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A new English version of our Dancers’ Association website is what is new! On behalf of the volunteer website team of Adi Habad, chairman of Irgun Harokdim, Harry Couriel, website coordinator, Yardena Riegler, website manager, Vered Menashri, Hebrew site editor, Donny Gilor, site administrator and php programmer, Noah Glushakow-Smith, Hebrew translator/editor, and Jane Rosen, English site editor, welcome. We hope this website will become your regular source for dance information, and a place to express the opinions about dance issues from the point of view of the dancers. We encourage you to share in our excitement about this new endeavor by contributing your ideas. Notes from the Beginning by Rick in Philadelphia The girls in our 5th and 6th grade classes knew the Bar Mitzvah age was approaching and that they wanted to be sure to have dance partners for the receptions. We met after school at one of their apartments, spent hours playing the record “Goody, Goody” by Frankie Lymon and the Teenagers, and practiced to that great paced Lindy. As teenagers we watched and mimicked the dancers on Dick Clark’s “American Bandstand” and attended the dances in the school cafeteria or local Y. And so began my dance career... (click for more) Click for comments and correspondence. A Veteran Dancer’s Viewpoint of Karmiel Festival 2009 by Danny Ben Shitrit The three days of Karmiel Festival have come and gone; the annual celebration has been concluded. Festival organizers can show signs of relief while they look backward with pride. Indeed, there is a lot to be proud of! The festival went off safely and soundly with the teams assigned to the various activities performing their tasks in the best possible manner. The hundreds of thousands of visitors, who filled the town, undoubtedly enjoyed a charming, well maintained and welcoming place, a place where Karmiel citizens lived serenely in concert with the festival. We know that three days in which a town is packed with so many dancers and visitors are not to be passed at ease... Read more Click for comments and correspondence.
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