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 COMMUNITY DANCING MAKES FOR HAPPY HOLIDAYS

When the peoples of our planet celebrate holidays, they dance!  Our CDs and DVDs can help you honor President's Day (CD#2, DVD#5); African-American History month ("Here Comes Sally," CD#3/DVD#6, and others); Chinese New Year ("High Green Mountain," CD#3/DVD#6; "Diu Xie," CD#4/DVD#7); St. Pat's (Irish dances on CD#2/DVD#4, CD#4/DVD#7); and Passover (Israeli dances on most CDs/DVDs, plus the humorous recently discovered traditional dance, "The Matzorena"). 

SANNA'S UPCOMING WORKSHOPS

After her presentation as Headliner at the New York State School Music Association conference, Dec. 4-5 in Rochester, Sanna's next workshop is at the Colorado Music Ed conference on Jan. 29-30.  The following weekend, she'll be in San Francisco teaching for the Northern California Kodaly Music Ed chapter, meeting Feb. 6 at the San Francisco Day School. And Feb. 18-19, she's presenting at the New Jersey state music ed conference.  Click on "Workshops" for details.

A SPECIAL SUMMER ETHNIC MUSIC AND DANCE WORKSHOP

Spend four days in July with Sanna and other well-known ethnic dance teachers and musicians in Wisconsin's air-conditioned peninsula at the Door County Folk Festival, July 7-11, 2010.  A famous festival for folk dance aficionados since 1979, it now also features a Teacher Continuing Education Program to help educators learn dances from many world cultures while also participating in singing and instrumental workshops and evening parties, plus the famous fish boil dinner. www.dcff.net, click on Door County Festival Homepage, then Teacher Continuing Ed.        

DANCE WITH SANNA ON THE PEARSON EDUCATION WEBSITE

A longtime author and clinician of the Silver Burdett music education series, Sanna was asked in November 2008 to be the "dance partner" of Pearson Education, publisher of Silver Burdett's excellent Making Music K-8 textbooks.  Check out www.pearsonschool.com/music2008 to see how to download one of her dances.    

            IF YOU ENJOY TEACHING WORLD DANCING OR ANY DANCING, YOU WOULD LOVE THE POURPARLER WEEKENDS! 

If you teach traditional/ethnic/folk/creative dance in schools and communities, please join us at our annual Pourparler gatherings to share dances and discuss common concerns. We dance and sing to live and recorded music, we talk about mutual issues, we offer suggestions and support, we network with our colleagues from all over North America, and we laugh and play joyously. 

                          Our next Pourparler is Sept. 23-26, 2010, in Shepherdstown, W.Va.                                              For info: This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it , or www.NFO-USA.org.  Hope you can come!

DANSEZ EN FRANCAIS, new in the STEP LIVELY series

Marian Rose's newest CD/book, full of lively and accessible French dances in Marian's inimitable style. You'll be able to order it soon from this website.