The Tuesday Night Folk Dance Group of Pittsburgh Presents Enon Valley Fall Folk

Dance Camp

Michael Ginsburg (Balkan) has been teaching Balkan folk Ahmet Lüleci (Turkish) is a native of Turkey, and an dance for over 50 years, starting in 1964 with Michael accomplished choreographer, dance teacher and performer as with Herman's Folk Dance House in New York City. He well as a researcher of Anatolian culture. He is currently the continues to teach a weekly Balkan dance class in New York artistic director of the Boston based Collage Dance Ensemble, City. He is an expert in the complex rhythms of Balkan which allows him to further his goal of making folk dance and Ahmet Lüleci music and has made several research trips to Bulgaria and music accessible to a wider audience. He is the winner of the former Yugoslavia, and studied in Macedonia with Pece Crash Art's " Dance Straight Up! 2004 and 2006", " Ten's the Turkish Dances Atanasovski. Michael has taught workshops all over North limit 2005" and Boston Dance Umbrella's " Boston Moves America, as well as in Brazil, Japan, Israel, Germany, 2001" awards for choreography. His choreography set for Austria, and Switzerland. Michael has been on the teaching Budlet dance company won the Gold medal at "Hong Kong and staff of many folk dance camps and seminars, including open Dance Competition 2004". He was also recently Stockton Folk Dance Camp, Kolo Festival in San Francisco, presented with the 2002 Award for Outstanding Achievement and the annual Macedonian Pearls Seminars in Berovo, in the Arts & Humanities by ATAA (the Assembly of Turkish Michael Ginsburg North Macedonia. Also a musician, Michael has been American Associations. His company Collage has won the director and lead trumpet player of Zlatne Uste Balkan Brass fifth place at the world dance competition in year 2003. His Balkan Dances Band since 1983. He accompanied ZU to brass festivals in college major was music, specializing in voice. Just as his love Guca, Serbia, three times between 1987 and 1990, as well as of folksongs guided him toward academic study of music, in 2003 and 2005, where he and ZU were able to play and Ahmet's fascination with dance led him to conduct scholarly party with local brass bands and experience the music in its research into the historical, social and cultural background of September 17-19, 2021 natural setting. Michael is also lead trumpet player with the costumes and spoon dances from Turkey's Mediterranean Kavala Brass Band, which features brass music of Northern coast. His efforts resulted in an exhaustive, 400 page study for Greece as well as music from North Macedonia. Michael which he was awarded First Place in the 1985 national at has toured as a percussionist with Bulgarika, a Bulgarian competition in research on the folkdances of Turkey by the band that specializes in traditional Bulgarian dance music, Turkish ministry of Youth, Sports, and Education. In 1997 SNPJ, Enon Valley, PA and plays tupan with the Bulgarian group "Cerven Traktor." Ahmet completed a second degree in Fine Arts. He is This is Michael's first time at Enon Valley, and we're thrilled currently the Artistic Director of Collage Dance Ensemble and that he'll be joining us. served as an International Art Director of "Outside the Box" International Arts Festival in 2015, takes place in Boston.