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DanceTour Russia 2006
Fiona Grant
March 5, 2006, 2:57 p.m. (Message 44483)
DANCETOUR Scottish Country Dancing Holiday in Russia 1-10 September 2006 Kuban Scottish Dancers invite you to come and dance with them in Krasnodar and then dip your tired toes in the warm Black Sea. Situated on the flat, fertile Kuban steppe, home of the Cossack horsemen, Krasnodar is the regional capital of the Kuban State. The young and very energetic dance group started by Ilona Velichko on her return from working in the UK, dances in the Palace of Culture, and has appeared on Russian television and at Festivals of Scottish Music. Just south of the city are the Caucasus Mountains, shielding the subtropical coast of the Black Sea from the cold Siberian north winds. There will be time to explore the countryside as well as share dancing expertise. Ceòl na hAlba will provide music for all occasions, and Helen and Ian Russell and Seonaid Anderson will encourage the dancers. Provisional Programme : Fri 1 Sept: Arrive Intourist Hotel, Krasnodar Sat 2 Sept: SCD Class or Market visit, City Tour/ Museums, Informal Dance Palace of Culture Sun 3 Sept: SCD Class or Art Gallery visit, Cossack Banquet, Russian Music and Dance Performance Mon 4 Sept: Coach drive to Yamal, on the Black Sea; Laze at hotel, swim in the Black Sea, Russian Quadrilles/ Soviet Dance Class Tues 5 Sept: SCD Class or pool, massage, spa, Tea tasting, woodland walks, Scottish Quadrilles/Shetland Reels/Scottish step dance Wed 6 Sept: All day trip to Terzihan mountain camp, Mountain walk, Bar-B-Q, Russian bath. Thur 7 Sept: SCD Class or beach, swim, Beach/boat trip Formal Dinner/ Cabaret Evening Fri 8 Sept: Travel back to Krasnodar Museum of Aeronautics and Space Exploration Informal Scottish Country Dance/ Ceilidh items Sat 9 Sept: SCD Class, Free time Kuban Highland Ball Sun 10 Sept: Kuban River picnic lunch, Departure People and Personalities: Ilona Velichko Trained as a linguist, and a competition ballroom dancer, Ilona came to Bristol University as a lectrice, and fell in love with Scottish Country dancing. To encourage her enthusiastic dancing friends back home in Krasnodar, she dreamed of bringing a Scottish Country Dance Band and teachers to meet them, and then decided to invite all her dancing friends from all round the world as well. Ilona has put together the itinerary, and will be our guide and translator and fixer during the holiday. Helen Russell Helen learned to dance in Scotland, north of Aberdeen, and attended highland dance Classes taught by Bobby Watson. She now teaches at the RSCDS Summer School and has a particular interest in ladies step dancing and tutoring candidates for the RSCDS teachers certificate. She is a member of the RSCDS Education & Training committee. Helen likes teaching dancing and thinks that the class ought to have fun! Ian Russell Ian Russell danced as a teenager at Breadalbane Academy in Perthshire, and became a real enthusiast while at the University of Aberdeen. More recently he has been a frequent member of both the Highland and SCD demonstration teams at the RSCDS Summer School. His main teaching interest lies with encouraging university students, especially those from overseas, to learn SCD. Seonaid Anderson Seonaid has been dancing since ever she can remember. She teaches and dances at festivals at home in the Kingdom of Fife and has danced across Europe. She likes trying other forms of dance and then mixing them with Highland and SCD - you have been warned!!! Phill Jones Phill danced as lad and then took up playing accordion with one aim: to play for Scottish country dancing. As a teenager he started his own band and has ventured out from his home base in Sheffield across England, then Wales and overseas. Phill's unique style is reflected in the band's sound, which you can all hear on his CD to accompany the Second Sheaf Collection of Scottish country dances, celebrating 50 years of the Sheffield RSCDS branch in 2005. Sue Jennings Sue plays fiddle for Scottish, Morris, Clog and Rapper dancers in a lively exuberant style. It is