Beginning and advanced classes, dances, workshops, and camps
Hambo class at the FSGW Mini-Fest, on Saturday, February 4, 1-2 pm. This is at the Takoma Park Middle School, 7611 Piney Branch Road, Takoma Park. Lisa Brooks and Dan Kahn will teach, and Sonia Pearson White will play nyckelharpa.
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. --January 17, 24, and 31 --February 7, 14, 21, and 28 (check this site for snow cancellations). (Yes, Feb 28, added after the FSGW listing was made.) --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. 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 1/23/12.
Scandia DC dances: usually on the third Saturday of non-summer months in Greenbelt, MD. 7 pm class, 8-10 pm dancing. Next on February 18 (teaching Gammalvänster), March 17 (teaching Hambo variants), April 21 (teaching Slängpolska from Malung), and May 19 (teaching Busserull). Scandia DC and Scandinavian dancing in this area.
Norwegian dancing: on Sunday, February 12. Info: pi@xecu.net, 301-371-4312. Norwegian dancing in this area. The Spring Springar Spree will be on April 27-29. Olav Sem will teach Telespringar.
Sunday afternoon waltzes at the Glen Echo Spanish Ballroom: generally on the first and third Sundays of each month (Jan 29, Feb 5, 19, Mar 4, 18, Apr 1, 15.). Waltz information.Activities in Glen Echo Park.
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 with Olav Sem.
Scandia Camp Mendocino --Mendocino, California, June 9-16, 2012. With Ewa and Tommy Englund teaching the dances of western Dalarna, and Arnhild Brennesvik and Eivind Bakken teaching Telemark.
Nordic Fiddles and Feet (NFF) -- July 1-8, 2012 at Ogontz Camp in New Hampshire. (With minicamp July 1-4 ?)
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.
