November 2010–January 2011 Volume 30, Issue 4 News www.tifd.org Inside this Issue: Getting Ready for Texas Camp 2010 Macedonian Costume book 2 Italian Village Dance Videos We will be doing a carnevale dance as part of our evening Italian party, Virtual Piano 2 and that particular dance uses castanets. Please bring castanets to camp TIFD Board of Directors 2 if possible so you can use them while learning the dance, during the Next Board Meeting 2 evening procession, and of course, in the future. What? No “Castanets R Us” in your neighborhood? Buy them online from Amazon, Lark in the Italian & Bulgarian Fun & Games 3 Morning, or Elderly Instruments. Expect to pay $14-$28 before shipping, Balkan Discography 3 and you will have a quality set to last you a lifetime. Stockton Notes Online 3 Here are some YouTube videos that are representative of the kinds of dances we will be learning. Get in the mood! The first one listed, Calendar 4 Tarantella Montemaranese, is the carnevale dance we will be doing both News from Local Groups 5 as a processional and as a social circle dance, that will be enhanced by In Memoriam - Dennis Boxell 5 your new castanets. You will also get some fantastic ideas for costumes from the first video! Trip to Bulgaria 2010 6 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zOQVEO51igM Bulgaria: Magical Moments 8 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wGoGduEIHII http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cQQMTwRQvYY http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mXAXG7sBnOU The second video listed is a dance called La Spallata. The third one shows dances from the Resia Valley. The fourth video has been choreographed and costumed for performance; however, the steps and style are the same as danced in the villages. Your Photos Requested As Texas Camp Historian, it’s my job to come up with the scrapbooks developed for each year’s Camp. I’ll be taking photos, but I can’t be Floor Slaves, Arise! everywhere all the time. It will be much appreciated if you could send me some of your best photos, either prints or digital files, of this year’s It’s that time again. In order to festivities. Remember, they will be seen for decades to come, so it really dance on our world-class wooden helps if you can include notes about names and activities so we can all floor, we need all able-bodied know who’s who in the future. We’ll enjoy trips down Memory Lane year volunteers on deck, literally. Please after year through the scrapbooks at Camp! let John Alexander know if you are Jan Bloom, [email protected] willing to help set up and/or take down our dance floor. neanderthal@ mail.utexas.edu or 512-453-4463. Balkan Bazaar Returns Suze and Richie will return to Camp this year with their van of irresistible folk music CDs, costumes, jewelry, clothing, and assorted goodies from the Balkans and beyond. They’ll be on the road for two weeks before Camp, so if anyone has a special request, or potential ethnic consignment items, please call or email Suze before they leave on November 11th. 919-967- 9514 or [email protected]. Page 2 November 2010–January 2011 TIFD News Macedonian Costume book Deadline for the next issue of TIFD News is Macedonian Village Dress: Going, Going, Gone by Naeda B. Robinson and Maria Canavarro January 18 This wonderful, oversized book, just The TIFD Quarterly Newsletter published, is a new reference from a unique is published on the first of the point of view. Dripping with unbelievably month, in February, May, August, beautiful pictures, this 206-page book is a and November; the eLetter is must-have for any serious collector, or anyone sent on the first of the remaining interested in the costumes and customs months. Send news to editor@ surrounding Macedonian dress. $40 includes tifd.org. Articles received after the postage within the USA. Includes a CD with deadline may be postponed until pictures of the entire collection of costumes the next issue or the next eLetter. from the Bitola Museum (the Institute, Deadline for the December eLetter Museum, and Gallery, Bitola). Research for is November 25. this book was presented in 2007 at the multi- day scholarly conference of the Costume TIFD News is published four times Society of America. For questions or other a year for the members of Texas inquiries, please write to [email protected]. Or contact the EEFC at: (510)547- International Folk Dancers, a non- 1118 . Or buy directly from their website, where pictures are also available. profit educational organization. http://www.eefc.org/site/index.php?book Submissions for publication are welcome, yet subject to editing. All opinions expressed are those Virtual Piano of the author exclusively. Material herein may be reproduced with Ever wonder how a tune goes, but can’t get your hands on a piano? Try the editor’s permission. this virtual piano (it even has settings to