rumoured that she has been known to compose the odd tune when inspiration or necessity strikes! Sue is prone to attending the odd music session and makes sure her fiddle is the last to be packed away. David Anderson David started playing accordion when it was almost the same size as he was and is now an accomplished band leader; playing for dancing all over Scotland and anywhere else he can transport his accordion. He is in great demand for his invigorating music as well as his sense of humour! Fiona Grant Based in Bristol, Fiona has taken on the task of publicising and encouraging participation in the Holiday, and is responsible for the financial administration of the project. To aid negotiation with Russian bureaucracy, she has created DanceTour as a not-for-profit company whose business is to run dance courses. In her spare time she dances. To see what we got up to on our last trip three years ago, have a look at: http://puffball.demon.co.uk/krasnodar/ If you would like further information, please email me. Lots of unexpected surprises guaranteed on this trip!! Happy holiday, Fiona Bristol UK
>From: "Fiona Grant" <xxxxx@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx.xx.xx> >Reply-To: SCD news and discussion <xxxxxxxxxx@xxxxxxxxxx.xxx> >To: <xxxxxxxxxx@xxxxxxxxxx.xxx> >Subject: DanceTour Russia 2006 >Date: Sun, 5 Mar 2006 13:57:46 -0000 > >DANCETOUR > >Scottish Country Dancing Holiday in Russia > >1-10 September 2006 > >Kuban Scottish Dancers invite you to come and dance with them in Krasnodar >and then dip your tired toes in the warm Black Sea. Situated on the flat, >fertile Kuban steppe, home of the Cossack horsemen, Krasnodar is the >regional capital of the Kuban State. The young and very energetic dance >group started by Ilona Velichko on her return from working in the UK, >dances >in the Palace of Culture, and has appeared on Russian television and at >Festivals of Scottish Music. Just south of the city are the Caucasus >Mountains, shielding the subtropical coast of the Black Sea from the cold >Siberian north winds. There will be time to explore the countryside as well >as share dancing expertise. Ceòl na h’Alba will provide music for all >occasions, and Helen and Ian Russell and Seonaid Anderson will encourage >the >dancers. > >Provisional Programme : >Fri 1 Sept: Arrive Intourist Hotel, Krasnodar Sat 2 Sept: SCD Class or >Market visit, City Tour/ Museums, Informal Dance Palace of Culture Sun 3 >Sept: SCD Class or Art Gallery visit, Cossack Banquet, Russian Music and >Dance Performance Mon 4 Sept: Coach drive to Yamal, on the Black Sea; Laze >at hotel, swim in the Black Sea, Russian Quadrilles/ Soviet Dance Class >Tues >5 Sept: SCD Class or pool, massage, spa, Tea tasting, woodland walks, >Scottish Quadrilles/Shetland Reels/Scottish step dance Wed 6 Sept: All day >trip to Terzihan mountain camp, Mountain walk, Bar-B-Q, Russian bath. >Thur 7 Sept: SCD Class or beach, swim, Beach/boat trip Formal Dinner/ >Cabaret Evening Fri 8 Sept: Travel back to Krasnodar Museum of Aeronautics >and Space Exploration Informal Scottish Country Dance/ Ceilidh items Sat 9 >Sept: SCD Class, Free time Kuban Highland Ball Sun 10 Sept: Kuban River >picnic lunch, Departure > >People and Personalities: > >Ilona Velichko >Trained as a linguist, and a competition ballroom dancer, Ilona came to >Bristol University as a lectrice, and fell in love with Scottish Country >dancing. To encourage her enthusiastic dancing friends back home in >Krasnodar, she dreamed of bringing a Scottish Country Dance Band and >teachers to meet them, and then decided to invite all her dancing friends >from all round the world as well. Ilona has put together the itinerary, and >will be our guide and translator and fixer during the holiday. > >Helen Russell >Helen learned to dance in Scotland, north of Aberdeen, and attended >highland >dance Classes taught by Bobby Watson. She now teaches at the RSCDS Summer >School and has a particular interest in ladies’ step dancing and tutoring >candidates for the RSCDS teacher’s certificate. She is a member of the >RSCDS >Education & Training committee. Helen