and Aylwen Gardiner-Garden at IFCC's recent Regency dance workshop. |
Saturday, August 8th
7:30-10:45 pm
$5 at the door 17 & older. 16 & under free.
Children must be accompanied by an adult.
Hancock Rec Center (HRC)
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Saturday, August 22nd: Live Music with La Strada!!
 Enjoy a fun evening of dancing to the lively tunes of our returning champions, La Strada! Here is a snippet of the group performing at one of the farmers' markets.
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Saturday, September 12th: September Birthday & Anniversary Celebration!!
Do you have a September birthday or anniversary? Do you know a fellow folk dancer who does? Come to folk dancing to be serenaded and enjoy some delicious cake!
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The waltz was the twerking of the 1800s
- Music weird
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Music Weird previously wrote about the doomed effort to revive the waltz among teenagers in the 1950s. Back then, the waltz seemed genteel and old fashioned in comparison to rock and roll, but it wasn't always that way. In fact, the waltz was once the "dirty dancing" of the 1800s, like twerking is today. (read more ... )
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