Scandinavian Dance Classes Beginning and advanced classes, dances, workshops, and camps “Hot Polskas” Swedish concert this Friday, April 20, with fabulous guest and local fiddlers Mats Andersson, Göran Olsson, Olga Prokunina, and Ryan and Ken Koons. They will play and sing music mostly from Jämtland, Sweden. Information: 301-814-2140. At 6807 WESTMORELAND AVE, TAKOMA PARK, MD 20912. Host phone 301-270-4925. The Spring Springar Spree will be on Thursday to Sunday, April 26-29. See information below. Beginning and Advanced Scandinavian Dance Classes We are combining the classes. Everybody is welcome; we will teach beginners and advanced dancers their own dances. Most Tuesdays 7:30 - 9:30 pm at NIH in Bethesda, MD. --April 3 and 10; --May 1, (not 8), 15, 22, 29;  --The future schedule will be updated. Beginners learn Hambo, Schottish, Waltz, Polka, and other couple turning dances, with a focus on Hambo. Some Hambo is done every time. Intermediate dancers learn Rørospols, Snoa, Mazurka, and Zwiefacher. Advanced dancers learn dances from Klarälvsdalen, Bingsjö, Boda, Orsa, Föllinge, Viksta, Kall, Telemark, and Valdres, as well as Busserull, Springleik, Gothenberg Mazurka, Finnskogspols, Nigpolska, Gammalvänster, and your requests (mostly Swedish dances and some Norwegian dances). Singles, couples, beginners, intermediate, and advanced dancers welcome. Come when you can; classes are all year. Air-condtioned!  Sometimes with live music. $5. Lovely raised wooden dance floor! No advance registration required; just show up. Contact Lisa Brooks at lisa@HamboDC.org, 301-654-7667 or 240-731-1935. Site updated 4/19/12. Scandia DC dances: usually on the third Saturday of non-summer months in Greenbelt, MD. 7 pm class, 8-10 pm dancing. Next on April 21 (teaching Gammalvänster), and May 19 (teaching Busserull). Scandia DC and Scandinavian dancing in this area. Norwegian dancing: Info: pi@xecu.net, 301-371-4312. Norwegian dancing in this area.  SPRING  SPRINGAR  SPREE in Takoma Park, MD (by Washington, DC) April 26-29, 2012 You can attend all or part of the Spring Springar Spree, from the Thursday evening concert by our VIP Norwegian staff through Sunday afternoon.  Featuring TELESPRINGAR, the springar from Telemark—it looks a little like swing but feels different, there’s a delightful couple-turn, and the basic leads are easy!  Dance and traditional singing (kveding) classes taught by "national treasure" master dancer/singer from Telemark and his partner.  Plus an extra hour on men’s step variants by a US expert during the singing class.  Hardanger-fiddle (hardingfele) classes taught by a well-regarded teacher and fiddle craftsman, who's the reigning Norwegian Hardanger-fiddler champion! For those interested in traditional costumes, this year we also welcome an expert seamstress from the Carolina Sons of Norway, who will share her costume photos, help folks choose/make/alter/clean costume pieces and jewelry, sell costume kits/material/jewelry, etc.  She will lead costume-making workshops on Friday and Saturday (adv reg req’d), and can take orders to make costumes for a reasonable price.  Spree events include Thursday night concert followed by a little dancing, Friday daytime costume workshop and evening dance party, Saturday workshops & dance party, Sunday workshops & afternoon potluck/dance party.  All-live Hardanger fiddle music by our Norwegian guest champion and our beloved local fiddler (foremost in US!).  Dance parties will have a good variety of Springars and Gammaldans, two separate fiddler jam/practice spaces, and the famous cozy atmosphere of our monthly Norwegian-style potluck house parties.  Beginners/listeners/watchers will be welcomed, as always.  No need to bring a dance partner—we mix—but please bring clean shoes for dancing. Spare beds available. Comfortable price—don’t let your budget keep you away.   Details:  http://MAND.fanitull.org.  Questions:  Jenny Foster, pi~at~xecu~dot~net or 301~371~4312 (8am-11pm) Sunday afternoon waltzes at the Glen Echo Spanish Ballroom: generally on the first and third Sundays of each month (Apr 1, 15, May 6, 20, June 17, July 1, 15.). Waltz information. Activities in Glen Echo Park. Wonderful Scandinavian dance workshops and camps: Vermont Ski-Dance weekend with Numedal springar and gangar music and dance.  --Fairlee, Vermont, January 26-29, 2012. Boulder Spring Scandinavian Workshop --Boulder, Colorado, March 16-18, 2012, with Leif and Margareta Virtanen and fiddlers. You can also stay for the party on Sunday evening and the dance class on Monday, March 19. Springdans Northwest --Seabeck, Washington, April 20-23, 2012.  Telespringar.  Scandia Camp Mendocino --Mendocino, California, June 9-16, 2012.  Western Dalarna and Telespringar.  Nordic Fiddles and Feet (NFF) -- July 1-8, 2012 at Ogontz Camp in New Hampshire. (With minicamp July 1-3) Hardanger Fiddle Association of America (HFAA) --July 19-22, 2012, at Folklore Village near Dodgeville, Wisconsin. World Village Music and Dance camp (International with Scandi) --Timber Ridge Camp (near the old Buffalo Gap Camp in West Virginia), Sept 2-5, 2011. NIH Fitness and Dance Center, Building T-39, Bethesda, MD, at the south-central part of the NIH campus. See a map of NIH with T39 marked at the center bottom, the small blue horizontal rectangle just below building 28 and northwest of building 41. The class is in the front or back room (reach the back room by going past the dance floor on your left to a closed door). Bring picture ID if you drive or walk onto NIH. From DC and other points south of NIH: take Wisconsin Av. north. Past South Drive you need to make a U-turn to be going south on Wisconsin (as if coming from north of NIH). From north of NIH: from the I-495 beltway, take the exit in Bethesda to south 355 / Rockville Pike / Wisconsin Av. From the north side of NIH, do NOT turn right into the commercial vehicle inspection or the staff entrances. Keep going south past South Drive, looking for the visitor entrance. This is near the south side of NIH, not the north side. Past (south of) South Dr., turn right into NIH at the NEW NIH Gateway Drive, the visitor entrance. Park there (no charge after 7 pm, no car inspection) and walk to T39, or have the car inspected and drive to T39. From Gateway Dr.: Drive through security and you will come out on Center Drive. Turn right onto Center Drive and take the quick third left (not into either of the lefts into parking) across from Natcher (Building 45), onto Medlars Drive. Take the first right fork onto (again) Medlars Drive, and the next right through paired stop signs. At the end of that short block the NIH Fitness and Dance Center, Building T39, is straight in front of you. Turn left and park, or go past T39 and park on the left. Park in NIH employee permit parking (no permits needed after 7 pm, on weekends, or on holidays). The door is up the stairs on the south side of the building, not up the stairs by the parking lot past the building. From the Medical Center Metro stop, 12 minute walk: (NEW directions): Exit the Metro station, walk straight forward, and go through visitor inspection. Before you exit the building, take the elevator up a level. Take the path to the left, behind the building you were just in. Cross the first sharp right path and take the next path to the right, which will go past the child-care center (on your left) and building 45 (on your right). Walk past building 45, turn right to the entrance of building 45, and walk left down the entrance driveway for bldg. 45 away from the building. Cross Center Drive and walk on the sidewalk on the right side (but do not turn right on Center Drive), as the sidewalk curves to the right. Walk past both of the double pairs of stop signs. Just across the street in front of you is the NIH Fitness and Dance Center, Building T39.