Berkeley folk Dancers

Berkeley Folk Dancers is America’s largest folk dance club.

Dancing seven times a week, fifty weeks a year.

Now in our 82nd year!

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For a calendar of Berkeley City Holidays click HERE.

Upcoming Events

Middle Eastern and

Argentine Folk Dance

Workshop with   Helene Eriksen

Helene Eriksen

 

Monday June 19, 2023

7:45 to 9:45 pm, doors open 7:30 pm

 

$10 per person

 

Live Oak Recreation Center

1301 Shattuck Ave, Berkeley CA 94

 

International Teacher, Dancer, Ethnologist and Chorographer.

Helene teaches traditional
dances of the Balkans and Islamic Orient, as well as Argentine Tango and folk
dance. She lectures and publishes on dance ethnology and costume studies. She
has conducted many research projects in Bulgaria, ex-Yugoslavia, Hungary,
Romania, Greece, Turkey, Armenia, Georgia, Egypt, Uzbekistan, Pakistan,
Algeria, Tunisia, Morocco and Argentina.

To register online click HERE.

Helene’s extended Bio  at: https://helene-eriksen.weebly.com/

More Information,
Registration Help:
yvonneprovaznik@comcast.net      

(510) 778-0184

Sponsored by Berkeley Folk
Dancers

 

 

Classes

Instructors

Beginner

Tuesday Afternoon 1:30 to 3:30 pm

Northbrae Church

 

apnitrate@aol.com

(510) 375-6874

Andy Partos

Beginner

Thursday Evening 7:45 to 9:30

Live Oak Park

 

kindermar@sbcglobal.net

(510) 549-1703

Marian Snyder

helenbrown333@gmail.com

 
Helen Brown

Intermediate

Thursday Afternoon 1:30 to 3:30 pm

Northbrae Church

 

marijahillis@gmail.com

510-684-7514

 
Marija Hillis

Intermediate

Tuesday Evening  7:45 to 9:30 pm

Live Oak Park

 
Marian Snyder

kindermar@sbcglobal.net

(510) 549-1703

David Hillis

davidhillis1@comcast.net

(510) 872-5066

Sondra Reiman

sondra@berkeley.edu

(510) 524-6113

 

Advanced Intermediate

Wednesday Evening 7:45 to 9:30

Live Oak Park

 
Luoping Zhang

luoping@berkeley.edu

(510)528-0749

marijahillis@gmail.com

510-684-7514

 
Marija Hillis

Advanced 

Monday Evening  7:45 to 9:30

Live Oak Park

 

yaqizhang@comcast.net

(510) 345-2845

 
Yaqi Zhang

Contact Person for Afternoon Classes

 

bigwayne@comcast.net

 

 
Big Wayne Phillips

Request Night

Friday Evening 7:45 to 9:45

Live Oak Park

Peter D'Angelo and Ilene Goldman

pvdangelo@hotmail.com

(510)654-3136

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Berkeley City Holidays 2023

 

Berkeley Folk Dancers has the use of Live Oak Hall on each of the starred holidays in 2023.  On the unstarred dates, we will not dance.

 

1/2 *

1/16 *

2/13 *

2/20 *

5/19 *

5/29 *

6/19 *

7/4

9/4

10/9 *

11/10 *

11/23

12/24

12/25