Dollars for dancing are still available. Don’t wait any longer. Dreaming of dancing this summer but worried about the costs? Our Festival can still offer you financial help. Contact us livelyfoundation@sbcglobal.net and let us know you want to study, create, perform. The artist/teachers are eager to help you dance your best dances. The Festival opens on August 11; email us now. 
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FULL DAY OF DANCE© CLASS SCHEDULE NOW
FULL DAY OF DANCE© is the unique, amazing innovation of International Dance Festival@Silicon Valley. The greatest dance experiences for everyone from pros to beginners. Take something you already know and love AND try something completely new to you! Never danced before? This is your time. A professional ballerina who stays up late watching Fred Astaire & Ginger Rogers tap? This is your chance to give it a try. Supportive, enthusiastic teachers. You’ll be in a class with all different levels. Someone might be a complete beginner at classical Indian dance but terrific in tap. Or — a total complete beginner–you name it; it’s all possible. You can take one, some, or all six classes. The price per class reduces with each added class. No special outfits or shoes required. Even for tap, wear a shoe that will stay on your feet; you can learn the rhythms & steps without taps on your soles, but your true soul will be dancing!!! Here’s the class schedule. Doors open at 8:30 a.m. Save time & pay in advance. Information: call 650/969-4110 or see us at facebook/international dance festival silicon valley and at facebook/The Lively Foundation.
9:00-10:00 Pilates mat (bring a towel or mat if you can); 10:15-11:30 Dunham technique; 11:45-1 p.m. tap; 1-1:30 Lunch Break; 1:30-2:30 Line Dancing with Etta; 2:45-4:00 Salsa; 4:15-5:30 Manipuri, an Indian classical dance. Prices: single class $25/all six $84–in between reduces per class with each added class.
Scholarships Available to Dance at Festival!
GET SOME DOUGH!! 
Financial aide is still available to help you attend the International Dance Festival@Silicon Valley. Funds are available NOW. Do not miss this great opportunity! Let us know of your desire to attend as soon as you can. In addition to scholarship aide, IDF@SV offers more ways to reduce your costs: FREE homestays in lovely homes only a few blocks away from the Festival center for all classes and events; bring another dancer to the Festival, and you both will get a discount; members of Dancers’ Group get a 10% discount on all classes and events.This is YOUR time to dance. It is YOUR time to perform in a real, public concert on a program with acclaimed professionals. It is YOUR chance to create a dance to be performed on the Festival Concert. Come dance with us!!
Summer’s Here! Time to Dance!
Summer is here! There’s the Solstice Sun rising at Stonehenge; it must be summer and time to dance. Come to the International Dance Festival@Silicon Valley, stretch your technique, find your center, explore your inner rhythms, let it all out: DANCE! The artists are waiting to teach you their choreography and hone your technique. They want to bring out your best in an atmosphere that encourages you to shine. Now’s the time. Don’t wait. Scroll down for post with registration links. Send your registration and then send your whole self for a glorious week of dance. It’s crowned with the Festival Performance, a real performance for a real public, and a program featuring the guest artist/teachers/choreographers and YOU!!! Everyone is eager to meet you and watch you fly.
International Dance Festival@Silicon Valley: The Artist/Teachers!
Here they are: dance artists who will open your dancer heart and help you to reach the heights of your dancing! Leslie Arbogast, Leanne Rinelli, Leslie Friedman will lead the M2F (Monday to Friday!) classes in Dunham technique, Salsa, and Contemporary tech and composition. On The Full Day of Dance© they are joined by Sohini Ray, teaching Manipuri classical Indian Dance, Etta Walton teaching Etta’s Electric Lines, Audreyanne Delgado-Covarrubias teaching tap, Amity Johnson teaching Pilates mat. Give yourself a chance to dance! August 11-17. It’s here before you know it; register now to get your Early Bird Discounts. Apply now for scholarship aide. Scroll down a couple of entries to get links for the forms. Then: come on and DANCE!
Questions? email livelyfoundation@sbcglobal.net
International Dance Festival@Silicon Valley: Beauty & Fun in Mountain View
Live your dreams. DANCE. You can do it! Why come to Mountain View, California to dance? IDF@SV offers you the finest artists who want you dance your best. Teaching artists who want your artistry to shine. (SCROLL DOWN TO ENTRY BELOW THIS ONE FOR REGISTRATION FORMS.)And, Mountain View has it all, that’s why. Castro St. is the charming main street downtown. It is lined with bookstores, cafes, and restaurants. Not sure what to eat? You can choose from Chinese, Japanese, Thai, Mediterranean, Italian, fish, burgers, vegetarian, & lots more, all in one walkable area. Need to grab a quick salad between classes? That’s available, too, just a block away. That block is actually Pioneer Park. It has beautiful trees, grassy places and benches to sit on, an awesome Japanese garden of plants and rocks donated by Mountain View’s sister city. The Mountain View Masonic Center, home for the International Dance Festiva@Silicon Valley, is next to the park and the Mountain View Public Library, a great place to read and relax or use one of their computers. Worried you’ll miss big city life? Mountain View is the world headquarters of Google. Microsoft, Apple, and dozens and dozens of amazing companies right here. In the Starbucks one block from the Festival Headquarters, you’ll see computer wizards working on the newest biggest thing. See the Pacific Ocean? It’s just over the mountains or down the highway to Santa Cruz, Monterey, Carmel. Take a train, bus, or car to San Francisco–when you have time. You’ll be dancing your heart out every day & performing new works for a dance loving public on Sunday on a program with the acclaimed artists who were teaching you their work all five days before. Don’t miss this chance! Live your dreams. Dance.
