If you’re looking for more dance opportunities, here are a few other folk dance groups in the general area. At some of them you’ll find some of the same dances and some of the same people you see in Pasadena.
Nomad Dancers
We dance outdoors in public parks on weekend afternoons. The usual location is Memorial Park, 222 Sierra Madre Blvd, Sierra Madre, CA 91024. The exact day and time varies depending on the season, the weather, and when people can make it. For more information or to be added to the email info list contact Mari at mariwerner4g(at)gmail(dot)com. (Note: a typo in the email address was corrected on Aug 11, 2024. Apologies to anyone who tried to use the erroneous address.)
Foothill International Folk Dancers
Jan and Marc Rayman have an international folk dance group in La Canada Flintridge on Thursday nights. Foothill International Folk Dancers usually dance from 8:00 – 10:00 PM at the Nourishing Spirits Center on the campus of St. George’s Episcopal Church, 808 Foothill Blvd., in La Canada.
The cost is $5. Each evening’s teaching and dancing will be adjusted to the dance experience of the participants. For more information visit http://Foothill.Dance or contact JanRayman(at)charter(dot)net.
Claremont Israeli Dancing
Join us for a wonderful evening of great music, dances and friendships.
Beginners – 7:00 pm – 7:45 pm, followed by more advanced dances and your requests .
The 1st class is FREE
Cost: $8.00 at the door (students: $5)
We enjoy great air-condition and the wonderful wooden floor at The Claremont Masonic Lodge on 272 west 8th street, Claremont, CA 91711 (one block east of Indian Hill). There is parking in the back as well as on 8th and Yale.
With love of life through music, dance, and friendships,
Yael
Valerie’s Ventura Group
Valerie Daley teaches international folk dancing at the Ventura YMCA during the day on Tuesdays and Thursdays. For more information contact her at: dancing.valerie(at)gmail(dot)com
Vintage Israeli Dancing
One Saturday per month, 8:15 p.m. to midnight, $10.00
Danzmundo World Dance & Fitness Studio (DWDFS)
16733 Ventura Blvd., #13, Encino, CA 91436
Check the Website for the exact dates
We attempt to get to all requested Israeli dances, no matter how popular they were when they were new, as long as they were choreographed before 2001. If you want a dance for which you know we don’t have the music, just bring us the CD or tape. The rest of the program will consist of a wide selection of older dances; mostly from the 60’s, 70’s, and 80’s; and we vary what we play each month. The program is all-circle until 9:30, and then a mix of circle dances and short sets of couple dances until closing. Join us in dancing to NONE of the latest hit songs from Israel!