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Norsk Folkedans Stemne presents Norwegian dance and music following our tasty wild salmon dinner and buffet!
Norsk Folkedans Stemne
PO Box 17099
Seattle WA 98127
FREE PARKING AT AMERICANWEST BANK NEXT DOOR for attendees only
Web page: http://www.seattlestemne.org/
Event:
Wild Salmon dinner buffet and Norwegian folk dancing performances with featured artists Carol Ann Sersland and Steven Petersen with Art Bjorngjeld, Jane and Jeff Anderson, and Bill and Gina Boyd
August 11, Tuesday
6 PM Dinner
7:30 PM Performance followed by public dance with our local Norwegian musicians
Leif Erikson Hall, 2245 NW 57th, Seattle WA 98107
On August 11 at 6 PM enjoy a wild salmon dinner buffet and performances by our featured Midwestern artists Carol Ann Sersland and Steven Petersen with Art Bjorngjeld and local musicians Jane and Jeff Anderson, and Bill and Gina Boyd at Leif Erikson Hall, 2245 NW 57th Street, Seattle WA 98107. The event is sponsored by Leikarringen of Leif Erikson Lodge No. 1 and Norsk Folkedans Stemne. Proceeds benefit the educational programs of Norsk Folkedans Stemne, a 501c3 organization. Afterwards, there is dancing for everyone. Seating is limited so buy your tickets early.
Recently two amazing people in our Scandinavian dance community passed away. We are honoring the contributions of Linelle Reinholdtsen Milatchkov and Ernie Pi this evening. Please bring your photos and memories of these two special people in our dance world.
We are reaching back to our Norwegian, North Dakotan, and Minnesotan roots this year!
Norsk Folkedans Stemne 2015 welcomes our dance and music instructors to our salmon dinner:
Carol Ann Sersland is a Norwegian dance instructor and performer in Minneapolis. She currently teaches two recreational/performing groups: Det Norske Folkedanslaget, an adult Norwegian dance group, and The Fjell og Fjord Norwegian Youth Dancers (ages 4 - 18). Carol has been dancing and performing Norwegian dances all her life. With a father who was a talented dancer from Telemark, she received traditional instruction from an experienced dancer and performer who was proud to share the Norwegian dances he loved, especially Telespringar. They were invited to dance for the Smithsonian Institute's Folklife Festival in Washington, DC, twice. She lived for a year in Telemark getting to know her family, Nordic ski technique (Telemark sving), dance and song. She has taught dance classes at Tapestry Folk Dance Center in the Twin Cities, at the annual Nisswa Folk Music Festival (Nisswa Stamman), and other venues around the Midwest. She was invited by Kari Tauring, performer/educator/author, to collaborate in preparing and leading a series of family workshops in Nordic storytelling, dancing and ancient song circles. These workshops brought people interested in Nordic traditions together to share movement and song using rhythm, breath, and history through stories in a community dance circle. One of her most valuable training courses was an intensive session in which Norwegian dances were infused with new power and energy under the expertise of the instructors from Noregs Ungdomslag. Since then, she has tried to retain that approach and communicate the energy and vitality of the dances in her instruction.
Steven Petersen is a Norwegian dance instructor/performer in the Twin Cities. He is the founder of SVIKT!, a Scandinavian dance performance group of young adult dancers. He currently teaches dance with Carol Ann Sersland in Det Norske Folkedanslaget and Fjell og Fjord. He has taught and performed at Nisswa-Stamman, Norway Day, and various other events in Minnesota. Steven is a high school Geometry teacher and is motivated by the same high-activity, experiential learning driving his dance teaching. Steven emphasizes a philosophy of collaborative learning building connections between dancers and the music. Steven's biggest inspirations come from the great dance teachers at many wonderful workshops: Knut Arne Jacobsen, Carol Ann Sersland, Elise Peters.
Art Bjorngjeld grew up in a musical family, with roots in Norway and North Dakota. His father, aunts, and uncles all played Scandinavian and country music for dances and parties. Art began performing Scandinavian dance music around 1980 after meeting Dick Rees, who introduced Art to the older traditional dances before gammaldans. Art has been a member of LeRoy Larson's Minnesota Scandinavian Ensemble since 1992, and Ole Olson's Oldtime Orkestra (O.O.O.O.) since 2003. Art is the accompanying musician for the Det Norske Folkedanslaget, a Norwegian performing dance group. Art has been to Norway and Sweden to participate in music festivals. He has also performed at music festivals around the country from California to Manhattan, and has been a regular at the Hostfest in Minot, and played on Prairie Home Companion. Along with Char Bostrom, he performs in the duet, Jenta O Ja. He plays 'flat' fiddle and chromatic accordion. Art's passion is to play for dancing, and anything it takes to keep folks on the dance floor is what he'll try to perform.
Jane Johnson Anderson is bringing her button accordion! She is a self taught musician, but music is in her family as her father played fiddle and accordion.
Jeff Anderson has been playing fiddle since the age of 15. Both of his grandfathers were Norwegian-style fiddlers from North Dakota, and he is carrying on the musical traditions of his family. Both he and Jane play with two bands, Nordic Spirit and Nordic Exposure, formed in 1999.
Jeff and Jane released two CDs produced by Phil Williams of Voyager Recordings in Seattle. They attended and studied at Nordleik festivals in both Norway and Sweden, in addition to performing in Norway for dances and concerts. They have been faculty for the Port Townsend Festival of American Fiddle Tunes, as well as, Folklore Village in Dodgeville, WI, at the invitation of Paul Dahlin of the American Swedish Institute. This spring we attended and taught tunes in Montana for the 25th annual Scandinavian Dance and Music Workshop. We have performed at the Astoria Midsummer Festival; the Portland, OR, Jul Fest; various Sons of Norway and Daughters of Norway events in Washington and California and, of course, at Skandia dances and the Seattle Folklife Festival for many years. Jeff has been featured in the nationally distributed Fiddler Magazine and became a lifetime member of the Hardanger Fiddle Association of America in 1987.
Bill and Gina Boyd, both part of Hale Bill and the Bopps who were the featured musicians on Finding Thea, will be playing some of our favorite tunes--some even composed by Bill! Bill is a multi-talented fiddler and learned to play hardingfele in 1983 from Leikarringen's original fiddler, Ingulv Eldegard. Now Bill has been playing 30 years for Leikarringen of Leif Erikson Lodge 2-001, Sons of Norway, and continues developing his skill by both instruction in Norway and here through the many fiddlers who have been at Norsk Folkedans Stemne.Gina has played fiddle with Skandia Folkdance Society for many years. She enjoys singing, too, in English and a variety of Scandinavian languages!
See you at the wild salmon dinner and performances on Tuesday, August 11!
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LocationLeif Erikson Hall (View)
2245 NW 57th Street
Seattle, WA 98107
United States
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