Friday-Saturday-Sunday
May 18-19-20, 2011

Featuring Guest Teachers

Steve Kotansky

(Dances of the Balkans)

and

Erica Goldman

(Dance of Israel)

Live Music with Chubritza and

other local area musicians

Del Mar High School,

San Jose, California

TEACHERS

Steve Kotansky - Dances of the Balkans

Steve Kotansky was raised in the San Francisco area and moved to southern California after high school. He danced with Westwind, the SF Russian Dance Ensemble, the AMAN Folk Ensemble, and with Vince Evanchuk and his Ukrainian dance troupe.

Traveling in Germany for eight years, he worked with ethnic communities in Munich while teaching dance and performing, and co-founded the performing group GAJDA. He took advantage of his proximity to the Balkans and Eastern European countries to pursue his interest in the study and research of their dances. He also worked closely with dancers from Bucovina, a region currently split between Romania and the Ukraine. Steve taught all over Western Europe in the 1970s and organized folk dance workshops in Hungary, Macedonia, and Serbia.

When Steve returned to the United States he gave his first dance workshops. He has since taught at every major North American festival and camp and, with his wife Susan, continues to do so. He also serves as a consultant to several Hungarian folk ensembles and co-founded the GUZSALY Hungarian Dance Ensemble in NY. Steve has most recently been working with Roma, Macedonian, Bulgarian, and Albanian dance.

Erica Goldman – Israeli  

Erica Goldman began Israeli dancing in New York as a child alongsideher father, another folkdance fanatic. While a student at Brandeis University in Boston, she performed with several area Israeli dance troupes and was the director of B'yachad, the university's student group. She branched out into other kinds of folk dance as a member of the Mandala Folkdance Ensemble. Erica danced with the Collage Dance Ensemble for a few years before moving to Los Angeles, and competed with them at the Golden Karagöz Folk Dance Competition in Turkey in 2003.

In 2004, Erica spent the summer as the dance director of Camp Alonim at the Brandeis-Bardin Institute, a Jewish overnight camp where Israeli dancing is truly an obsession among the campers. She was hooked. After working for nearly eight years for a software company in Boston, she quit her job and moved to L.A. and has been teaching Israeli dance full-time ever since. She currently performs with the Keshet Chaim Dance Ensemble, runs a weekly Israeli dance session, and teaches dance at New Community Jewish High School.

SCHEDULE

COSTS

Download the Registration Form for complete details, but the basics are:

Hotel accommodations must be booked separately. No meals are provided except the Installation Lunch (please reserve on the Registration Form).

SYLLABUS

If you provide us with your email when you register, we will send you a PDF of the syllabus during the week leading up to Statewide. If you prefer a printed syllabus, mark the Registration from accordingly and add $5 to your total.

DVD

A DVD will be prepared during Statewide. A copy will be mailed to you within 30 days of the end of Statewide. The cost is $20. You may pay for it in advance when you register, or you may pay for it when you arrive.

T-SHIRT

We will have a commemorative t-shirt for sale through the pre-registration form and a limited number available the weekend of the event. We will have t-shirts for both men and women. As of the date this was posted, we had not selected the color. To get a peek at the design, click here.

VENUE

Del Mar High School1224 Del Mar Avenue

San Jose, CA 95128-3572

Below is a view from the parking lot looking at the gymnasium where we will be dancing. Two side-by-side gymnasiums will be used on Friday night. The smaller gym will feature ‘kafana-style’ live music, while recorded music will be played in the larger gym. Teaching by our featured teachers will be in the large gym. Saturday night we will all gather again in the large gym for live music with Chubritza and the Federation's 70th Birthday Bash!

DIRECTIONS

From San Jose Airport GET MAP

            Take Highway 87 (Guadalupe Parkway) southbound, going past downtown San Jose

            Merge onto Highway 280 northbound

            Take the Race Street/Southwest Expressway exit and merge onto Southwest Expressway

            At the light at Stokes Avenue, turn right over the light-rail tracks

            At the next corner, Del Mar Avenue, turn right.

