Dance of the Month - November 2010

Below is a video of November's Dance. The dance is called "Me'ohav ad HaShamaim" and it is choreographed by Dudi Barzilay

This dance was suggested by Tania from Whanganui.



The "teaching" video for this dance can be seen at the preceding link.

Happy dancing everyone!

Rafi is Coming - Pacific Itinerary 2010

We are all rather excited that Rafi Ziv is coming to New Zealand in October. Turns out he'll be moving on to Australia after that. Below are the details of his stay.

New Zealand National Camp

Friday 22 - Monday 25 October 'Labour Weekend'
Machol Pacifica
Nelson College for Girls, in the heart of Nelson City,
South Island, New Zealand
www.macholpacifica.org.nz

Melbourne, Australia

Friday 29 - Sunday 31 October
Machol Partner Dance Camp
Billeting is available. Location: Peninsular Golf Club in Frankston 45 minutes from the city
www.machol.org.au

Monday 1 November
Hora Israeli Dancing - 'Circle & Partner Workshop' 8 -12pm
www.hora.com.au

Camp is Coming!

Hi dancers,

Registration forms for camp are now on the website. Please print off and send one per candidate with your payment.

Meals will again be prepared for us by Linda and her team who cooked up a delectable banquet last camp. To cater for a range of tastes a meat, fish and vegetarian dish will be offered together with salads for each evening.

Thank you so much to each of you who have made donations toward camp costs, we are very appreciative of your support.

A new development also, Rafi will continue on to teach in Melbourne at the Machol Partners Camp the following weekend. Details soon on www.machol.org.au.

Look forward to hearing from you

Nelson dancers

Matti's Workshops - the "Where" and the "When"

Hi Everybody,

As many of you know, Matti Goldschmidt will be visiting New Zealand soon.  While he is here, he'll be holding a series of workshops around the country.  Below are the details:

Thursday 11th Feb.
evening class
Auckland Israeli dance Group

Saturday 13th Feb.
 9am to 1pm
Ruratanian's class (also in Auckland)

Monday 15th Feb
evening class
Hamilton Israeli Group

Tuesday 16th Feb
evening class
Tauranga Dance Group

Saturday 20th Feb
1pm to 5pm
Wellington Israeli Group

Monday 22nd Feb
evening class
Christchurch Israeli Group

Wednesday 24th Feb
evening class
Nelson Israeli Group

For further details please contact the appropriate dance group leaders or Marcia
Trask 04 386 3658 / 027 220 1072

Best Regards

Marcia

Starting 2010 with Style

After a break from dance that was both too long (I love dance) and too short (my holidays are coming to an end), Auckland group had our first session for 2010 on Wednesday night. Needless to say we started the year off in style. When it comes to new dances, nothing is quite as good as learning a dance directly from the choreographer. We were extremely lucky to have Peter Leipnik from Melbourne visit our group. He is the choreographer of Nirkod Lashalom and he taught this dance to us. Said dance is beautiful and it is sure to become one that we will dance often. The dance also has the rare distinction of being nominated as a finalist in the Karmiel Festival Dance Competition 2008. Whilst the dance did not win the competition, it is the first time that a created outside Israel has made it onto the shortlist. Of course we also danced a number of our old favourites and some of the new material from last year's camp. The only problems were getting to class through truly horrendous traffic due to an "incident" on the motorway and being totally drenched after dance due to the high humidity. For those of you "out there" who are wondering when exactly we plan on meeting, a copy of our nifty dance calendar is below. Clicking on it will let you see the larger version. Here's hoping that the rest of our year is as great our last session. Jenni in Auckland