10th Annual Lunar New Year Festival

The Cerritos Folk Dancers’ Tenth Annual Lunar New Year Festival features dance workshops by master instructor Daniela Ivanova-Nyberg, lessons by Sue Chen and Wen Chiang, dance party, and a traditional New Year’s Lion dance to celebrate the Year of the Mouse!

There will be finger food available. You are encouraged to bring food or non-alcoholic beverage to share with other dancers.

If you would like to receive the syllabi through the email, free of charge, please sign up at the front desk or let Wen Chiang know.

Video recording is not allowed except by the authorized CFD photographers. Video taping will be available online after the festival. Sign up at the front desk or let Wen Chiang know in order to be sure to receive the links to the videos.

There will be a name badge for each attendee. Please return the name badge before you leave. When the name badge is returned, any of the first one hundred payers will receive a red-envelope, which contains a small amount of currency.

After the festival, we will have dinner together in honor of the master teacher. The restaurant and the cost are to be announced in the festival. You are welcome to join the dinner together. To reserve the seat, please sign up at the front desk, before 4 p.m. We used to have close to thirty people come to the dinner. This time, we are going to set a limit to twenty people. Please sign up early.

Let’s dance together and celebrate the Year of the Mouse in the festival.

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For more details contact CerritosFolkDancers@gmail.com or Sue at (562) 338-2298

Daniela Ivanova-Nyberg

Daniela Ivanova-Nyberg, Ph.D. is an accomplished, professional folk dance teacher, choreographer and researcher of Bulgarian dance in Bulgaria and in the United States. In addition, she is a very gifted choreographer, and also a researcher of the South Slavic folk dance culture. Daniela graduated from the Institute of Music and Choreography, Sofia, and also from the Sofia University “St. Kl. Ohridski,” with MA degrees in Philosophy and Cultural Studies. This broad educational background gives her the unique opportunity to combine theory and practice, research, teaching and performance in her very extensive works. Since 2003 Daniela has made teaching tours to the U.S., appearing in more than 40 States of the US and in over 400 workshops. Read more…