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The Society of Folk Dance Historians (SFDH) Idyllwild Folk Dance Workshop
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Information: A California Folk Dance camp (1951-1992).
The Idyllwild Folk Dance Workshop (1951-1992) was founded in California with Elma McFarland at the helm. In 1951 and 1952, only weekend folk dance programs were held at the Idyllwild School of Music and the Arts (ISOMATA). By 1953, the one-week programs were established.
Vivian Woll of San Diego, California, was named to the committee. From 1972 to 1982, she was the chairperson for the camp, with Elma as the Executive Secretary. Vivian also taught at the camp, often re-teaching a neglected dance.
For many years the workshop was held at the Desert Sun School, in pleasant surroundings, with facilities not far from the town of Idyllwild itself. In 1987, the name was changed to the Idyllwild Folk Dance Camp.
The camp moved to the Mesorah Mountain Retreat in 1990, where they had exclusive use of the facilities, including a good wood floor and a new big swimming pool. The camp was on level grounds and still in the San Jacinto Mountains, a short distance from Mountain Center just below Idyllwild.
From 1983 until it ended, Fran and Dave Slater of Los Angeles, California, were the directors of the camp.
Committee members over the years were Bob Brown, Cindy Brown, Marguerite Clapp, Sherry Cochran, Pat Coe, Barbara Jones, Bertie Lieberman, Elma McFarland, Carolyn Mitchill, Nate Moore, Norma Rudin, Dave Slater, Fran Slater, Oscar Spear, Leo Stowers, and Vivian Woll.
Because of a lack of early registrants, and to the "90-days before the event" cancellation clause that the camp site-to-be (the Desert Sun Science Center, a private school) imposed on the Idyllwild staff, the 1993 Idyllwild Folk Dance Camp had to be cancelled. The camp never recovered.
TEACHERS BY YEAR
- 1954 – Vyts Beliajus, Lucile Czarnowski, Edith Stevenson, Millie von Konsky, Vivian Woll, Helen Yost.
- 1955 – Vyts Beliajus, Cathie Cary, Lucile Czarnowski, Larry Eisenberg, Madelynne Greene, Caroline Mitchill, Glenn Stubblefield.
- 1962 – Vyts Beliajus, Madelynne Greene, Alma Heaton.
- 1963 – Vyts Beliajus, Gordon Engler, Madelynne Greene, Millie von Konsky, Grace Nicholes, Yo van Zwel.
- 1964 – Vyts Beliajus, Madelynne Greene, Millie von Konsky, Grace Nicholes, Elizabeth Ulrich, John McKiernan, Vivian Woll, Nate Moore, Elma McFarland.
- 1965 – Vyts Beliajus, Rickey Holden, Grace Nicholes, Millie & Vernon von Konsky, Liesl Barnett, Elma McFarland, Nate Moore, Vivian Woll.
- 1966 – Vyts Beliajus, Madelynne Greene, Gordon Engler, Elma McFarland, Nate Moore, Grace Nicholes, Millie & Von von Konsky, Vivian Woll.
- 1967 – Vyts Beliajus, Madelynne Greene, Grace Nicholes, Millie von Konsky, Liesl Barnett, Elma McFarland, Nate Moore, Vivian Woll.
- 1969 – Vyts Beliajus, Paul & Gretel Dunsing, Carmen Sordo, Gordon Engler, Madelynne Greene, Jan Sejda, Millie and Vern von Konsky, Nate Moore, Elma McFarland.
- 1970 – Vyts Beliajus, Alura Flores de Angeles, Shlomo Bachar, Liesel Barnett, John Filcich, Jan Sejda, Millie and Vern von Konsky, Nate Moore, June Schaal.
- 1971 – Vyts Beliajus, Jan Sejda, Grace Nichols, June Schaal, John Filcich.
- 1972 – Vyts Beliajus, Anatol Joukowsky, John Filcich, Al Pill, Millie and Vern von Konsky, Nate Moore, Bob Brown, Elma McFarland, Vivian Woll.
- 1973 – Anatol Joukowsky, John Hancock, Al Pill, Liesl Barnett, John Filcich, Bob Brown, Vivian Woll.
- 1974 – Alura Flora de Angeles, Vyts Beliajus, John Hancock, John Filcich, C. Stewart Smith, Liesl Barnett, Bob Brown, Vivian Woll.
- 1975 – Vyts Beliajus, Gordon Tracie, John Filcich, Jan Sejda, Bob Brown, Vivian Woll.
- 1976 – Dick Crum, Ya'akov Eden, Vyts Beliajus, John Filcich, Helen Lenyk, Glenn Weber, Bob Brown, Vivian Woll.
- 1977 – Vyts Beliajus, John Filcich, Bora Gajicki, Bob Brown, Vivian Woll.
- 1977 – Vyts Beliajus, Bob Brown, Alura Flores de Angeles, Ya'akov Eden, Bora Gajicki, John Filcich, Vivian Woll.
- 1978 – Femke van Doorn, C. Stewart Smith, John Pappas.
- 1979 – John Pappas, Carol & Edward Goller, Ya'akov Eden, Bernardo Pedere, Glenn Weber.
- 1980 – Mary Judson, Billy Burke, Dave Slater.
- 1981 – Nelda Drury, Ya'akov Eden, Morry Gelman, Steve Kotansky.
- 1982 – Morry Gelman, Marcus Holt Moskoff, Tom Roncević, Ann McBride, Dorothy Daw, Dave Slater.
- 1983 – Sunni Bloland, Una O'Farrell, John Pappas, Rosie Penñ.
- 1984 – Sunni Bloland, Tom Bozigian, Jas Dziewanowski, Graham Hempel, Yves Moreau, Vickie Maheu.
- 1985 – Daniel Sundstetd Beal, Joe Graziosi, Jaap Leegwater, Steve Kotansky, Sherry Cochran.
- 1986 – Yaakov Eden, Michael Ginsburg, Glenn Nielsen, Elinor Vandergrift, Dick Oakes.
- 1987 – Nicolaas Hilferink, Bora Özkök, Tibor Toghia, Dick Oakes.
- 1988 – Bo Peterzen, Jaap Leegwater, Michael Ginsburg, Jerry Helt.
- 1989 – Andor Czompo, Jerry Helt, Atanas Kolarovski, Ahmet Luleçi.
- 1990 – Jerry Helt<, Nicolaas Hilferink, Steve Kotansky, Yves Moreau, Eleanor Vandegrift.
- 1991 – Ya'akov Eden, Morry Gelman, Jaap Leegwater, Richard Powers, Slobodan Slović.
- 1992 – Michael Ginsburg, Jerry Helt, Nicolaas Hilferink, Ahmet Lüleci.
- 1993 – Jerry Duke, Paul Ginis, Thea Huijgen, Jerry Helt, Jaap Leegwater CANCELLED!.
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