2010 Summer NL Editors Desk

From the Editor's Desk

This issue of the "German Folk Dancer^"takes the place of issue 2 of Vol.15, 2010. Between March and April I had seven surgical procedures on one of my eyes and spent April and May flat on my stomach. However, at the end of the year we will have made up all of the issues.

^{It is with great regret that we had to cancel our annual weekend
workshop at Folklore Village, Dodgeville, Wl. Due to the fact that
there were no hotel rooms available anywhere, our registration was too
low to proceed with the event. Dodgeville usually is a very quite town
and there never was a problem with lodging. So it came as a surprise
that on the weekend of the 13-14-15th of Aug. the town expected a
bicycle race attended by roughly 1500 participants.}

^{News from Germany: In 2012 the DGV (deutsche Gesellschaft fur
Volkstanz) and the Deutsche Trachtenverband ( German Costume Ass.) is
planning a combined Bundestrachten und Volkstanzfest (Federal Costume
and Folk Dance festival) in Altenburg, Thüringen. This event would
replace the separate Bundes-volkstanzfest in the format of past
festivals. Perhaps we should begin to plan now for our participation ?}

^{Where, who, what: After the death of Walter Koegler, the
business is being carried on by Reinhold Frank. It will continue to
supply books, CDs, tapes etc. For catalogue contact:
tanzverlag(a)tanzfamilie.de . The internet address is www.tanz-koegler.com.}

^{Another supplier of dance material is the 'Heimatkulturwerk of
the DJO Deutsche Jugend in Europa (German Youth in Europe) Besides CDs
for folk dance and folk music, they also carry sheet music, song
books, dance directions, help for cultural work in youth groups and
much more. They publish a comprehensive catalogue and can be reached
under 'DJO Deutsche Jugend in Europa1, Fax 07-11/62- 51- 68 E-mail:
zentrale(a)djobw.de . See their website at www.heimatkulturwerk.de}

^{Herbsttanzfest
in Berlin (Fall Folk Dance Festival)}

^{The Folklore dance group Berlin- Kopenick invites all enthusiastic
folk dancers from far and near to the 37. folk dance festival in
Berlin from the 17th to the 19th of Sept. 2010.}

^{Two years ago over 250 folk dancers had come to Berlin for the 36th
dance festival to meet each other, to dance, to sing and to celebrate.
For many years this festival had been organized by the Reinickendorfer
Tanzkreis under the direction of Volkhart Jahnert. Martin Strofer and
his musicians will be responsible for the musical portion of the
festival.}

^{On Friday evening the festival will open with a varied program of all
participating groups. On Saturday morning are scheduled to dance in
the old town of Kopenick where the public will have an opportunity to
participate. The high light of the festival is the grand dance
afternoon - again the Sporthall of Schoneberg. Sunday before noon the
groups will again dance with Helga Preuss and Annie Herman in the Old
town of Kopenick. The crowning event will be the dancing of all the
groups together on the Schlossplatz (the castle square).}

^{For more information, contact Anita and Wolfgang Berk (Tel. 011 49 30
656 80 16) E-mail:}^{anita.berk(a)arcor.de}

KPG