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UPCOMING EVENT:

EDT at the FESTIVAL of NATIONS!

Heading to that other Great Minnesota Get-Together, the Festival of Nations this weekend?

EDT will be there, too!

Thursday and Friday School Program:

EDT dancers will represent Bulgaria, Costa Rica, Greece, and Lebanon.

EDT Folk Orchestra / Orkestar Bez Ime members Dee Langley and Katrina Mundinger will perform music from Bulgaria.

Hopefully your kids will get to see us there!

EDT performers at the FON this weekend (Friday night through Sunday):

Orkestar Bez Ime: Consisting of several EDT members, OBI is the house band on Saturday and will play Bulgarian music on Sunday!

Ukrainian Village Band: Colleen Bertsch, Stefan Iwaskewycz, Sydney Lefevre, Natalie Nowytski, Kim Salisbury and Jenny Schultz will be playing Ukrainian music throughout the weekend!

Dolina Polish Folk Dancers: John Czichray and Victoria Piorek will represent Poland as part of Dolina on Friday and Sunday!

S.G. Edelweiss St. Paul: Matt and Don La Course will represent Germany and Austria as part of Edelweiss (Sunday).

Szaszka: Colleen Bertsch also will represent Hungary as part of Szaska on Saturday and Sunday!

Check the festival schedule online for details! http://festivalofnations.com/entertainment/ 

PORTS of CALL: EDT's 36th Annual Spring Concert Series a HUGE SUCCESS!

Ethnic Dance Theatre Presents Ports of Call for its 36th Annual Spring Concert Series Featuring the Music and Dance of Brazil, Bulgaria, Costa Rica, Egypt, Greece, India, Iran, Latvia, Lebanon, Norway, and Turkey This past April 9-11, Ports of Call played to nearly sold out houses at the Ritz Theater in NE Minneapolis! It was a tremendous success!

We would like to THANK EVERYONE who helped out with and/or attended the show! You are part of what makes EDT such a cherished part of the TC arts community and our work at preserving and presenting world music and dance as art possible!

We will be taking a short break and then will begin rehearsals for our next season. . .We are already quite excited for what the next season has in store! WE WILL KEEP YOU UPDATED, but we don't want to spill the beans just yet!

No doubt other opportunities will arise to catch either EDT performing this summer or EDT performers doing their thing with their other groups! Check back here, we'll let you know soon about summer events!

OTHER NEWS:

New Collections in our Photo Gallery:

Photos from the weekend of the Virsky National Ensemble of Ukraine in the Twin Cities area.

Virsky 10/2009 @ Northrop & the Ukrainian Center

Photos from last season's Winter Dance Party (February 2009)!

Ethnic Dance Theatre's Winter Dance Party Feb., 2009

We added a Community Event Calendar!

Check it out here.

Is there an upcoming event in your ethnic and/or folk dance community that you would like to advertise on our site? Please write info@ethnicdancetheatre.com with your event announcement!

 

Video of the Small Cast Version of the Hutsul Suite!

This is video of a small cast (3 couples) version of our new Hutsul suite that was performed on June 7, 2009 as part of the Minneapolis Mosaic festival. Represented in this video is the men's dance Arkan (usually danced in a closed circle; we adjusted it for a performance involving only three men) and the couple's dance Hutsulka.

The full-cast (8 couple) version debuted on March, 2009 at the Fitzgerald Theatre in St Paul, Minnesota as the finale to our 35th Anniversary Spring Concert Series The Kaiser's Jubilee.

The Hutsul suite is an exciting new choreography for EDT; it is the fruit of Artistic Director Donald LaCourse and Dancer Stefan Iwaskewycz's research trip to Ukraine last summer.

Artistic Director Donald LaCourse recently commented,

"It was especially moving for me to see our new Hutsul suite make it to the stage. I feel that we were able to present the most authentic village interpretation of this culture ever seen in our area. The audience response was tremendous, and I know that everyone in the company felt a sense of accomplishment and pride as well!"

Click to read more about Don and Stefan's trip to Ukraine last summer.

Click here to visit their Hutsul Dance Project website; in particular, visit the Hustul Dance Project Video page for clips from our footage of dancing at weddings in Ukraine, including the dances Arkan and Hutsulka.

EDT on the 3 Minute Egg:

Click on the following to see a segment about EDT's 35th Anniverary Concert on the 3 Minute Egg, a blog about the arts in the Minneapolis-St Paul metro area.

The Kaiser's Jubilee a Great Success!

Thank you to everyone who attended our recent 35th Anniversary Concert at the Fitzgerald Theatre this past March 20-22, 2009; it was a pleasure to perform for you all!

Also thank you to everyone who volunteered before, during and after the show and who helped behind-the-scenes to bring this special show to the stage!

We will be posting photos and video from and a blog entry about The Kaiser's Jubilee in the coming weeks, so please check back again!

Thank you!

Previews of our upcoming show The Kaiser's Jubilee:

OPENING THIS WEEKEND (March 20-22)!!!

Concert Facts:

Did you know that?

Mumbai

Photo of the triumphal arch at the head of the harbor in Mumbai, The Gateway to India

The Gateway to India

Mumbai is one of the most populous cities in the world. It was built across seven islands & was controlled by various empires before the arrival of the first Europeans, the Portuguese. Control ultimately passed to the British who, beginning in the late 18th century, reshaped the city in a series of large-scale civil engineering projects. Under British control, Mumbai emerged as India’s most important center of commerce. Today, it is home to such institutions as the Reserve Bank of India & the National Stock Exchange of India, as well as numerous Indian and multinational corporations. In 1885 the first session of the Indian National Congress ("the Congress Party") was held in Mumbai, and in the 20th century Mumbai was a strong base of support for the Indian independence movement. The city is also the home of Bollywood, India’s film and TV industry. See our Indian suite in PORTS of CALL!

**If you know something interesting--including your own personal story--about a culture represented in our current season, please tell us about it here!

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