upcoming dance workshop

[Steve Weintraub <dancinsteve...>]

Shana Tovah and Gut Yontif to everybody.

Just wanted to let you know about an upcoming workshop I'll be doing at 
Folklore Village, near Madison Wisconsin on Sept 27-29.

Steve Weintraub is a nationally recognized authority on authentic Eastern 
European dance and has a special gift for sharing the style, flavor, steps and 
figures of the Klezmer tradition.  Born on Governor's Island and Bar Mitzvahed 
in the Bronx, Steve received his dance training in Manhattan with Alvin Ailey 
and Erick Hawkins.

This year Steve will take us back to turn of the century New York where Jewish 
greenhorns from all over eastern Europe were mixing with their more assimilated 
Lantsmen, and tunes from the old country were mixing with music from the 
flourishing Yiddish Theater.  Workshops and culture sessions will lead up to a 
recreation of a wedding from New York's Lower East Side circa 1908.

Participants will learn the Philadelphia Sher (square dance),the couples' 
Bulgar, Steve's grandparent's Czardas (Hungarian couple dance), Litvak style 
dancing, Freylach, Honga and the original Flashtanz (bottle dance).

Yid Vicious, Wisconsin's premier Klezmer ensemble, is not especially vicious, 
but they do play a mean freylekh.  Band members Daithi Wolfe (fiddle), Mike 
Pollay (guitar), Jon Pollack (percussion), Kia Karlen (French horn), Greg Smith 
(clarinet) and Melissa Reiser (sax) fuse a strong traditional brand of Klezmer 
with their individual music backgrounds, keeping in tradition with Klezmer's 
evolving history.  Yid Vicious will provide the music for dances and lead music 
workshops.

Contact Folklore Village  at www.folklorevillage.org or 

608-924-4000



I did a similiar workshop with them 2 years ago, and it was amazing fun!



-Steve