[Glaslyn] FW: Denton Celtic Dancers' Ceili

Gerita hpockets at verizon.net
Tue Apr 29 07:24:41 PDT 2003


Drat and darn!!  That's War Lord weekend!!

Gerita


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Thought some of you might be interested.

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From: CLIFF OZMUN [mailto:cliffhangar at prodigy.net]
Sent: Monday, April 28, 2003 1:11 PM
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Subject: Denton Celtic Dancers' Ceili


Dear Fellow Dance Enthusiasts:

Saturday, May 24th, 7 p.m., the Denton Celtic Dancers will host a ceili
(ceilidh) and social at the Senior Center in Denton.  We welcome dancers
ages 13 and up.  The cost of admission is only $5.00 and includes
refreshments and live music.  We will feature three styles of dance:
Scottish, Irish, and Welsh.  There will be a brief introduction to each of
the three styles at 6:30, so no experience is necessary.

I'm writing to you because I thought you would like to attend and/or help
distribute the information regarding the social to your membership,
students, etc.  Below (and attached) please find a release from the Denton
Celtic Dancers regarding this event.  If you have questions regarding
publicity, please contact me at this e-mail address or at the phone number
listed in the release.

Slainte!

Cliff Ozmun, Marketing, Denton Celtic Dancers

Media contact:              Cliff or Michelle Ozmun

                                    (940) 395-2408

                                    cliffhangar at prodigy.net





DENTON DANCERS HOST CELTIC SOCIAL DANCE





DENTON, Texas - Hitch up your kilts and lace up your ghillies, the Denton
Celtic Dancers invite the public, ages 13 and up, to attend a Celtic Social
dance May 24, 7:00 p.m.. at the Denton Senior Center, 509 N. Bell Avenue.



The event will feature a live band and refreshments.  Celtic dress is not
required, but attendees are definitely welcome to don appropriate regalia if
they desire, and comfortable, soft-soled shoes are highly recommended.
There will be a charge of $5.00 at the door.



Called a Ceilidh or Ceili (pronounced KAY-lee), respectively in Scotland or
Ireland, the dance will feature a mix of Scottish, Irish and Welsh dances
and requires no previous dance experience whatsoever.  Many of these dances
are fairly simple, a mixture of round the room dances and set dances and are
danced purely sociably.  In addition, the dancers will offer a 30-minute
class on styles and steps at 6:30 for beginners.



Scottish Country Dancing is done in sets, typically of three, four or five
couples, arranged either in two lines (men facing ladies) or in a square,
and involves the dancers dancing a sequence of set formations enough times
to bring them back to their starting positions.   The dances are all danced
to Scotland's wonderful music - reels, jigs and the quintessentially
Scottish strathspey - and are all great exercise - they beat a trip to the
gym any day!



There are several forms of Scottish Dancing around today, requiring
differing levels of ability and appealing to different sections of the
population.  Some have been exported all around the world, some are social,
some are competitive, some have been lost in Scotland, and are now making
their reappearance from the colonies to where they where taken by émigré's.
For a quick history of dancing in Scotland, visit
http://www.scottishdance.net/History.html.



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The Irish dance tradition is somewhat livelier and probably dates back more
than 2,000 years.  In the last decade, the explosion of popularity of Irish
dance owes most of its revival to the popular Irish dance company
Riverdance.  Today, jigs, reels, hornpipes, sets, half sets, polkas and step
dances are all performed. Solo dancing or step dancing first appeared at the
end of the eighteenth century.



Visitors are encouraged to join in, and with on the spot, informal
instruction, anyone can quickly master the first steps and soon share the
Irish enthusiasm for Irish dance.  To learn more about Irish dance, visit
http://www.irelandseye.com/dance.html.



Welsh folk dance has a broad tradition to call on - from fair dances to
those of the gentry, from the intricate pattern to the virtuoso stepping,
from the intimate to the gregarious - a complexity which is perhaps an
expression of the culture.  The dances vary from slow, courtly dances to the
faster fair dances and also include clog dances.



There are no special steps to learn in order to participate in the Welsh
folk dances being called at the Social, so this style will be of particular
interest to beginning dancers.  To learn more about the Welsh dance
tradition, visit http://fp.millennas.f9.co.uk/whughintro.htm on the
Internet.



For more information on either the upcoming Social or the Denton Celtic
Dancers, call (940) 321-0012 or visit http://www.dentoncelticdancers.com.



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