Dallas International Folk Dancers
Welcome to DIFD
Join us Every Sunday!
Welcome to everyone--young or old, experienced or beginner! Please join us for a fun afternoon of international folk dancing. We meet Sundays from 2 to 4:00 pm at the beautiful Plaza Arts theater. (it has a wood floor for comfortable dancing) in historic downtown Carrollton. (Occasionally we meet instead at at You Can Dance Dallas so be sure to check below in Announcements)
The Dallas International Folk Dancers is a group of enthusiastic dancers who gather for the enjoyment and preservation of recreational folk-dancing. International folk dancing includes the traditional social dances of countries and cultures from around the world. It's fun and great exercise too. We hope to see you soon!
Announcements:
Hey all you dancers,
We have our weekly dance this Sunday at the Plaza Arts Center in downtown Carrollton from 2:00 – 4:00 PM. It is a great deal, just $5.00 per person, cash only, for 2 full hours of dancing. The Murray’s will be providing the music and program for a fun afternoon.
We will continue to brush up on 5 Hungarian dances to perform on Sunday, October 11 in Irving at 6:00 PM. I will also review Mavromata, a bouncy little Greek dance we did a couple of weeks ago.
Eniko, a member of our group, has invited us to get a performance together of Hungarian Dances, (about 15 – 20 minutes) to perform at a meeting of the Metroplex Magyar Cultural Circle on Sunday, October 11 around 6 PM at Cistercian Academy in Irving. She has access to a few Hungarian costumes that might be provided for us to borrow. If there are not enough, we need to coordinate something for the rest of us to wear. We would like to do dances that are commonly done at our Sunday dances, such as Kor Csardas, Kor Tanc, Olahos, Somogy Karikazo, and For A Birthday. In order to participate, you need to know the dances and be willing to provide/borrow an outfit for yourself that coordinates with the group. If you know some of the dances, you could dance those and be on the sidelines for the ones you don’t know. More info on wardrobe later. For now, if you are interested, let me know by email, and show up at our Sunday dances to review some Hungarian dances!. (This is the same weekend as Texas Camp.)
Here are some videos to help you work on the dances.
Kor Csardas, Hungarian folk dance
Somogyi Karikazo Laguna Folk Dance Festival Feb 2016 with THE GARLIC BAND
Kor Tanc
For A Birthday
Metroplex Magyar Cultural Circle
Go dancing this weekend!
Susie
