Folk Ball is held every January/February in the UW Memorial Union in Madison, Wisconsin.
Friday Night Parties
INTERNATIONAL DANCE: Great Hall (4th floor) 8:00-midnight.
VESELIYKA — Traditional Village Balkan (Madison's bitov band)
YID VICIOUS — Virtuous Klezmer (Yiddish) - Madison group
DO ZORE — The Milwaukee Sound from a New Generation!
HUNGARIAN TANCHAZ (village-style "dance-house")
7:30–11:00pm — music by SZASZKA (traditional string band)
— led by featured teacher Steve Kotansky
Please Note NEW LOCATION for Tanchaz!
Lakeshore end of "On Wisconsin Room" on ground floor of Red Gym
(716 Langdon St), next building up Langdon from Memorial Union.
CONTRA: The Crossing (1127 University Avenue)
7:30–8:00 — Teaching
8:00-11:00 — Dancing
Suggested donation $7.
Caller: Steve Pike
Music: The Good Intentions Paving Company (Paul Kienitz, Brian Ray, Roger Diggle)
Saturday Folk Arts Workshops
10–noon Great Hall BALKAN FOLKDANCE — Steve Kotansky
10–noon Tripp Commons IRISH CEILI (Set) Dancing — Ed Heffernan
10–noon Beefeater Room ETHNIC PERCUSSION — Robert Schoville
The workshop will focus on carnaval music from Salvador da Bahia, Brazil called Samba Reggae.
The workshop will be led by Robert Schoville, a doctoral candidate in Curriculum and Instruction focusing
on multicultural music education in higher education. Robert, a member of Madison's own
Reptile Palace Orchestra, has studied and performed during carnaval in Brazil, is the founder of the
Madison area percussion group, the Handphibians, as well as introducing the music of Brazil to the
UW–Madison Percussion program's World Percussion Ensemble.
Over the course of the two hour workshop, attendees will have the opportunity to play the fundamental
rhythms of this music style on Brazilian drums, learn an actual call and response carnaval arrangement
used be the Afro-Brazilian group, Olodum, and a description of carnaval that will help contextualize the
presence of percussion in Brazilian culture.
12–1pm Beefeater Room (Brownbag Lunch) — Orkestar Bez Ime
Natalie Nowytski, Scott Keever, Colleen Bertsch, and Katrina Mundinger.
Last summer the entire band traveled to Serbia to immerse themselves in Romani culture at the
Amala School (they'll share several new tunes thus acquired at the Saturday Folk Ball Dance Party!),
and this presentation allows us to share their adventures. Bring your questions along with your lunch!
1–3pm Great Hall IRISH CEILI (Set) DANCING — Ed Heffernan
(and music by the Capitol Ceili Band !)
1–3pm Tripp Commons -- ETHNIC DANCE in CONTEXT — Steve Kotansky
(a culture session/workshop combo including dance elements)
1–3pm Old Madison Room EAST EUROPEAN SINGING — Natalie Nowytski
3–5pm Great Hall BALKAN FOLKDANCE — Steve Kotansky
3–5pm Tripp Commons CAPOEIRA — Omulu Capoeira Guanabara
(capoeira is a Brazilian hybrid of folk arts and martial arts)
Visit Joan Amsterdam's FOLKSTUFF SHOP in Great Hall anytime Saturday!
Saturday BUFFET DINNER
Serving at 5:00 in the Union (Inn Wisconsin Room - 2nd floor east)
Lasagna (meat or vegetarian), salad, Italian squash medley,
bread sticks, cookies, coffee/tea/milk/soda,water.
Per person $20. Reservations required by January 27 —
Contact Michael mk@mailbag.com / 608-241-3655
The Legendary FOLK BALL DANCE PARTY
Saturday 7:00pm-12:30am (Great Hall of the Union)
Visit Joan Amsterdam's FOLKSTUFF SHOP in Great Hall anytime Saturday!
Sunday Workshop / Review in Great Hall
10:00am – 3:00pm Steve Kotansky
review of Saturday workshop dances, plus some new ones
