Nordic Fiddles & Feet Music & Dance of Norway & Sweden Ogontz Camp, New Hampshire
Sunday, June 26 – Sunday, July 3, 2016
From Norway: Knut Arne Jacobsen and Brit B. Totland – Dances and Songs from Valdres
From Sweden: Tommy and Ewa Englund – Selected dances from Dalarna, Jämtland, Medelpad, & Hälsingland Stefhan Ohlström – Dance Fiddler
Sunniva Abelli – Nyckelharpa, Songs from Västerbotten Caroline Eriksson – Swedish Fiddle
From the United States: Roo Lester and Larry Harding - Scandinavian Dance Basics Bruce Sagan - Gammaldans band, Nyckelharpa Loretta Kelley - Hardanger Fiddle Andrea Larson – Beginning Fiddle
Experience a magical week of music and dance in the beautiful White Mountains! Choose from daily classes in dancing, fiddle, nyckelharpa, Hardanger fiddle, and singing with world-class instructors for all levels. Enrich your experience with cultural programs, concerts, and craft sessions. Relax by the lake or enjoy an afternoon canoeing, swimming, or hiking and then round off the day at the nightly dance party or jamming with friends and staff. Families Welcome! -- Children under 5 free Information
Dance classes are designed for all levels of dancers. Basics with other parents for playgroup and other options. class introduces basic dance practices while teaching body mechanics and skills helpful for all levels of dancers. PayPal: Please contact Theresa for information on this Swedish and Norwegian classes feature traditional option at [email protected]. regional dances. Special additional classes may review dances taught in previous years or enrich the offerings. You Payment deadline dates: Full payment must be received by don’t need to attend camp with a dance partner. We change May 15 for the discounted rate. Registrations received after partners frequently during classes and the dance parties. May 15 will be charged the full rate. The $200 deposit Evening parties include mixers, gammaldans (old-time required with registration is refundable until May 15, and dances), bygdedans (specific village dances), dances taught, the balance minus the deposit is refundable until June 15. and requests. Live music for all classes and dance parties! Camp Ogontz is on 350 acres in the New Hampshire White Music classes are offered at three levels for fiddle, Mountains, SW of Littleton off Route 10. It is on a lake hardingfele, and nyckelharpa. Levels 2 and 3 presume surrounded by woods and sunny open spaces. The camp previous playing experience. Singing classes include singing amenities include a large dining hall, swings, tennis and for dance and traditional songs. Classes are generally volleyball courts, lovely paths through the woods, taught "by ear" but a music syllabus may be pre-ordered to swimming, canoeing, and, of course, dance halls, and supplement the classes. A limited number of Hardanger rehearsal spaces. fiddles and nyckelharpas are available for loan at camp. Make a note of your interest on your registration. Food: Ogontz bakes its own bread and desserts, and offers Gammaldans Band is open to all instruments and voices. tasty meals with vegetarian (not vegan) options. The kitchen cannot cater to special diets, but a list of Housing There are two types of housing: (1) open ingredients is available at all meals. If you have special “Adirondack” cabins (with roll-down tarps for rain and needs, you will need to come prepared. Refrigerators for privacy), which house 2-3 people, with shared bathrooms camper use are stocked with items such as yogurt, carrots, nearby; and (2) “Premium” cabins with four walls and more celery, bread, cheese, peanut butter, hummus, tofu, and soy convenient bath facilities. Premium rooms range from dorm and rice milk. style to lovely cottages with living rooms and separate bedrooms. Apply early for those options, as there are a Scholarships: For more information, or to apply, please limited number available and will be assigned to full-time email Marilyn at [email protected] campers first. All units have beds with mattresses (not cots) and electric lights. Ogontz also has a few rental houses at Bruce Sagan & Judy Barlas Scholarship is a $600 award extra cost. Contact Ogontz directly and go to given to campers based on need. Recipients may be currently www.campogontz.com for information and pictures. active in the music and dance community or may be newly interested in Scandinavian music or dance. Camp starts at 4 pm on Sunday, June 26, and ends with breakfast on Sunday, July 3. Young Dancer Scholarship helps young dancers (up to 35 years old) currently active or becoming interested in Part-time option: Campers may attend part of camp, Scandinavian dance and who may need financial assistance preferably starting on June 26 if possible. to attend. Scholarships of $600 will be granted. Recipients may also apply for additional travel funds. New! Young adults (19-30 years old) may attend camp for a reduced rate. Carolyn Pulis Memorial Scholarship is a $500 award given to musicians attending for the first time. Children are welcome with an adult who is responsible for them. Children under 5 years old come for free. If there is Work Scholarships reduce the fee to $550 and involve sufficient interest, we may be able to offer a children’s about three hours of work daily, arranged to accommodate program for an hour or two a day. Contact Byron class schedules. [email protected] for more information and to connect
