The intermediate International Folk Dance class meets on Tuesdays and Marilyn Smith, the folk dance teacher, snapped this photo on Mardi Gras. We are in Monroe Hall, enjoying its nice wood floor. The class is pretty big — about 35 show up every Tuesday at 7 pm to learn a new dance. I find it very challenging mentally and physically, but I want to have some “dance vocabulary” for the Rhone folk dancing trip in June.
Sue Nelson and I signed up for the second week of Brazil Camp, but Sue had to move her participation to the first week and I could not join her because of the eclipse — can’t move an eclipse! Here are a few photos from the Saturday 26 August celebration that started at 11 a.m. and danced and drummed and paraded on until the 3 p.m. feast.
Dance Finale Brazil Camp 2017
The lady on the left joined us for lunch. She is a forensic architect who works on construction defects cases and had a fascinating story of how she got into that unusual line of work. Sue is dancing at the two o’clock position above.
https://drive.google.com/open?id=0ByZ1PCtxW2o4S1dSZ0tabV9IZFE 25 second clip of circle dance
Sue Dancing
Sue Nelson During Quiet Moment On Main Stage
Delora Porter offers sweet peas to classmates in Marilyn Smith’s International Folk Dance Class
At the far right is Julie, and flanking Delora are Sandy, who delighted us with her belly-dancing, and Beverly in the center of the photo. You will notice some Santa Rosa H.S. students who take this class as a P.E. credit.
Marilyn will continue to teach in the area, and her classes at Monroe Hall can be found on her website Razzmatazz.