| Australian |
John & Aylwen
Garden |
John Garden has 22 years experience as a dance teacher, researcher, choreographer and musician. He has displayed, directed, played for and led dancing at more than 1,000 events; produced 8 CDs of dance music; written several dance/music books and has on the way 10 books tracing the evolution of western European social dance over a period of 450 years. He and his wife Aylwen direct the Canberra-based Earthly Delights Historic Dance Academy, running 2 streams of weekly classes, theme balls and yearly festivals celebrating historic music, dance and costumes. They are joined by Sally and Peter Taylor on piano and guitar. Sally is a professional piano teacher and experienced dancer who will transport us back to the days so much dancing was set to pianoforte. As will be borne out in their workshops, they all have a special love of Australian bush-traditions. The week after Bundanoon, on 18 June, they have a ball in Canberra to which all are welcome, and on the 19 June John and family are off for 8 weeks leading, teaching and studying dance in North America and Europe. |
Couples Dances from 19th C Australia
Saturday 9.30 am
Bundanoon Hall
Set Dances from 19th C Australia
Saturday 3.45 pm
Bundanoon Hall |
Jan & Vic Orloff |
Vic and Jan Orloff are key organisers in the Queensland Colonial and Heritage Dancers.
To further the love of dancing and keep our traditions alive, they research, conduct workshops and hold monthly Bush Dances in Brisbane.
After Norfolk Island in 2008, and Bundanoon 2009 they are looking forward to Bundanoon
2011. They will be presenting a mixture of traditional and
contemporary quadrilles and dances that have disctinctive
variations in Qld. Their Qld Nut Quadrille is a five figure dance paying tribute to Queensland nuts (no not like Bjelke-Petersen - the bush tucker ones). |
Queensland Quadrilles
Saturday 2.00 pm
Bundanoon School Hall
Queensland Dances
Monday 9.30 am
Bundanoon School Hall |
Don Richmond |
Long-standing Bush Music Club President Don is no stranger to the dance floor and to the caller's mike. He has a broad repertoire of Bush dances both traditional and contemporary. |
Odd Drills
Sunday 2.00 pm
Bundanoon Hall |
Sally Leslie |
Sally in an earlier incarnation led weekly workshops at the Bush Music Club and was a leader of the Australian Traditional Dance Group. She currently calls with No Such Thing and eats Magic Puddin'. |
Bush Dance Basics
Sunday 11.15 am
Bundanoon School Hall
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John Short |
John’s interest in traditional dancing began in 1981. In recent years John has been a regular contributor to dance writing competitions where his dances have won several prizes. His dances have been taught in various parts of Australia as well as Scotland, Ireland and even Italy.
John is currently chairman of the Bush Music Club’s Dance Workshops committee. |
More 21st Century Quadrilles
Saturday 11.15 am
Bundanoon Club |
Gwen Burke |
Gwen has been a valuable member of Wongawilli Colonial Dance Club for 22 years. Here she has enjoyed the roles of shared dance co-ordinator, dance caller and performed in the dance display group. |
Quadrille Workshop
Sunday 3.45 pm
Bundanoon School Hall |
Arthur Kingsland |
Arthur, and his partner Julia work collectively as "Celtic Eclectic". Arthur does the actual calling, while Julia helps keep him on track, correcting any finer points when needed.
They teach a wide variety of Celtic traditions including Australian Colonial, Irish Set dancing, English Country, Scottish Country and American Contra dancing. They are particularly known for teaching of interesting variations and challenging dances from a range of Celtic traditions. |
Challenging New Australian & English Dances
Sunday 9.30 am
Bundanoon School Hall
Yankee Dutch Crossing & Cross Celtic Dances.
Monday 11.15 am
Bundanoon School Hall |
| Ballroom |
Bruce Lemin |
Bruce started ballroom dancing 33 years ago, going to his first bush dance 3 years later. He has gold and higher medals in the 3 main ballroom styles, and founded the Monaro Colonial Dancers in 1990. Bruce firmly believes that dancing – and learning to dance – should be fun. |
Whirly Waltzes and Rapid Rotations
Saturday 11.15 am
Bundanoon School Hall
Other Ballroom Dances
Sunday 2.00m
Bundanoon School Hall
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| Irish Dance |
Margaret & Bill
Winnett |
Two of Australia’s foremost Irish dance teachers, Margaret & Bill Winnett, have danced together for over 45 years and have travelled to Ireland on fourteen occasions to collect and research the traditional Irish dances they teach during their workshops. Together they teach and lead the Sydney Irish Ceili Dancers, now in its 53rd year, and their team of dancers is testament to the quality of the Winnett’s teaching and presentation skills.
Margaret & Bill have the ability to teach dancing in a fun way yet have everyone dancing to an exacting standard and enjoying the experience. Join them for their workshops on Saturday and Monday.
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Traditional Irish Dancing
Saturday 2.00 pm
Bundanoon Hall
Monday 11.15 am
Bundanoon Hall |
Paul Carr |
Paul is convenor of Set In Their Ways, an Irish Set Dance display
group based in Canberra. |
Irish Set Dancing
Sunday 11.15 am
Bundanoon Hall |
| Scottish Dance |
Anthony Simon |
Anthony is a qualified Scottish Country Dance teacher with the Royal Scottish Country Dance Society (Edinburgh, Scotland). He is currently president of the RSCDS Sydney Branch.
In Australia he has taught at national level and is a guest teacher for a number of the clubs in and around Sydney.