            The school is on your left.

From North Bay on Highway 880 GET MAP

            From Highway 880 southbound, take Bascom Avenue exit, turn left (south) at the end of the off-ramp.

            Continue on Bascom approx. 2 miles to Leon Drive (look for Sam’s Bar-B-Que).

            The first cross-street is Del Mar Avenue; turn right.

            The school is on your left.

From the east and Highway 280 northbound GET MAP

            From Highway 280 northbound, take the Race Street/Southwest Expressway exit,

            Merge onto Southwest Expressway.

            At the light at Stokes Avenue, turn right over the light-rail tracks

            At the next corner, Del Mar Avenue, turn right.

            The school is on your right.

From the south on Highway 17 northbound GET MAP

            From Highway 17 northbound, take the Hamilton exit east.

            Turn left (north) at the light at Bascom Avenue, approx. 1/4 mile.

            Continue on Bascom to the light at Stokes Avenue and turn right.

            The first cross-street is Del Mar Avenue; turn left.            

            The school is on your right.

From the west, San Francisco, and farther north on Highway 280 southbound GET MAP

            From Highway 280 southbound, take the Highway 17 southbound exit (toward Santa Cruz)

            Take the Hamilton Exit east.

            Turn left (north) at the light at Bascom Avenue, approx. 1/4 mile.

            Continue on Bascom to the light at Stokes Avenue and turn right.

            The first cross-street is Del Mar Avenue; turn left. 

            The school is on your right.

HOST HOTEL

www.campbell-inn.com/

The Campbell lnn is a mile and a half from the dance hall at Del Mar High School. From the school, drive south on Bascom Avenue to Campbell Avenue and turn right (west). We have arranged for a special price for Statewide attendees: $89 a day, double occupancy, with a king-sized bed and breakfast is included! (Want separate double beds? Just $99) When calling or emailing to make reservations, ask for "The Folk Dance Federation Special."

Another hotel option is The Pruneyard Plaza Hotel, which is slightly closer to the dance venue, but also more expensive. Both hotels are close to The Pruneyard, a shopping plaza which includes a dozen restaurants, a movie theater, Barnes & Noble, Trader Joe’s, etc.

RESTAURANTS AND EATERIES

Almost too many to list here! This is a short sampling of eateries within two miles of the dance venue.

OTHER ATTRACTIONS IN THE AREA

In the event you want to bring non-dancing family members, there are plenty of things to do:

Winchester Mystery House

Silicon Valley Tech Museum

Children’s Discovery Museum

Santana Row Shopping Center

Movie theaters at The Pruneyard

Santa Cruz Beach and Boardwalk

Numerous wineries in the surrounding mountains

Downtown Campbell Farmer’s Market (Sunday morning)

Miles of walking trails leading north and south along Guadalupe Creek

HOW STATEWIDE GOT THE NAME
"DANCE TO YOUR HEART'S DELIGHT"

The Santa Clara Valley where San Jose is located was once called the Valley of Heart's Delight. Where you now see miles and miles of homes, office buildings, and shopping malls laced together by asphalt highways, there were once miles and miles of orchards laced together by dirt roads! With its mild climate and rich soil, the Santa Clara Valley was the grocery store for most of the surrounding communities when it came to produce. It was said that the soil was so fertile you could stick a branch torn from a tree into the ground and the next year it would bear fruit!

The label for a can of apricots that you see above was the inspiration for Statewide 2012 in San Jose. We shared the label design with the Federation's ace graphic designer Susan Gregory and she came up with the beautiful advertisements you have seen.

We hope you will all put May 18-19-20, 2012 on your calendars and plan to Dance to Your Heart's Delight at Statewide 2012 in San Jose.

– The Statewide 2012 Committee