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Lithuanian festival excludes Yiddish dancers

Next July 6, more than 1,000 Lithuanian folk dancers decked out in authentic woven costumes, representing close to 40 dance ensembles, will perform the windmill, the scarf dance and other traditional dances at the XIII Lithuanian Folk Dance Festival, hosted for the first time in Los Angeles.

Flamenco and tango melodies strike Jewish chords

Ethan Margolis, co-founder of Arte y Pureza (Art and Purity), a Seville, Spain-based flamenco troupe, says three influences stand out as soon as you begin reading about flamenco: Sephardic, Arabic and Indian.

Concert shakes up the way people view belly dancing

Since she began her career in the 1970s, Suzy Evans has been on a mission to educate the public about a dance form \”that is so much more than what you might see in a restaurant or in a class.\” As the founder of the now 11-year-old International Academy of Middle Eastern Dance (IAMED), Evans is producing her fourth \”This Is Belly Dance!\” concert at the Ford Amphitheatre on Aug. 11.

Time for the last dance at folk dancing venue

Café Danssa opened for business in December 1965 on a nondescript block of West Los Angeles on Pico Boulevard. The name of the business was a morphing of the first three letters of Dani Dassa\’s first name and the last three letters of his last name.

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