Anthony has had a strong interest in ceilidh dancing for many years and is well known, particularly in the ex-pat Scottish community, for his ability to get a crowd on the floor, dancing and fully enjoying themselves. |
Scottish Ceilidh Dance
Sunday 9.30 am
Bundanoon Hall |
Jan Clark |
Jan discovered Scottish Country Dance in the mid 1980s thanks to Tony Northey who will be known to many of you. It has been a driving passion in her life ever since, chewing up vast amounts of time but also providing vast amounts of fun and enjoyment, an experience shared by many of you involved in various forms of dance. She loves the social nature of Scottish Country Dance, the stirring quality of the music and the ever-varying patterns in the dances.
Early in the nineties she began to play a more active role, encouraging others to share her passion. After completing her RSCDS Preliminary Examination she took on regular teaching for the RSCDS Canberra & District Branch, and in 2000 completed her full RSCDS teaching certificate. Since 2005 she has taken on teaching the Scottish Country Dance Club of Canberra classes. |
Tartan Tempos
Saturday 2.00 pm
Bundanoon Club
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| English |
Colin Towns |
Colin first performed at a National Folk Festival (Melbourne, Easter 1986) and since then has presented numerous dance workshops all over Australia, including a wonderful Morris tour (1993) of Darwin/Kakadu; and three very successful dance workshop weekends in Canberra. Forty people doing Sailor’s Hornpipe - a sight for sore feet, or was it a soaring feat?
Other dance ventures have included Dance directorship of the International Dance Group “Skips”; Maypole dancing for “Life Be In It”; an honorary member of 3 all-women Clog sides; and Morris dancing goal umpires on ABC’s “Live and Sweaty”. |
Playford – 1650-1730 “The English Dancing Master”
Saturday 11.15 am
Bundanoon Hall
English Ceilidh Dances
Sunday 3.45 pm
Bundanoon Club
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Paul Carr |
Paul has been dancing and teaching English Morris dancing since 1984 both locally and internationally. He has been Foreman (Teacher) and Squire (Head Honcho) of Mucky Mountains Morris, St Helens, UK (1988-1992) and Molonglo Mayhem Morris, Canberra, Australia (1992-2006). Both of these sides he formed with his wife Leslie. |
Morris Dances
Saturday 3.45 pm
Bundanoon Club |
| Scandanavian |
Roger Gifford &
Christine Ridgway |
Roger and Christine’s combined folk-dance experience sums to over 50 years. Favourite styles include Scottish Country, Australian Bush and Colonial, New England Contra, Square, Irish Set, German and especially dances of the Nordic countries. Roger has participated over the years in display teams of German, Colonial, Israeli, Contra, and Scandinavian folk dance. They have been leading the Canberra Scandinavian Dance Group – sCanDans – for over a decade. In that capacity they have run many Nordic dance workshops and performances at the National Folk Festival and several other folk festivals and Scandinavian national events in Australia. Also in combination with the Finnish Folk dance Group - Revontulet, the Sydney Swedish group – Linnea, and the Finnish folk dance band - Salmiakki Pellimannit, they performed at the Nordlek Folk Festival that was held in Denmark. |
Nordic Folk Dance
Saturday 9.30 am
Bundanoon School Hall |
| German |
Jim Williams &
Ingrid Rehle-Williams |
Jim Williams lived, danced and sang in Bavaria for 8 years. Here he introduced and taught to the locals the joys of bush dancing and learned the traditional dances of the region.
Ingrid is a native Bavarian and has been dancing almost all of her life.
Ingrid and Jim have presented Bavarian dance workshops at the National Folk Festival, Cobargo Folk Festival and the Illawarra Folk Festival.
Together they will teach you the style and fun of easy to learn Bavarian couples dances. |
Bavarian Couples Dances
Sunday 11.15 am
Bundanoon Club
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| American Contra |
Jeanette Mill |
Jeanette Mill is co-founder of the Canberra Contra Club. She calls, composes dances, plays piano and feet in the band, and occasionally disappears to New England, USA, where contra is a thriving, evolving, innovating tradition. She has called dances in the US, and had the thrill of calling to some of contra's top musicians. |
Contra - addiction
Sunday 3.45 pm
Bundanoon Hall |
Julie Bishop |
Julie Bishop, a dancer since '77, has taught contras for over 20 years, since the Bishops spent two years in the San Francisco Bay area, dancing to great bands at the fortnightly Palo Alto contra. For some years afterwards she ran Sydney's only Saturday contras, four nights a year. Over the years she has had repeat contra workshops at many festivals, including NFF. Julie also has fun teaching contras and English dance to a weekly seniors class, and is the popular caller for the annual Sydney, Gosford and Newcastle contra dances.
Julie and her husband, Alex met at Sydney Playford Dance Group in 1978, and danced there for some years; later teaching the dances to groups or at festivals. In April this year they were part of "Regency Ryebuck", calling and playing for the Central Coast's well attended "Jane Austen Theme" dance. |
England Old and New
Saturday 3.45 pm
Bundanoon School Hall
New England
Monday 9.30 am
Bundanoon Hall |
| Estonian Dance |
Madis & Tiina Alvre |
Following their popularity last year Madis abd Tiina are back.
Madis Alvre commenced Estonian folk dancing in 1961. He has organised, choreographed and directed performances for Folkloric Festivals and at the National Folk Festival. He has directed major Estonian cultural folk dancing events in Sydney and Melbourne. During visits to Estonia he has undertaken first-hand research in Estonian traditions.
Madis has received awards from the Estonian Society of Sydney and from the Government of the Republic of Estonia, for his contribution to the perpetuation of Estonian cultural traditions in Australia. |
Estonian Dances
Sunday 2.00 pm
Bundanoon Club |