likes teaching dancing and thinks >that the class ought to have fun! > >Ian Russell >Ian Russell danced as a teenager at Breadalbane Academy in Perthshire, and >became a real enthusiast while at the University of Aberdeen. More >recently >he has been a frequent member of both the Highland and SCD demonstration >teams at the RSCDS Summer School. His main teaching interest lies with >encouraging university students, especially those from overseas, to learn >SCD. > >Seonaid Anderson >Seonaid has been dancing since ever she can remember. She teaches and >dances >at festivals at home in the Kingdom of Fife and has danced across Europe. >She likes trying other forms of dance and then mixing them with Highland >and >SCD - you have been warned!!! > >Phill Jones >Phill danced as lad and then took up playing accordion with one aim: to >play >for Scottish country dancing. As a teenager he started his own band and has >ventured out from his home base in Sheffield across England, then Wales and >overseas. Phill's unique style is reflected in the band's sound, which you >can all hear on his CD to accompany the Second Sheaf Collection of Scottish >country dances, celebrating 50 years of the Sheffield RSCDS branch in 2005. > >Sue Jennings >Sue plays fiddle for Scottish, Morris, Clog and Rapper dancers in a lively >exuberant style. It is rumoured that she has been known to compose the odd >tune when inspiration or necessity strikes! Sue is prone to attending the >odd music session and makes sure her fiddle is the last to be packed away. > >David Anderson >David started playing accordion when it was almost the same size as he was >and is now an accomplished band leader; playing for dancing all over >Scotland and anywhere else he can transport his accordion. He is in great >demand for his invigorating music as well as his sense of humour! > >Fiona Grant >Based in Bristol, Fiona has taken on the task of publicising and >encouraging >participation in the Holiday, and is responsible for the financial >administration of the project. To aid negotiation with Russian bureaucracy, >she has created DanceTour as a not-for-profit company whose business is to >run dance courses. In her spare time she dances. > >To see what we got up to on our last trip three years ago, have a look at: >http://puffball.demon.co.uk/krasnodar/ > >If you would like further information, please email me. >Lots of unexpected surprises guaranteed on this trip!! > >Happy holiday, >Fiona > >Bristol >UK > > > Fiona pleaswe could I have an application formfor the 2006 Rissian dand tour. Thank you You can email it or post it to E McHardy 14 The Paddock, Perceton, Ayrshire, KA11 2AZ. Elizabeth
>From: "Fiona Grant" <xxxxx@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx.xx.xx> >Reply-To: SCD news and discussion <xxxxxxxxxx@xxxxxxxxxx.xxx> >To: <xxxxxxxxxx@xxxxxxxxxx.xxx> >Subject: DanceTour Russia 2006 >Date: Sun, 5 Mar 2006 13:57:46 -0000 > >DANCETOUR > >Scottish Country Dancing Holiday in Russia > >1-10 September 2006 > >Kuban Scottish Dancers invite you to come and dance with them in Krasnodar >and then dip your tired toes in the warm Black Sea. Situated on the flat, >fertile Kuban steppe, home of the Cossack horsemen, Krasnodar is the >regional capital of the Kuban State. The young and very energetic dance >group started by Ilona Velichko on her return from working in the UK, >dances >in the Palace of Culture, and has appeared on Russian television and at >Festivals of Scottish Music. Just south of the city are the Caucasus >Mountains, shielding the subtropical coast of the Black Sea from the cold >Siberian north winds. There will be time to explore the countryside as well >as share dancing expertise. Ceòl na h’Alba will provide music for all >occasions, and Helen and Ian Russell and Seonaid Anderson will encourage >the >dancers. > >Provisional Programme : >Fri 1 Sept: Arrive Intourist Hotel, Krasnodar Sat 2 Sept: SCD Class or >Market visit, City Tour/ Museums, Informal Dance Palace of Culture Sun 3 >Sept: SCD Class or Art Gallery visit, Cossack Banquet, Russian Music and >Dance Performance Mon 4 Sept: Coach