Here's What We Think
This is the page for expressing your thoughts about
Stockton Folk Dance Camp or Folk Dancing in General.
The ideas and opinions
expressed here are that of the post's author
and not that of Folkdance Camp or
the camp committee.
I will post any reasonable post, article, or comment as
space and time allows. Unreasonable post may be put up for the fun of it. Do
not send it, if you don't want your name attached.
Roy
Video for International folk Dance
I have started to put together with Loui Tucker’s editorial help the
“commercial” for International Folk Dancing. I put together the first cut on
May 14, 2008 and emailed it to Loui for her commit. As of writing of this
blog, we are on cut 7, by the time of the articles publication who knows.
The commercial is available for use in a number of different formats:
• The lower resolution email version that is suitable to email to your
friends.
Right click here to download video.
• The Brightcove and You Tube versions which are available for use on
your web sites.
The latest commercial can be seen on
http://internationalfolkdance.blogspot.com/ . This site is also the
current clearing house site for folk dance links.
Some of the earlier videos can be seen on my YouTube Site.
http://www.youtube.com/user/royisdancing .
The commercial has some fun clips of folk dancing and a web site contact
at the end. Eventual as this comes together we hope to have a very simple
web address. Currently, I am using the
http://internationalfolkdance.blogspot.com/ page.
The commercial is there for anyone to use to promote folk dancing. If you
need help on how to post it to you web page contact me, Roy Butler at
click for email.
If you have video that you have the rights to and would like me to post
to the video list contact me. If you want to post you on video to Brightcove
or You Tube, you can also contact me.
 International
Folk Dance Video List.
The video list page is the collection of my folk dance videos in a visual
folk dance video list at
http://my.starstream.net/patroy/videodancelist.htm .
This web site represents my ongoing project of video recording folk dances
and posting the dances to the web.
The videos are listed on the site in two formats.
- On the top of the page are two picture strips that are alphabetical
lists of the international folk dances available on the
SDOW Video
Channel and SIFDAC
Video Channel. Mousing over a picture in the strip will bring up the dance
name. Clicking on it will load the video player page and start the video.
Use the arrows at the bottom of each strip to advance the strip to see
more videos. Currently, the
SDOW strip
has twelve pages of videos and the
SIFDAC
Strip has 34, as I collect more dances the strips will expand.
- Below the video strips is an alphabetical list of the dances I have
collected. Clicking on the dance name will bring up a video of the dance.
If I have found a dance note source on the
internet
for the dance then link to the dance description is also listed. Each
dance is listed only once even though I may have multiple videos of a
dance in the collection. Check the picture strips to see all of the
videos.
The videos on the list are there for all folk dancers to use. If you need
more than a simple link that you can steal from the video players address,
then email me
Roy.
Milen has posted the a down loadable for a small fee MP3
file of him and Sara playing Vals60 and the score to Vals 60 to his
web site.
The videos that we have posted to the web site are to give a window of
what it is like to go to Folk Dance Camp. If you would like videos
for reviewing the dance, remember that besides the camp DVD which I hope
you bought, a number of the teachers have produced good quality DVDs
for dance review.
Cristian & Sonia have produced a great DVD of dances from their
first two CDs. Te aven Baxtale, Joc de doi & Dana along with other
favorites can be found on it.
Contact
Cristian & Sonia for details
on their DVD and other offerings. This is a great DVD and
a must for any Romanian fanatic.
Yves Moreau has also produced a series of exultant
Bulgarian DVDs.
Contact Yves for videos
Other teachers have also produced DVDs contact them by email for more
information.
Well FDC 2007 is over; I hope a good time was had by all. I
know I had a great time, even though I don't want to roll another table for
a while. Thanks to all the Scholarship people who helped with that
especially those who showed up for most moves. We could not do it
without you. Thank you to food service for letting us use their
space and working with us. Thank you to the teachers for understanding just
how critical it was to meet the schedule so food services could feed
everyone. I've been getting many commits on how much everyone loves the
video on the web site. The majority of the video was shot by Steve
Turner the Camp videographer. I shot a little that I will put up
soon, but it was to much work on top of everything I do, and besides there
is supposed to be only one videographer at camp and that is Steve.
Steve and I will be working to get up more video trough the year so keep
checking the web page. If you need a Folk Dance Video fix check out my
video page at
International
Folk Dance Video Exchange or my dance video list at
Social Dances of The World. As you can see from the front page we
already have a great line up for next year, and with the excitement
generated this year camp is already half full, so what are you waiting for?
