You’re all invited to Foggy City Dancers’ big Spring Dance and Silent Auction, California Twirl Into Spring!
As you know, our Annual Silent Auction is the biggest fund raising event of the year for Foggy City, and this year is no exception. We will have lots of fabulous prizes!
And of course, the always wonderful and entertaining Deborah Carroll-Jones will be calling Mainstream, Plus, and an Advanced star tip.
The bears are coming, the bears are coming! Yes, with Presidents’ Day Weekend coming up in February, it’s time once again for our annual outreach and hoe-down, Squares for Bears! with Caller Harlan Kerr.Come on down to the International Bear Rendezvous’ host hotel, the Holiday Inn Golden Gateway, located at 1500 Van Ness Ave. We have a nice sized room downstairs for our exclusive use for our event.
What: Squares For Bears
When: 16 February 2008, 10:00am - Noon
Where: Holiday Inn Golden Gateway
1500 Van Ness Avenue
Why: Because the bears are always a rolicking good time!
Who: Contact Steve Huggins or Michael Golden for more information.
As we enter our 25th year, we wanted to take the time to share with you video and photographs from years gone by. These two video clips are from founding member, Steve Browning, of the Foggy City Dancers’ Performance Team at the 1986 IAGSDC Convention held in San Francisco. They are of the same performance, but split into two parts.
Congratulations to all the new students who graduated the Mainstream class this past Saturday at our 24th Anniversary Dance: Angi Lewis, Bert Bloom, Brandon Lee, Charlie Dieterich, David Boyd, David Huffman, David Marlowe, Ed Buckley, Gary Borgstedt, Gwynn Goodner, Jed Johnson, Johnny Manzon-Santos, and Scott Weprin.
Three Foggy Citizens were eulogized at the Square Dancer’s Memorial Quilt in Denver, Colorado.
Tom Valdez. Long-time Class Co-ordinator and deserving recipient of The Red Boot Award.
Fred Papapietro. Another Class Co-ordinator, affectionately known as “Freddy Crocker” in recognition of his weekly donations of baked goods, and for his 1990s Foghorn recipe column.
Donald Wescoat. Nurse, musician and composer, Donald—nicknamed “Bullseye” for his distinctive choreography that returned dancers home without a need to promenade—served as FCD Club Night caller. In 1996, Bullseye Wescoat composed Squares in the Circle. It is frequently performed during Memorial Tips.
Passing Through
Trevor Hailey. Foggy City dancer and local celebrity famed for her walking tours of the Castro neighborhood.
Layne Ethington. Performance Team member and “The Voice of Foggy City.” Before there was e-mail, there was the FCD Hotline where callers could hear Layne announce upcoming events. Donald Wescoat later replaced Layne as the Hotline announcer.
Lee Griffiths arrived in Denver early to attend the caller school prior to the start of the convention weekend.
“Like most of the beginners, I’d gone there simply to find out if I might enjoy calling; I’d thought I might one day like to teach, and really considered equipping myself for that to be my main goal. Yet I came away totally enthused about calling anything and everything, as and when I find the opportunities and have developed enough to do so. The teaching staff quite simply inspired me with their passion, talent and commitment.
“Twenty-seven hours of classes in three days is quite an intense experience, the more so because you’re there precisely to be given as much feedback as you can get, to go away knowing what you’ll need to do to become a better, more experienced caller.
“Since Caller School, I’ve been very fortunate to have been offered a number of guest tips by other local callers. My goals are to really get into the nitty-gritty of sight calling the various programs (scary!) and slowly work up to being able to call my first full night. Fingers crossed!”
Last year, we were “assaulted” by Cupid’s bow and arrows. Who knows what kind of crazy antics we’ll have this year at our Valentine’s Day Dance!
