upcoming events. Dance this sunday

1 ---------- Contra:
Sunday, July 3rd (Fushimi Dance) Otonori Hiroba 22
From Ishiguro-san:
"We will have Fushimi Contra at Shimogyô-ku (Kyôto), so a lot of people can participate.
You can walk from Kyoto station to the meeting place, so I really hope people from Osaka and Shiga will come too.
The time is from 14:15 until 17:15, on the 3rd of July (Sunday), at
Shimogyô Iki iki Shimin katsudô Center, on the 3rd floor.
It's 8 minutes on foot from Kyoto station and 7 minutes from Keihan Nanajô station.
There is no parking.
click to see Map

Bal this SUNDAY plus rehearsal at 12:00

1. Romain's french bal is this Sunday from 1:00 to 4:00 pm at the French Institute, as usual.

    Special Guest Dana Antipova will lead Latvian Dances

2. If you would like to help with the Fete de la Musique event  on the 25th, we will be holding a rehearsal starting at 12:00. 

---Next month dances are 

4: July 3rd, Fushimi Contra, 

NEW LOCATION:
下京いきいき市民活動センター 

「shimogyo ikiiki shimin katsudo center」
京都市下京区上之町38番地
38 kami no machi shimogyo-ku 

http://www.its-mo.com/map/mapeng.htm?lat=125941440&lon=488766130&lvl=18

Time to be announced

View Contrakyoto Dance Locations in Kyoto in a larger map

5: French Bal dates:

JULY: NEW DATE: not 3rd Sunday, but Sunday, 10th of July

AUGUST: NO BAL

SEPT: September 25th

great dance, upcoming july 3 new location

We had a wonderful contra yesterday in Fushimi. Lots of dancers, lots of fun! Thanks to everyone who participated. .

Mark your calendars: Next Fushimi Dance is on July 3rd. The time will be the same but there will be a NEW LOCATION, conveniently near kyoto station, to be announced.

(also Romain's french bal on the 19th, Contra Demonstration at the Fete de la musique, both at the French Institute)

Lastly, I really want to share a video I found on youtube. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CG6vVoiFT9c&feature=player_embedded#at=58

It's a very well done history of contra...I really wish I could translate this into japanese (any takers?) because the quality is excellent and I think it would help people understand the evolution of contra and contra music (and how we are part of it). The connection to slavery and african american history is fascinating. Watch the smiles on the faces of the hippie dancers. "the power to create communities, woven together by fiddle and bow"

It's from a series on http://contrausa.com/....and part of a longer video from http://greatmeadowmusic.com/film.html (I am ordering it now, for viewing by all).

Re: contra kyoto in the dancegypsy

Well, the dance is alive, but not so sure it's kicking.
Thanks for getting back to me. I really dont expect many people to come this way, but every so often I get an inquiry, and I thought I ought to make ourselves official, which of course means making it into the dance gypsy....I learned ot dance in Etna and Thetford and Lebanon, and am a many time survivor of the Brattleboro Dawn Dances, though before I came here I was in Portland (the yankee one) , NIce to hear from someone back home.

Anyway, the address question is a bit tricky. 

There are really two dances, one at the Takano Church in kyoto, the other at the Coop in Tamababashi, but it called for historical reasons the Fushimi dance (these are two nearby suburbs to kyoto). Soon, one or the other may or may not be continuing or combining with the other, though the plan is to keep them alive.
The latter is technically a separate offshoot of our original Takano dance, run semi-independently, but anyone from the US is  probably better off going  through me,,.

I assume you want the address of the dances themselves? from a search point of view, the best keywords are contrakyoto, fushimi contra, takano contra, in kyoto or fushimi. tambabashi is unlikely to work.

I can also give you links to maps...all easy to get from my webpage contrakyoto.byethost9.com
or directly http://contrakyoto.byethost9.com/DirectionsAndWhatToBring.html

Takano is on Kitaoji, just west of the Takano Bridge (near Quanat and Izumya department stores). The hall is in the rear of the church. To get directions via Google Maps, click 
http://contrakyoto.byethost9.com/MapTakano.html
The nearest train station is Ichijoji station. The nearest Kyoto City Bus stop is at the Takano Bashi Higashi Zume, on the #8-north(kita), #204, and #206 lines. The nearest Kyoto Bus stop is Takano Bashi Nishi Zume.
The address in japanese order is:
〒６０６-０８６６ zip code
京都市左京区 kyoto-shi sakyo-ku (city, ward)
下鴨東森ヶ前町７  shimogamo higashimorigamaecho 7 (street)
TEL. ＆ FAX. 075-781-1252

For Fushimi:
The location is the Coop-Momoyama Meeting Center in Tamababashi. Go out the west exit of the Kintetsu Tambabashi Station, walk due west until you get to a T, turn south/left and go 4 blocks to the Coop. Go to the rear of the Coop, and go into the Coop building next to a cleaners and go the the second floor. It is directly across the elevator. 
 To get directions via Google Maps, click http://contrakyoto.byethost9.com/MapFushimi.html
I dont actually have a street address for them.

egads...let me know if you need it or anything else..

in any event, I think just having our name website and an email is probably sufficient given our location, not as remote as some places in vermont, but it'll do. At least you can get here from there. :-)

next dance, this sunday. drop on by a spell....

________________________________
From: Greg Scragg <greg@scragg.net>
To: contrakyoto@gmail.com
Sent: Thursday, June 2, 2011 11:36 AM
Subject: contra kyoto in the dancegypsy

David:
    While cleaning up entries in the Dance Gypsy, I discovered the incomplete entry for your dance. I assume you ran into the brick wall of a venue system that doesn't do a decent job on venues outside of North America... sorry about that.
    But I was happy to see (1) a dance series in such an (seemingly) unlikely place, and (2)  a foreign attempt to use the Dance Gypsy. Only other dance currently listed in such a far away place is in Christchurch New Zealand.

Assuming your series is still alive and kicking, I can offer you two helpful ideas/suggestions:
    (1) I can currently add the address for your series manually. If you send me the address, I'll add it in (dances do not appear in most searches unless they have a location (most dancers search near their home or near where they will be)... and alas even when they do appear they don't show even the country)
    (2) This summer I will be extending the venue capability find locations worldwide. (Last month I added the ability to search based on any location worldwide. Hopefully worldwide venues will go as smoothly.
-- Greg Scragg    802.257.4478