sound like a panpipe and other instruments): CALENDAR LISTINGS: Send http://www.bgfl.org/bgfl/custom/resources_ftp/client_ftp/ks2/music/piano/ email to [email protected] and index.htm [email protected]. ADDRESS CHANGES: For TIFD Board of Directors newsletter mailing list or TIFD Member Directory, contact TIFD, PO Box 4516, Austin, TX 78765, Terri Chadwick, President [email protected] Attention: Chuck Roth, 512-453- Susie Thennes, Vice President [email protected] 8936, [email protected]. Misi Tsurikov, Secretary [email protected] Shelley Allison [email protected] SOUTHWEST FOLK DANCE Jan Bloom [email protected] DIRECTORY: Send additions Bruce Bostwick [email protected] and corrections to Leslie Gompf, Sally Jenkins (TIFD News Editor) [email protected] [email protected]. Anne-Louise Schaffer [email protected] Jo Soto [email protected] GENERAL CONTRIBUTIONS: Email [email protected] or mail to TIFD Treasurer: Georgia Horn [email protected] TIFD News, PO Box 4516, Austin, Membership Chair: Chuck Roth [email protected] TX 78765. 2010 Texas Camp Co-chairs: Lissa Bengtson [email protected] Jo Soto [email protected] [email protected] Next Board Meeting The next TIFD Board meeting will be at 10:00 a.m. on Thursday, November 25, at Texas Camp. If you have an item you would like the Board to consider or if you would like to attend, please contact [email protected]. Volume 30, Issue 4 Page 3 Italian & Bulgarian Fun & Games Balkan Discography Непротивоконституционствувателствувайте! Posted on the EEFC listserve, abridged and printed with per- Neprotivokonstitucionstvuvatelstvuvajte! mission of Tom Deering and David Bilides the longest Bulgarian word Tom Deering, dancer and teacher from the Seattle area, (Do not act against the Constitution.) has set up a website whose purpose is to expose as many people as possible to the amazing collection of music Italian Tongue-Twister: available in the world. You can find this Un pezzo di pizza discography at: http://www.folklorediscography.org. che puzza nel pozzo This collection focuses primarily on out-of- del pazzo di pezza. print music from eastern Europe: Hungary, Romania, A piece of pizza is stinking in the well of the madman of Bulgaria, Greece, and the former Yugoslavia and the rags. countries that used to be part of it (Slovenia, Croatia, Serbia, Kosovo, Montenegro/Crnogora, Bosnia and Pasta Primer: Hercegovina, and Macedonia). Albums from other Lasagne (Latin lasania, “cooking pot”): Usually used as a regions are included if they were used for international base for layered oven-baked dishes. folk dancing, or if they had other redeeming value. It’s Gemelli (“twins”): Two thick strands rolled together. set up primarily for people to see what’s on older LP’s. Fusilli (from fuso, “spindle”): Traditionally molded by There are also some track samples from selected albums hand around a knitting needle. to listen to. However, since it is a discography, it is not Linguine (“little tongues”): A specialty of southern Italy. set up to download full tracks. Narrow flat pasta. Those of us who have digitized analog Rotini (“spiral”): Twisted shape. recordings, know how much work this takes. Tom has Rigatoni (“large ridged”): Robust shape goes with done an excellent job of service for the community with hearty, rich sauces. both the recordings and the artwork. He deserves a lot Farfalle (“butterfly”): Popular in both hot and cold of credit for this selfless, valuable task. We owe him and dishes. others like him a lot. - David. Macaroni (“dumpling”): Elbow-shaped tubular pasta. I hope many find it useful. Much credit goes to Ziti (“bridegrooms”): Served at Sicilian weddings. Ridged Larry Weiner (who also brought to my attention http:// surface holds thinner sauces. www.bg-popfolk.com/) and Erik Butterworth (who has Cavatappi (“corkscrew”): Curved, ridged tubes. been working on his site for some time: Radiatore (“radiators”): A relatively new pasta shape, http://physiome.org/~butterw/emdb/). Credit also has with delicate ruffled ridges. to be given to those who have lent or donated LPs, Penne (“feather”): Comes in smooth and ridged and of course to Steve Bard who is hosting the Folklore varieties. Discography site. Conchiglie (“shells”): Small version for soups is Suggestions are always appreciated... conchigliette; larger, stuffable shells are conchiglioni. ([email protected]) - Tom Ditalini (“little thimbles”): Often used in Pasta Fagioli, a soup of pasta and beans. Acini di Pepe (“peppercorns”): A tiny bead-shaped pasta Stockton Notes Online popular in soups and cold salads. Spaghetti (“a length of cord”): Very thin spaghetti is Psst - pass the word: called Capelli d’angelo, Italian for “angel hair.” All the syllabi for Stockton Folk Dance Camp - from 1948 to the present - have been scanned and are According to an online Bulgarian Trivia Game at now available in PDF format at www.folkdancecamp.org.