Lauren Lancaster for The Wall Street Journal Serdar Ilhan and Mehmet Dede, the founders of the festival "At any given brass-band show you're bound to see traditional folk-dance circles alongside a younger crowd doing crazy interpretive dances," said Adam Pogoff , the producer of "Brasslands," a forthcoming documentary about Balkan brass music. ❋ Tad Hendrickson (2011)
My host's buoyant folk-dance teacher, Moustafa, has been heroically driving us around the West Bank showing us all kinds of things we wouldn't otherwise have had access to. ❋ Kate Lowenstein (2010)
There was another contender, too: Battles, whose math-rock intricacies arrive with overlays of folk-dance melodic zigzags and hints of loop and echo machines going haywire. ❋ Unknown (2008)
Determined scraps of folk-dance: out-takes, perhaps, from Leni Riefenstahl's Triumph of the Will. ❋ Unknown (2010)
ARMY BAND CONCERT, Hungarian folk-dance theme; take a picnic and lawn chairs. 6 p.m., ❋ Unknown (2010)
Fraternal and folk-dance groups, summer-camps, shuls, choruses, and other activities remained, but far smaller and more insular. ❋ Unknown (2010)
The program will also introduce New York audiences to the music of Alexander Tansman (1897-1986), who in his Paris exile composed spirited mazurkas that blend folk-dance motifs from his native Poland with elements of French Impressionism and the blues. ❋ Unknown (2010)
Today there are some three thousand Israeli folk dances, according to folk-dance instructors. ❋ Unknown (2009)
Her dances, which served as a source of inspiration for many folk-dance choreographers, are still danced today. ❋ Unknown (2009)
In folk-dance circles, the history of this movement is chronicled according to the dates of the national dance festivals, the first of which was held at Kibbutz Daliyyah in the hills of the Ephraim region in July, 1944. ❋ Unknown (2009)
The troupe appeared throughout the country, performing for soldiers during the War of Independence, at conferences and at the folk-dance festivals on Kibbutz Daliyyah. ❋ Unknown (2009)
Sharon was a member of the folk-dance delegation to the Jewish Youth Festival in Prague in 1947 and in Budapest in 1950. ❋ Unknown (2009)
Since then, folk-dance festivals have taken place throughout the country, a major one being that in Karmiel, planned by Yonatan Karmon, which has been held annually since 1988. ❋ Unknown (2009)
The greater involvement of men in the leadership of folk dance probably resulted from the importance society came to attribute to the activity as a source of enjoyment that had positive values; from the social mobility and world-wide travel associated with folk-dance instruction; and from the commercial possibilities inherent in choreographing and teaching folk dances and preparing Israeli groups for public performances. ❋ Unknown (2009)
The second national folk-dance festival, which took place at Kibbutz Daliyyah in July 1947, has remained in the collective memory because of the nighttime curfew that the British authorities imposed on the roads. ❋ Unknown (2009)
Fourteen folk-dance groups appeared at the first Daliyyah festival, performing international folk dances as well as original Israeli and Biblical ones. ❋ Unknown (2009)
At the fifth Daliyyah festival in 1968, leaders of the folk-dance movement expressed regret at the tendency toward ostentation and showy staging which characterized the folk dances performed. ❋ Unknown (2009)
Two further folk-dance festivals took place at Kibbutz Daliyyah, in 1951 and 1958. ❋ Unknown (2009)
Act I started with "Aunis," a 1979 French folk-dance piece by Jacques Garnier for three men set to a recorded accordion score. ❋ Sfmike (2007)
