Thank you

Thank you to everyone who participated in our dance classes this week. They were a lot of fun.

We are going to take a little break for the holidays, but we will be back out with our dance shoes on in January.

On January 7th we are having our second traditional party dances class. We have a new version of the schottische to share with you.

In the meantime, have a happy and healthy holiday season!

A good workout

Thank you to Mani for a fun Bhangra class on Monday. It was a great workout.

Our next class is on December 18th. We will be reviewing popular social dances that you may see at upcoming Christmas and New Year's parties around town.

And do not forget to join us for our special Get Active event at the Baker's Centre on December 20th.

See you there and keep on dancing!

Mark your calendar

Bhangra

Join us next week for Bhangra. Monday, December 10th, from 7-9 at the Calvary Church basement.

Get Active...and Dance!

We have some special, free, Get Active events coming up. So mark your calendar and come out and join us.

• December 20th - Stretching and dance steps for Seniors - Baker's Centre.

We are also organizing a special Bhangra class. The date is still being confirmed.

Last class in November

Our last class for November will be on November 27th at the Anglican Church.

Get Active!

We have some Get Active events coming up. Watch this space for more information.

Get Active NWT

More classes coming up

Our next class is on Tuesday, November 20th, at the Anglican Church. See you then!

Monday night class

Remember - This week's class will be held on Monday, November 12th at the Calvary Church.

Happy Birthday!

October 25th is the 2nd anniversary of our first class. Happy Birthday to us!

Photo by April Pethybridge on Unsplash

Yankadi-Macrou Revisited

For our next few classes we will be revisiting one of the dances that we learned last year: Yankadi-Macrou.

See you on the the 23rd.

Put on your dancing shoes...

...And join us tomorrow (October 16th) at the Anglican Church basement. 7:00 pm - 9:00 pm.

Yearly Calendar - all on one page

Here is a printable calendar showing where and when we are dancing from now until the end of May.

YKEFDC 2018-19 Calendar

Thanksgiving Dance

Happy Thanksgiving.

Yes, we will be dancing on Thanksgiving Monday (October 8th). And why not? Thanksgiving is a harvest festival. Harvest festivals are held by many cultures around the world, and many of those festivals include dancing as part of the celebrations.

So, let us celebrate the fruits of the harvest with a little international folk dancing.

Join us at the Calvary Church basement, 7:00 - 9:00 pm.

Dance Class Tonight!

We are starting October off right - with a a dance class! Join us at the Calvary Church Basement at 7:00 pm.

Please note our schedule for October:

Monday, October 1st - Calvary Church
Monday, October 8th - Calvary Church (So we can dance off some of that Turkey)
Tuesday, October 16th - Anglican Church
Tuesday, October 23rd - Anglican Church
Tuesday, October 30th - Anglican Church

New Dance Day

We had a lot of fun last week trying not one, but two new dances.

BUT WAIT! THERE'S MORE!!!!

Join us next Tuesday, September 25th, to learn Cshebogar, a Hungarian/Roma dance.

To get a preview on YouTube, click here or here or here. The choreography does not exactly match any of the videos, so we may just end up coming up with our own, Yellowknife, spin on it.

The benefits of dance

CBC's The Passionate Eye has a new documentary this week on aging. One of the aspects they looked at was the effect of dancing on the elderly. The study found that dancing was better at building muscle strength than a conventional gym workout.

The study was small, but continues a trend in research that shows that dancing is not just fun -- it is really good for us too.

For an abstract of the study, click here: http://www.physoc.org/proceedings/abstract/Proc%20Physiol%20Soc%2035PC31

September classes

Our next classes will be held on Tuesday, September 18th and September 25th at the Anglican Church basement. See you at 7:00 pm!

The dances we have planned for next week are from Serbia and Sweden. Here is a preview:

• Savila Se Bela Loza
• Youtube
• Youtube (dance instructional video)
• Fjaskern
• Youtube (low resolution video)
• Youtube (with instructions)
• Youtube (slightly different with couples linking elbows)

Yellowknife Community Showcase

Find us at Table 17 at the Community Showcase. Wednesday, September 12th from 6:00-8:00 pm at the Community Arena.

For more information, see the City of Yellowknife's website: http://calendar.yellowknife.ca/Event/Index/3eb1388f-3ff6-4617-8c42-a93500e29d41.

First class on Monday

Our first class for the 2018-19 season is on Monday the 10th at the Anglican Church basement. 7-9 pm. See you there!

Welcome to our 3rd Season of Dance!

Our first class will be held on Monday, September 10th at the Anglican Church. We will be reviewing a number of our dances from the past two years.

Our other September classes will be held on September 18th and September 25th. These classes will be in the Anglican Church basement as well.

