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Speledans
Boston's Scandinavian Dance Group
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Speledans is the Boston area's Scandinavian folk dance organization.
We put on public dances on a fairly regular schedule.
We also list a few other Scandinavian-related dance and music events here.
The schedule is often sparse during the summer (because so many of us are
off at Scandinavian dance events).
The usual schedule each month is:
- First Saturday evenings, 8-10:30 pm:
Scandinavian Dance (some teaching during early part of evening)
- Second Sunday afternoons, 2-5 pm:
Gammaldans (easy old-time Scandinavian dances, beginners welcome)
- Third Saturday evenings, 8-10:30 pm:
Scandinavian Dance (some teaching during early part of evening)
- Fourth Saturday evenings, 8-11 pm:
Norwegian Dance (check with Vivian Peterson before attending)
Places where our dances are held:
- Arlington Church of Our Savior
- map
directions
21 Marathon Street, Arlington, Mass, USA
- Arlington Park Ave Congregational Church
- map
directions
50 Paul Revere Road, Arlington, Mass, USA
2005 Schedule
Fall 2005:
For further information, please contact
Erica (781-891-3207)
or
Eph (Eph@ieee.org).
Special events
Related Web sites
- Folk Arts Center
- The Boston area's folk dance clearing house.
If you want to know about folk dancing in the Boston area,
contact these folks.
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The Boston Phoenix
- A weekly publication that tells you what's happening around Boston.
- MIT Folk Dance Club
- An international dance club that does a lot of teaching.
Primarily Balkan, with a few Scandinavian dances at most events, and
occasional Scandinavian workshops.
- NEFFA
- The New England Folk Festival Association,
which runs the Boston area's annual weekend folk festival
and a number of other events.
- Revontulet
- The Fitchburg area's Finnish folk dance performing group.
- Boulder Colorado dance group
- Send email to Eric Meyer
- Scandia D.C.
- Send email to Linda Brooks
or Ross Schipper
- ANA
- American Nyckelharpa Association
- Skandia Folkdance Society of Seattle
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- Scandinavian Dancers of Vancouver BC
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- Northern California Spelmanslag
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- HFAA
- (Hardanger Fiddle Association of America
- scandlist
- Scandinavian folklore mailing list.
- Roo Lester
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- Some Speledans people:
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- 1-781-647-1813, 1-781-910-1813
John Chambers & Shelley Drowns (musicians)
- 1-617-277-2496
Hilkka & John Williams
- 1-781-891-3207
Erica Zissman & Morty Isaacson
- 1-617-924-2705
John Hostage
- 1-781-862-8823
Wendy & David Ernst
- 1-781-862-6096
Eph Weiss
- 1-978-256-8546
Matt Fichtenbaum (musician)
- 1-781-224-0575
Vivian Peterson
Musicians might be interested in checking out the phenomenon of
sharable, emailable music using the ABC notation. I have a
music directory / that is full of music in ABC notation;
the Scand subdirectory contains some Scandinavian
tunes that the Boston gang plays.
Please send updates and corrections to
John Chambers at MIT
or to
John Chambers at google mail.