Bulgarian dance workshop with Gergana Panova

Thursday, June 9, 2016, 8–10:45 pm

Park Avenue Congregational Church parish hall, 50 Paul Revere Road at Park Avenue, Arlington Heights, Arlington, Massachusetts

Workshop 8:15–9:45 pm
followed by dancing for all until 10:45 pm with music by Tom Pixton and Yaron Shragai

  • Admission $10
  • FAC members $8
  • Students (aged 8 and up) $5

FAC is pleased to welcome Gergana Panova for her first Boston-area dance workshop. Born in Sofia, Bulgaria, Gergana was a soloist and ballet master with the Filip Kutev Bulgarian National Folk Ensemble. She studied dance ethnology in Bulgaria and received her Ph.D. in dance from Dortmund University in Germany. Her dissertation focused on the social and cultural differences among dance forms in Eastern and Western Europe. She regularly commutes between Bulgaria, where she heads the Ethnochoreology Department at the Bulgarian Academy of Sciences, and Germany, where she is Professor of Dance at Folkwang University in Essen. She teaches dances from all ethnographic regions of Bulgaria with a special emphasis on their traditional, ritual, and contemporary aspects.

Gergana has received a Fulbright Scholarship to pursue intercultural research on Bulgarian dance in the US, as it is done in all communities – including the multi-ethnic communities of recreational international folk dancers. Please join us at the FAC Thursday dance on June 9 for our Bulgarian dance workshop with this highly recommended teacher.

You are in for a real treat! In addition to her ability to light up a room and dazzle with her superb dance prowess, Gergana is also a highly regarded author, performer, and educator. Her excellent grasp of English is an added benefit to her enjoyable teaching style. You will love her! —Joan Hantman, folk dance teacher