Happy Spring and Happy Mother's Day!
I'm in Southern California enjoying the sun and seeing all of my family on a combined birthdays and Mother's Day celebration. The last few months has taken me all over. The trip to Turkey was amazing; we had a fantastic international group with participants from Argentina, Brazil, the US, Germany, France, the UK and Australia. It just keeps getting better and better each year and I can't wait for the next one!
ANAR DANA Berlin is coming along nicely...that is also a really interesting coming-together of women from all over Germany, Poland, Sweden and even (believe it or not) French Guiana! ANAR DANA San Francisco had it's final recitals in April with two full-house performances. Now we are all excited about starting a new project...the introduction will be in October.
ANAR DANA Seattle will be performing at our
fantastic NW Folklife Festival over Memorial Day weekend and then we have our end recitals on June 14th & 15th at the Broadway Performance Hall in Capitol Hill. Tickets are already on sale at
You can support our ANAR DANA projects by purchasing the 2011 concert DVD. This DVD
includes: Baluchi, Arab-Andalusian, Armenian, Turkish Spoon Dances, Classical Persian, Moroccan Sheikhat and Kurdish from the esemble and Rajasthani, Georgian, Sahraoui and Ottoman dance performances by me. We have made an upscale, all cardboard eco wallet with fantastic photos by Chris Yetter of the show. Please contact me with your location for retail as well as wholesale prices. mail@helene-eriksen.de
If you are interested in joining an ANAR DANA project near you, you will have three opportunities in the Fall:
ANAR DANA Seattle begins Sept. 21-22, 2013
ANAR DANA San Francisco begins Oct. 5-6, 2013
ANAR DANA Bavaria begins Nov. 30 - Dec. 1, 2013
You can follow ANAR DANA groups on Facebook here:
In August 2013 Paola Jara Vilches is organizing a big festival of traditional dance in Santiago, Chile. Keep posted for more informaiton about this big exciting event here:
festivaldanzastradicionales.blogspot.com
Wishing you peace, happiness and lots of dancing!
Helene