Staff
Knut Arne Jacobsen and Brit B. Totland are a dynamic Sunniva is known for her dynamic and danceable playing. team who are frequently sought-after for dance workshops Her first cd, Framåt! was released in 2014. across the U.S. Knut Arne is from Øystre Slidre, Valdres and studied Valdresspringar with tradition-bearers Knut and Caroline Eriksson is a fiddler and member of the group Berit Steinsrud, Harald Røine and Ingar Ranheim, among Tradpunkt with Sunniva Abelli. She has a degree from the others. When living in Bø in Telemark, he studied with Royal College of Music in Stockholm in folk music and is Agnes Buen Garnås. His singing teachers in the Valdres now taking the supplementary course in pedagogy. She tradition include the Fuglesteg/Lie family, Ingvar Hegge, works as a music teacher and a musician. Caroline has a and Marit Karlberg. He will also share his joy of singing and broad repertoire, but specializes in the folk music of storytelling. He has a particular interest in lullabies, and Södermanland, Dalarna, and Uppland. also has some songs for dancing. Brit teaches and works with Valdreslaget and children's dance groups in Oslo. Loretta Kelley is a well-known performer on the Hardanger fiddle. In Norway, she is regarded with Tommy and Ewa Englund are beloved and respected dance tremendous respect for her talent, skill, and devotion to teachers, known for their clarity of presentation and their national instrument. She places well in fiddle contests, personal warmth. They teach many popular dances, and accompanies top Norwegian dancers in competitions. including those of their native Hälsingland and She is much sought- after and respected at Scandinavian Gästrikland. Both have earned numerous awards including music and dance events across the US and is president of the Big Silver for polska dancing in 1983, the Hälsingehambo Hardanger Fiddle Association of America. In addition to contest 1983-86, the World Cup Swedish Schottis many public performances, she has released four recordings: Championship, and the Swedish Folkdansringen Silver Dansekveld, AmerikaSpel, Hambo in the Barn (1996) and merit medal. Tommy is a judge for many dance contests Hambo in the Snow (2006), (with Andrea Hoag and Charlie including the Hälsingehambo. Ewa is a member of the Board Pilzer). She has made over 25 study trips to Norway in the for the Polska Medal Testing for dances from Jämtland, last 20 years Härjedalen, and Medelpad and received the gold medal in 2012. Ewa and Tommy worked with the dance-researchers Roo Lester and Larry Harding are a knowledgeable and Göran and Inger Karlholm on an old village dance, fun team who facilitate and welcome all to Scandinavian Storhurveln and contributed the dance description in Old turning dances. Roo has studied and participated in dance Dances from Jämtland and Härjedalen. and music events in Scandinavia since 1983. She received the Big Silver medal in Swedish polska dancing and Stefhan Ohlström, currently a resident of Ithaca, NY, is continues testing additional dances. Larry is an originally from Uppland, Sweden. An experienced dance accomplished athlete and dancer and has taught with Roo fiddler, he has played for the Hörkens Bygededansare in for many years. Their clear, positive teaching style blends Västmanland, Norrlandia Camp in Hälsingland, numerous background information, styling and technique to present other workshops, and most notably for Uppdansning the basics to dancers of all levels in a fun and lighthearted competitions. In 1983 he was awarded rikspelman for music manner. of Västmanland. We are very fortunate to welcome back this wonderful fiddler to play for the Swedish dance teachers this Andrea Larson is delighted to be back at NFF this summer. year. She will teach the beginning fiddle class and Swedish fiddle technique and share work developed since her sabbatical at Sunniva Abelli is a nyckelharpa player, singer, and a the Eric Sahlström Institute in Sweden in 2012-13. With a composer of contemporary folk music with roots in Swedish focus on exercises that link music to the dance (and back traditional music. She also plays traditional music from again!) she looks forward to making music with students of Västerbotten. She graduated from the Nordic Master all ages and levels. program in folk music in 2015, after two years of studies at academies in Sweden, Denmark, Finland, and Norway.
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