MIT Folk Dance Club
MIT Folk Dance Club
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About The Club
Schedule of Weekly Dances with Tables
Schedule of Weekly Dances without Tables
Schedule
of Sunday Night International Programming and Teaching
Scheduled Israeli Folk Dance Programmers
IAP Special Events Club
Mailing List Special
Events Vinovana,
Our Performing Group How
to Find a Room We're Scheduled in Links
to related dance sites
ABOUT THE CLUB The MIT Folk Dance Club sponsors three nights of dancing each week throughout the year, all of which are open to the MIT community and the general public.
Sunday night International Dancing and Wednesday night Israeli Dancing usually meet either in Sala de Puerto Rico or in the Lobby of Building 13 (Check the schedule), from 7:00 to 11:00PM. Both nights start with Early Teaching at 7PM, followed by teaching and requests from 7:30-11PM. Beginners are always welcome.
The Club also sponsors 
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our very own performing group, which is always interested in getting new
members and performing opportunities.
All Club Meetings are open to the general public, we're especially interested in hearing from MIT students!
We also have an information line at (617) 253-FOLK (253-3655). We're considered to be one of the best places for International Dance in the entire country: Come and check us out!
IAP Special Events The MITFDC gives gives classes and workshops as part of IAP each January. These are sample classes from recent years.
International Folk Dance. Earn Phys-Ed credits by dancing! Marilyn
Richards will teach you the skills to get you going in the Folk Dancing
scene. Experience and appreciate the diverse cultures of faraway lands
through their dances.
A workshop on Choreographic Topology. This is a sequence of playful
exercises (combining elements of circle-dancing and mathematics) that will
enable you to develop a tactile, kinetic sense of the ways in which knots
can be deformed into other knots that seem to be very different. In addition to tackling basic topological issues ("What deformations are possible?"), we will also study choreographic issues ("What deformations can be executed smoothly?").
Contact person: Jim Propp (propp(at)math(dot)mit(dot)edu; 253-6544)
Club Mailing List We maintain a mailing list which is used to send out various club announcements and to publicize events that might be of interest to folkdancing fans. You are welcome to use the list to send folk dance related messages or questions to other members of the club. If you would like to be added to / removed from the list, please send your email address to fdc-request(at)mit(dot)edu. You can also add yourself to the list using the mailmaint program on athena.
two mailing lists are maintained by the club:
fdc(at)mit(dot)edu (all club members and folkdancers)
fdc-admin(at)mit(dot)edu (the club administrators) You can also check the MITFDC Info Line (253-FOLK) for announcements.
Special Events
Annual Israeli Dance MarathonThe Christmas Eve Israeli Dance
Marathon takes place every year on or about Christmas Eve. We start at
6pm and dance until 6am in Walker Gym on the MIT
Campus. People come from all over the continent (and even from Amsterdam!) to
dance at MIT! We'll start with simpler dances and move progressively
to harder dances as the night goes on, so be sure to come earlier rather
than later...even beginners will have fun if you show up at six!
Beginners' Nights Beginners' nights are for people who haven't done
much dancing before and want to learn some and for more experienced dancers
who want to practice the basics. In other words, they are for everyone.
You need no prior experience and you don't need a partner. All Beginners'
Nights are in the Sala de Puerto Rico in the Student Center at 7PM. These
nights are usually scheduled in June and September.
The Boston Israeli Folk Dance Festival takes place each year in
March, in Kresge Auditorium on the MIT campus, next to the student center.
The show includes dance ensembles from all over the United States and Canada.
Tickets are $12, $10 if ordered before March 1. Call MIT Hillel at (617)
253-2982 for more information and to order tickets.
Vinovana To be constructed...
Where We Meet 
These are the locations where we usually meet (see map above):
Club Meeting Club meeting usually take place in our club office (W20-437), located at the fourth floor of the Stratton Student Center.
Links to other dance pages
The Folk Arts Center of New England
home page, with their calendar and other Boston area Folk Dancing.
Kesher Lamachol , the
premier site for israeli folkdancing
Ken Avner's Israeli Folkdance page
Folk Dancing at Harvard Sunday nights
Larry Denenberg's Beginner's Catechism page
israelidance.com, which
includes a test to see if you are a true folk dance addict and a
session-finder, in case you're thinking of moving and want to see if
there's dancing there first
edancing, another good site for
israeli folkdancing, from philadelphia