picture: Leslie Friedman, Artistic Director
International Dance Festival@Silicon Valley, Registration Links
Register now for your special dance experience, Summer, 2014. Don’t wait. Early registrants get lower, Early Bird prices and assurance that they can get in the classes before they are filled. Deadline for Early Bird prices for both the M2F workshops© and the classes of Full Day of Dance© is June 30. Deadline for scholarship application is also June 30. From July 1 on, applicants pay regular price. Registrants after Aug.4 are welcome, pay a slightly higher rate. Walk-ins welcome for Full Day of Dance©. Here are three links for your registration: Registration Form, Additional Information, Scholarship Application.
https://www.dropbox.com/s/c4qwe4avoozhdgo/IDF-SVreg2014.pdf
https://www.dropbox.com/home?select=AddInfoIDF-SV2014.pdf
https://www.dropbox.com/s/cnaq14xcsfe0q4k/Scholarship2014.pdf
International Dance Festival-Silicon Valley: Register Now!
Registration for IDF-SV, 2014, is open. This post offers a brief summary of costs for the Festival which runs from August 11 to August 17, 2014, at the Mountain View Masonic Center, Mountain View, CA 94041. Please watch this blog for further news and details. Please contact The Lively Foundation, livelyfoundation@sbcglobal.net, for more information and questions. Monday-Friday workshops: Early Bird Fee is $280. Registration after July 1st is $325. M-F workshops include Leslie Arbogast teaching Dunham Dance, tech & repertory; Leslie Friedman teaching Contemporary Dance, tech & repertory; Leanne Rinelli teaching Salsa, tech & repertory. Dancers taking the M-F workshops may perform in the Festival Concert, Aug. 17, on the same program with the artist teachers. They will also be offered opportunities to create their own work.
Registration for Full Day of Dance© also offers Early Bird discounts. Single class $30/$25–all 6 classes $84/$72. Cost per class reduces with each added class. Master Teachers/classes include: Amity Johnson, Pilates mat; Audreyanne Delgado-Covarrubias, Tap; Etta Walton, Electric Lines; Leslie Arbogast, Dunham Dance; Leanne Rinelli, Salsa; Sohini Ray, Manipuri classical Indian dance. The Open Master Classes welcome dancers of all levels and encourage dancers to try something new. An advanced Tap Dancer will enjoy trying Manipuri even though he or she will be a beginner in that class. An accomplished Salsa dancer can try Dunham Dance and experience something wonderful in movement and rhythm which is entirely new to him or 
her. Beginners and professionals: all are welcome and all have a great time at Full Day of Dance©.
(You might wonder why the copyright sign after the title Full Day of Dance©. It’s because even though it has only had two seasons, it was such a great idea that it has already been copied by another company and Festival. Accept no substitutes!! Come to the original; you will remember why you love to dance.
pictures: top, Amity Johnson; mid,Sohini Ray; L-R: Leanne Rinelli, Leslie Arbogast.
International Dance Festival-Silicon Valley Wins Praise
Dancers who have participated in IDF-SV continue to praise their great experiences. Vanessa Nudd danced in Full Day of Dance© in the first season and came back to do the Mon-Fri workshops, in 2013. She wrote these comments to Leslie Friedman, director and founder of the Festival. Leslie taught Tech, Rep, and Comp/Improv, 2013.
“You are an inspiring teacher– I learned a HUGE amount in our time together. Thanks so much for putting on this amazing event each year and inspiring new ( or dormant ) dancers to get off their butts!”
Vanessa has already signed up for the Festival. If you are a dancer who wants to dance, this is the Festival for you. Stretch your technique, try something new, perform for a real audience in a professional, public concert. Contact The Lively Foundation today. livelyfoundation@sbcglobal.net
pictures: Vanessa Nudd working on her site specific improv project, IDF-SV, 2013.
Festival Dancers Praise the International Dance Festival-Silicon Valley
Dancers from the first two Festival seasons have written to praise the Festival and their experiences. Here’s a quote from Chelsea Zawadski, dancer from Boston:
I will never forget my experience at the festival. I got to meet so many friendly and talented people during the festival throughout a week packed of full of dance classes, rehearsals, and performing. It was an experience I gained so much from and will never forget!
Best wishes for all you do in 2014! Chelsea”
Come to IDF-SV, III, this summer and have a great dancing experience like Chelsea’s.
Picture: Village Dances, Part I, Festival Concert, 2012. Chelsea is the dancer on the left.