drive to Yamal, on the Black Sea; Laze >at hotel, swim in the Black Sea, Russian Quadrilles/ Soviet Dance Class >Tues >5 Sept: SCD Class or pool, massage, spa, Tea tasting, woodland walks, >Scottish Quadrilles/Shetland Reels/Scottish step dance Wed 6 Sept: All day >trip to Terzihan mountain camp, Mountain walk, Bar-B-Q, Russian bath. >Thur 7 Sept: SCD Class or beach, swim, Beach/boat trip Formal Dinner/ >Cabaret Evening Fri 8 Sept: Travel back to Krasnodar Museum of Aeronautics >and Space Exploration Informal Scottish Country Dance/ Ceilidh items Sat 9 >Sept: SCD Class, Free time Kuban Highland Ball Sun 10 Sept: Kuban River >picnic lunch, Departure > >People and Personalities: > >Ilona Velichko >Trained as a linguist, and a competition ballroom dancer, Ilona came to >Bristol University as a lectrice, and fell in love with Scottish Country >dancing. To encourage her enthusiastic dancing friends back home in >Krasnodar, she dreamed of bringing a Scottish Country Dance Band and >teachers to meet them, and then decided to invite all her dancing friends >from all round the world as well. Ilona has put together the itinerary, and >will be our guide and translator and fixer during the holiday. > >Helen Russell >Helen learned to dance in Scotland, north of Aberdeen, and attended >highland >dance Classes taught by Bobby Watson. She now teaches at the RSCDS Summer >School and has a particular interest in ladies’ step dancing and tutoring >candidates for the RSCDS teacher’s certificate. She is a member of the >RSCDS >Education & Training committee. Helen likes teaching dancing and thinks >that the class ought to have fun! > >Ian Russell >Ian Russell danced as a teenager at Breadalbane Academy in Perthshire, and >became a real enthusiast while at the University of Aberdeen. More >recently >he has been a frequent member of both the Highland and SCD demonstration >teams at the RSCDS Summer School. His main teaching interest lies with >encouraging university students, especially those from overseas, to learn >SCD. > >Seonaid Anderson >Seonaid has been dancing since ever she can remember. She teaches and >dances >at festivals at home in the Kingdom of Fife and has danced across Europe. >She likes trying other forms of dance and then mixing them with Highland >and >SCD - you have been warned!!! > >Phill Jones >Phill danced as lad and then took up playing accordion with one aim: to >play >for Scottish country dancing. As a teenager he started his own band and has >ventured out from his home base in Sheffield across England, then Wales and >overseas. Phill's unique style is reflected in the band's sound, which you >can all hear on his CD to accompany the Second Sheaf Collection of Scottish >country dances, celebrating 50 years of the Sheffield RSCDS branch in 2005. > >Sue Jennings >Sue plays fiddle for Scottish, Morris, Clog and Rapper dancers in a lively >exuberant style. It is rumoured that she has been known to compose the odd >tune when inspiration or necessity strikes! Sue is prone to attending the >odd music session and makes sure her fiddle is the last to be packed away. > >David Anderson >David started playing accordion when it was almost the same size as he was >and is now an accomplished band leader; playing for dancing all over >Scotland and anywhere else he can transport his accordion. He is in great >demand for his invigorating music as well as his sense of humour! > >Fiona Grant >Based in Bristol, Fiona has taken on the task of publicising and >encouraging >participation in the Holiday, and is responsible for the financial >administration of the project. To aid negotiation with Russian bureaucracy, >she has created DanceTour as a not-for-profit company whose business is to >run dance courses. In her spare time she dances. > >To see what we got up to on our last trip three years ago, have a look at: >http://puffball.demon.co.uk/krasnodar/ > >If you would like further information, please email me. >Lots of unexpected surprises guaranteed on this trip!! > >Happy holiday, >Fiona > >Bristol >UK > > > Apologies to the list my reply was meant to go as a private response