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Published by the Folkdance Federation of California, South Volume 49, No. 2 March 2013 Folk Dance Scene Committee Coordinator Jay Michtom [email protected] (818) 368-1957 Calendar Gerri Alexander [email protected] (818) 363-3761 On the Scene Jill Michtom [email protected] (818) 368-1957 Club Directory Steve Himel [email protected] (949) 646-7082 Dancers Speak Sandy Helperin [email protected] (310) 391-7382 Federation Corner Beverly Barr [email protected] (310) 202-6166 Proofreading Editor H. 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Size (width x length) Federation Club Others To: [email protected] 1/4 page (3” x 3 1/2”) $10 $15 Folk Dance Scene Ads 1/2 page (6” x 3 1/2” or 3” x 7”) $15 $25 1524 Vivian Lane Full page (6” x 7 1/2”) $25 $40 Newport Beach, CA 92660 On the cover: Chris Owenson, Marshall and Cheryl Cates teach at Beginners’ Festival, Culver City,1990 Folk Dance Scene 2 35 March 2013 Club Directory Folk Federation News Dance Scene NOTICE - CHANGE OF VENUE Westwood Co-op’s annual Spring Festival will have Volume 49, No. 2 a change of venue this year. The festival will be March 2013 held in the Fiesta Hall at Plummer Park, which is located in West Hollywood. Admission is once again free. There will be a Federation meeting at 11:00. See the ad on p. 12 for more details. Editors’ Corner FEDERATION ELECTION Thanks to the many folks who answered our call for their folk dance stories. You can read them starting Federation election of new officers is right around on page 4. If you didn’t respond this time, you might the corner and you could be involved. Some posi- consider contributing to a later call for stories. Photos tions remain open. If being an officer doesn’t sound can add to the feeling, too. appealing to you, you might want to consider work- ing on one of the Federation’s committees. You are Broadening the participation in folk dancing is always welcome to come to see your Federation in discussed by Loui Tucker in the context of couple action. The next meeting will take place before the dances. Westwood Spring Festival. For more information Be sure to check out the recent and up-coming about available positions see your club representa- events. tive or contact Marsha Fenner: [email protected] or Enjoy the poetry. (626)446-5160 Be of good cheer! Pat Cross and Don Krotser FEDERATION SCHOLARSHIPS The Folk Dance Federation of California, South Table of Contents presents a limited number of scholarships every year to dancers in order to develop potential teachers, Federation News ........................................... 3 leaders, and folk musicians, as well as to recognize How I Started Folk Dancing ........................... 4 individuals for service to the folk dance community. Calendar ...................................................... 10 On the Scene ................................................ 14 This year, in addition to the Federation Scholar- Dancers Speak .............................................. 18 ships, funds have been donated for a $350.00 schol- An Advocate for Couple Dances ...................... 24 arship in memory of Henri Klein, who danced with Recent Events............................................... 28 Bay Osos Folk Dancers. You are eligible to apply for Poetry Corner ............................................... 32 a scholarship if you are a member of a Federation Club Directory ............................................... 34 club or are sponsored by an officer of the Federation (and have not received a scholarship within the past Federation South Officers 3 years). Application forms are available on line at the Federation web site SoCalFolkdance.org. There is President Valerie Daley (805) 647-1634 also a form in this issue of Folk Dance Scene Vice-President Lynn Bingle (626) 914-4006 For more information call or e-mail Marsha Fenner at [email protected] (626)446-5160. Treasurer Rick Bingle (626) 914-4006 Secretary Carl Pilsecker (562) 865-0873 Membership Steve Himel (949) 646-7082 Historian Carol Wall (562) 862-0521 Publicity Sylvia Stachura (626) 300-8138 For information about dancing in the area, contact the Federation at (310) 478-6600 or Federation website: SoCalFolkdance.org Folk Dance Scene 34 3 March 2013 How I Started Folk Dancing BARBARA ERICKSON Barbara, Stockton, and out of the state as far as My parents were always dancers, following the Big Canada. For some years, I hosted the master dance Bands in the East before moving to Inglewood, CA, teachers when they came to Southern California for in 1943. My earliest memory is going with them to their tours, and I arranged their tours, created flyers, an event that had a German band. I was very young and drove them to their and danced on top of my dad’s shoes, as children workshops. I still keep do. So started my love of polka dancing and in contact with good following the popular polka bands around the friends Atanas Southern California area, including Frankie Yankovic Kolarovski and Jaap on tour. Leegwater, and I hear My favorite haunt in the late ‘50s was the Mayflower from Jerry & Kathy Helt Ballroom in Inglewood, and that’s where I saw my once a year, so it was a first folk-dance exhibition group. After their great privilege and fascinating performance in costume, I asked one of created wonderful them where I could do these types of dances and memories to help the was told some of their dancers were associated with teachers while they Long Beach Co-Op. At the time of joining that group, Atanas, Barbara, Jaap ‘88 were in the area. I didn’t realize what expert dancers were in Thinking back, at age attendance there, including our teacher Donna Tripp 72, the teachers I had over the years couldn’t have and a lot of the Gandy Dancers. I learned a lot of the been better or more knowledgeable, and we have couple dances from a guy named Jack who wouldn’t lost some of the best. While I don’t dance much let a gal sit on the sidelines long, even though you anymore, I still stay connected via Folk Dance Scene didn’t know the dance. I also started attending the and Joan Bauer, a great friend since the ‘60s. Santa Monica group, with Avis Tarvin (a Gandy Nothing warms your heart like that wonderful music dancer) as teacher, who later invited me as a guest and doing your favorite dance next to long-time to visit the Gandys. friends. As time went on, I found myself more interested in Balkan dances because I didn’t need a partner, the BILL CAMPBELL music was great, and the dances challenging.