Our schedule for the rest of the season is still to be confirmed.

See you there!

Annual General Meeting

Our Annual General Meeting will be held on July 17th. Contact us for location information if you wish to attend.

Annual General Meeting

We are starting to plan our annual general meeting. Please let us know if July 17, 27, or 31st works best for you.

Class tonight

Our second-to-last dance class of the season is tonight. Please bring your skirt, if you have one. Our new corporate sponsor is expected and may be taking pictures for their newsletter.

Happy Mother's Day

Happy Mother's Day to all of the Moms out there who love to dance!

Our next class is on Tuesday the 15th at the Anglican Church.

See you on Monday

Our next class is on Monday at the Calvary Church.

Chicken Dance

No, we did not dance the Chicken Dance tonight, but we did talk about it.

To follow up on the conversation, according to Wikipedia, the Chicken Dance was originally composed in Switzerland, and came to North America via Germany. Those of you who remembered the Emeralds were not far off: their recording of it was responsible for its popularity in Canada in the 1980s.

Happy May Day!

We do not have a maypole to dance around, but we will be dancing tonight. See you at the Anglican Church basement, 7:00 pm!

Wedding dances

We had a great time dancing at the wedding last night. Congratulations to the newlyweds.

We whirled around with La Bastringue and then followed it up with a couple of Kolomeyka's, complete with audience participation!

Our next class is on Tuesday at the Anglican Church. See you there!

Dance! Dance! Dance!

Happy National Dance Week

We are meeting tonight at the Anglican Church basement.

There will be a Kolomeyka practice session from 6:00-7:00 for anyone who is interested.

Our regular class starts at 7:00 pm.

For those of you who are participating in Saturday's performance: we will be doing a costume check in preparation for the performance on Saturday. Please bring your skirt & white blouse. For those of you who do not have skirts, slacks and a white shirt.

See you there!

Keep on Dancing

A big thank you to Cheyanna for showing us how to jig last week!

Our next class is Monday, April 16th at the Calvary Church. See you there!

National Dance Week and International Dance Day 2018

National Dance Week is April 22-29

Celebrate with international folk dancing. We will recognize National Dance Week at our April 24th class. 7-9 pm at the Anglican Church hall.

National Dance Week is organized by the Canadian Dance Assembly. 

International Dance Day is on April 29th.

From the International Dance Day website:

International Dance Day was created by the Dance Committee of the International Theatre Institute ITI, the main partner for the performing arts of UNESCO. Since its creation in 1982, the International Dance Committee and the International Theatre Institute ITI select an outstanding dance personality to write a message for International Dance Day each year. This day is a celebration day for those who can see the value and importance of the art form “dance”, and acts as a wake-up-call for governments, politicians and institutions which have not yet recognised its value to the people and to the individual and have not yet realised its potential for economic growth. 

Class schedule for April and May

We have confirmed the dates for our April and May classes.

We will be dancing at the Anglican Church on the second Tuesday of the month, except for April 17th and May 8th.

We will be dancing at the Calvary Church on Monday, April 16th and Monday, May 7th.

You are never to old to dance!

Check out this CBC news article about a new ballerina in her 70s! If she can do it, so can we!

79-year-old ballet dancer finds way to live out childhood dream

Join us on Tuesday for more dancing. We will be working on Yankadi-Macrou and Khosid Wedding Dances.

In like a lion

It's March, and we are still dancing. Join us this Tuesday, March 6th, at the Anglican Church.

In other news, our friends at the Aurora Ukrainian Dancers are holding their spring concert on March 9th and 10th. It is sure to be a good show!

NACC also has another event coming up that looks really interesting. Niyaz is a multimedia performance of middle-eastern poetry, music . . . and dance! Maybe we will pick up some moves! March 24th.

Thank you!

A big thank you to Marlies and Aline for teaching us to belly dance last week. We all had so much fun!

Dance Schedule Update

Our class dates for February and March have been posted on our calendar. Please check it out!

February 13th will be a special class! We will be trying out Belly Dancing! Just in time for Valentine's Day! (Wink, wink, nudge, nudge, say no more)

Next class

Our next class will be Tuesday, January 23rd, at the Anglican Church basement.

Thank you to Alicia for designing and making our new twirly skirts!

Class Tonight

Join us at the Anglican Church tonight! We will be visiting Russia and reviewing dances that we have already learned.

Last Chance to Perfect your Polka

We will be holding one more Pre-Malanka polka session on Monday, January 8th at the Calvary Church basement, 7-9 pm. Put on your dancing shoes and polka with us!

Our schedule for the rest of 2018 is still to be determined. We will publish it as soon as we have confirmed the dates.