Tony (the guy with the big truck) married Lynn (his favorite rigger) on
June 2, 2007. Being hard core folk dancers, they had a folk dance
themed wedding. Pictures and video of it can be seen here
http://my.starstream.net:80/patroy/Lynn_Tonys_Wedding.html.
More pictures by
Gypsy Flores
can be found here.
http://tonylynnswedding.shutterfly.com/action/
The wedding ceremony was heartfelt and moving. The party afterwards was
great fun. Best of luck to two wonderful people and dancers. Your
love is important to us all. Roy
I have started a video channel for Folk Dance Camp. It can be
found here
Stockton
Folk Dance Camp Channel. I have started the channel with some video I
took in 1988, the last year that private video cameras were allowed
at camp. In the future I will be adding more video from Steve the official
camp videographer.
This is a continuation of my project to bring folk dance videos to the
web. Check my master video channels page for more video
International
Folk Dance Video Exchange. If you have some video you would like to
share you can do it there. Roy
Camp is full! If you haven't already registered get
on the waiting list. Those who have registered but find they can't go,
please inform Jan Wright as
soon as you can. That way someone on the waiting list can go to camp.
Well as can be seen from the front page camp is filling up
fast. Make sure you reserve a place now. If you don't see your
favorite teacher on the main teachers list stay tuned. A number of
other great teachers will be making appearances as guest of camp.
What can I say about the 2006 camp. Even with all the extra
work it was a great camp, Great teachers, a lot of useable dances and
great fun.
The 2007 camp should be even better see you there.
Roy
Camp is developing a newsletter about camp to be
distributed by email. Articles from the news letter can be seen on the site
at this page Camp Newsletter .
Some of these articles have gotten me to think about what
camp means to me.
I am at my happiest at camp. Those two weeks a summer
are Prozac for my soul.
Camp is a village or a tribe, that comes together for two
weeks a year.
Some of my best friends in life, I mainly only see at camp.
Sure, I may seen them in passing at Statewide or some other festival, but
only at camp does the true intensity of the relationship show it self.
Even with people I see weekly at folk dance events, camp brings us closer.
We have a new section on the web site (letters
from camp) where we reprint Jan's letters to the campers for those who
don't always get their mail.
For those who missed the Camellia Festival, you missed a
great party. Richard and Yves both delivered great workshops.
Chubritza, with their great danceable high leave of musicianship played for
two wonderful parties.
Sorry about the long time between updates but I have been
busy. If you have commits or suggestions please email them. This blog is not
just a place for my opinions, but a place for your views about camp.
Roy
Folk Dancing has Lost One of its Greats.
Dick Crum
has passed away
Good Morning, friends. It is just before 8.00 am in
Minneapolis & St Paul, Minnesota, in the USA. I just got word from a local folk dancer who is close to his family that Dick Crum has died. We don't yet
know what caused his death, but according to the folk dancer, who heard from
Dick's sister in St Paul this morning, Dick had been quite ill the past week
or so but had not been to a doctor. Friends and family became worried when
they hadn't heard from him and couldn't reach him by phone.
I'm sure more news will become available. His body will be cremated and
ashes brought back home to St Paul. There will be a memorial service here
in the Twin Cities (his birthplace and home) at some point. I or someone
here will keep you posted as we get information to share.
There are so many wonderful, personable, creative, and talented dance
teachers, researchers, and dancers in the world, but Dick Crum was THE most
precious treasure of them all. May his soul rest in peace, knowing how much
he was loved and appreciated all over the world.
Ceil
Wirth, Mpls
We have met the challenge. Thanks to some generous
donations we have exceeded the $50,000 donation mark to receive the matching
funds. These moneys will go into the Jack McKay
Endowment, which will be controlled by camp directly and not the
university. Thank you for you generosity. A donors list will be posted on
the site, when it becomes evadible. We do not need to stop
here, any donations to the Jack McKay Endowment or the Scholarship fund will
be greatly appreciated.
So let's start this off.
I am guilty of heresy. How may of you are tired of the
round dance mentality? How may of you have poked fun at the choreographed
waltz, polka or tangos, while doing your third or fourth choreographed pravo
for the night?
I think its time that the teachers, who teach dances
from counties that have a living folk dance tradition, start to teach the
dances as they are done in a social situation. In other words, teach the
basic step used by the average dancer, then the rules for improvisation on
top of that step. Do we need to learn yet another stage choreography.
Roy Butler
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